About Us
Inspire Business Transformation
Founded by Tariq and Andrew, Inspire Business Transformation is built on a 20-year professional partnership grounded in mutual respect, shared values, and a passion for driving meaningful change. With a combined wealth of experience across multiple industries, we collaborate to deliver sustainable, high-impact business solutions tailored to the unique challenges and goals of each organisation we work with.
Our Vision
Our vision is simple and clear: to deeply understand what our clients truly need and support them in evolving their businesses. We do this by passing on our knowledge, skills, and insight — guiding mindset shifts that empower individuals to lead with clarity, solve problems with purpose, and unlock their full potential. Whether we are coaching a senior leader one-on-one, guiding teams through cultural transformation, or implementing lean operational systems, our mission is always the same
To deliver goal-centred, measurable outcomes and build lasting capability that remains long after our work is done.
Our Values
Progress through people: We believe transformation starts with people — their mindset, their behaviour, and their growth.
Action drives change: We champion purposeful action over theory and use structured thinking to navigate complexity.
Growth is possible for everyone: We believe every individual has the capacity to evolve, learn, and lead with confidence.
The most rewarding part of our work is seeing people grow — not just in skill, but in belief. Because when growth becomes cultural, and performance becomes sustainable, that’s where real transformation happens.
Andrew Thomas, B.Eng
Certified Level 7 Executive coach and Mentor
Business Partner for Strategy Deployment / Board Director
Experienced Operations Excellence professional with a people centric view of leadership, performance impact and results
Locations: UK and globally available
Industry Specialism: Performance improvements, leadership and change in industries including Modular construction, Textiles manufacturing, PCB automated manufacturing, Aerospace and defense specialist, Vast knowledge and experience in CNC parts manufacturing and interim management
Andrew has a varied career in manufacturing and operations management. For 15 years Andrew has focussed on delivering operational excellence to manufacturing plants in the UK and supporting initiatives in Europe. Delivering long term change in the form of large scale transformational operational change initiatives for Global partners, to scalable project-based initiatives for performance improvement. Andrew has a people centric approach which enables his knowledge to be passed on to all levels of leadership to sustain long term positive change.
Andrew has a passion for strategic goal setting and change management, backed up with hands on experience in strategy execution and tracking.
Andrew has at his disposal all the operational excellence, ‘Lean techniques’ and tools to implement sustainable change, with a growth mindset for organisations and the development of leaders to sustain the improvements
Andrew has worked predominantly in the highly regulated world of aerospace and defence in roles as:
- Business owner
- Consultant
- Coach and mentor
- Opex program implementation consultant
- Interim operations management
- Safety leader for positive change
- Quality improvement implementation
In these varied roles Andrew has always contributed positively to the people and the organisations future goals and strategies, he has always endeavoured to leave an organisations people with more knowledge and will to perform better each day in a continuous improvement cycle.
Andrew wants to continue to pass on his expertise and knowledge to enable people to out perform their current expectations using coaching/mentoring and training where needed to develop leaders of the future
Accomplished business turnaround exec for supply chain capacity growth and increased profit
Locations: UK, European Union and USA
Industry knowledge: Aerospace, Medical, Metals and Electronic manufacture
Tariq has extensive experience with manufacturing sites across the world to focus them on business improvement. Developing businesses to adopt new/modern ways of working is where he can have an immediate impact on your business.
“It’s imperative to couple long-term vision with tactical know how and this is always a fine balancing act. Driven by innovative and entrepreneurial skills I like to land businesses with a platform for success. I believe we can build cultural aspects within people to help propel business to achieve
excellence”.
Tariq has worked in industry with some of the finest partners. Here is a small selection of his industrial experience:
£20M (Eaton MEDC) annual sales
£80M (Doncaters Ross & Catherall) annual sales
£200M (Parker Meggitt Polymers and Composites GBU) annual sales
£300M (Morgan Advanced Materials GBU) annual sales
Working as the Senior Operations Excellence Director at Morgan’s Technical Ceramics GBU, Tariq has released the potential for 16 P&L manufacturing sites by implementing a reporting methodology which walks from the Production floor through tiered levels to the President. Tariq developed and implemented the Morgan Advanced Materials Business System for the GBU.
Tariq enjoys reading, listening to podcasts and volunteers his spare time to his local education authority.
Tariq Zaman, MSc
Business Partner for Strategy
Deployment / Co-Founder