Jon Armstrong

Founding Partner Changeway

Jon’s career in manufacturing encompasses the electronic, automotive and industrial sectors. At age 27, he was given P&L responsibility for 800 employees across multiple locations. He trained in Japan and joined Simpler Consulting after turning around a failing and heavily unionised engineering business within 18 months. Jon made Partner within three years, then served as Managing Director of the UK, Indian and Singaporean legal entities. Over his 15-year consulting career, Jon has coached Leadership teams in multiple industries and locations worldwide. His work in the RAF Fast Jets programme contributed to savings of over £1B as reported by the National Audit Office. His work with private equity resulted in exposure to the M&A space, conducting due-diligence and designing transformation programmes to create value. Jon was one of the leadership team who sold Simpler to IBM in 2016. He served three more years at Partner level in IBM UK where he focussed on helping clients understand the potential to simplify and automate their processes and continued to help clients design and implement large scale transformation programmes. Jon holds a BSc (Hons) in Manufacturing Engineering and an MBA.