The core duo of The Smart Work Company are Anne Marie McEwan and John Rattray: Anne Marie is the  smart work and work-based learning specialist, and John designs the learning materials.

Anne Marie McEwan

Anne Marie passionately believes that businesses are wasting too many of their employees’ talents, intelligence and creativity. This is not intentional; keeping the boat afloat and pointed in the direction it should be going, while dodging the rock that has just come into view, is hard enough.

Nevertheless, businesses do need to raise their game in managing people and processes, to adapt to local and global workplace trends. People’s energy, capabilities and willingness to contribute can no longer be squandered in the face of increasingly challenging global business conditions. It is her mission to help hard-pressed businesses to rise to the challenge.

Anne Marie is a Visiting Fellow at Kingston University Business School. In partnership with the business school, she works with the Moscow Academy of National Economy on the International Senior Executive Strategic Master’s Programme. She helped set up this innovative work-based learning programme for director-level executives in Moscow, and continues working with a number of the executives as a personal learning consultant.

She also co-leads, with Dr Marie Puybaraud, Director of Workplace Innovation, the Johnson Controls Global Mobility Network, a learning network for senior IT, FM and HR executives who want to explore how they can best adapt to global workplace trends.

John Rattray

John has long and varied experience of engineering design in the oil and gas industry, where he supplies his services through his company, Engfx. He is currently extending his graphic design and animation skills beyond  engineering and now works with Anne Marie to create learning materials for The Smart Work Company.