Take your thinking outside
Over the years, through trial and error, I have found my thinking ‘space’ and continue to find inspiration outside, with the absolute appreciation that my desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. This is why I invite entrepreneurs, innovators, business leaders and executive teams to ditch the boardroom and join me on adventures that might just change their thinking.
Together we explore wild places, undertake shared challenges and use tried and tested techniques to develop clear-sighted entrepreneurial thinking.
It is time to do business differently. Take your thinking outdoors and start Outside Thinking.
Garry is an outdoor innovator. Outside thinking is powerful stuff. Enjoy this fantastic journey!
João Perre Viana
The Creativity Factor — finalist, Business Book of the Year Awards ’23
I’ve experienced, first hand, how his approach and methodology can be truly transformational. His book is a fantastic way to unlock your innate creativity.
Lee Mears, Partner and Executive Leadership Coach for Preston Associates and former England and British & Irish Lions rugby player
My book uncovers the importance of creativity in business success and explains how you can use time spent outdoors to fully harness your creative potential. I’m thrilled that it has been selected from over 300 titles and shortlisted for the Business Book of the Year Awards 2023.
Order your copy or find out more ../
Walk and talk with me
My trips range from the ambitious (a week with your team in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa perhaps), the luxurious (exploring the Tramuntana and eating Michelin-starred food in Mallorca) to the more manageable (a half-day one-to-one in the hills of the UK or perhaps as part of your conference or strategy days) and are all tailored to suit your needs. First step is for us to chat, me to listen and figure out what might work for you.
Current portfolio
CCO, Earswitch | Revolutionising ear-phone technology through patented handsfree control, real-time biometrics and communication from one sensor.
Future of Work Consultant, T-CUP Studios | T-CUP are passionate about helping people thrive in their daily lives.
Executive Chairman, Kinderly | Working with the fantastic Kinderly team to scale up and disrupt the early years education market in the UK and MENA region.
Background
My 50’s: Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Teaching Fellow in Entrepreneurship at University of Bath.
My 40’s: Scaling and then selling Teachit. Running a boutique management consultancy. Masters and Research Fellow at University of Bristol.
My 30’s: Co-founded an innovative chain of specialist cookshops that eventually had 42 sites, and co-founded Teachit, one of the earliest and fastest growing innovators in online education.
My 20’s: Director of International Advertising for a $1.5BN US company that made 14 acquisitions across Europe, managing a sales operation generating over $50M in revenue.
Key tenets
1.
Realise
To be innovative or entrepreneurial is to be creative.
2.
Understand
Creativity is generated best through abstraction and distraction.
3.
Practice
Walking outdoors is a sure-fire way to generate creative thinking.
4.
Innovate
Outside Thinking can be truly transformational for you and your business.
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Defining Garry Pratt is not easy… an Academic, Entrepreneur, Archaeologist, Mountaineer or Author can all be fitting. The reality is however that whilst Garry is all those things, he is also a genuinely nice guy … that time spent with him will not only be beneficial for your personal wellbeing but it will be invaluable for your business.
Garry guided myself and a group of our business on a short 2-day tour where we explored the best that Wales had to offer. Whilst it never felt like a ‘work day’, Garry carefully navigated our team over the course of two days using the natural landscape to either ‘broaden our horizons’ on the tops of Pen y Fan where there literally were no boundaries, or he helped us focus on mindfulness techniques when we were enclosed by the Black Mountain Forest. Pure genius and genuinely transformational.
We often talk about ‘return of investment’ when it comes to business. Putting a price on having a more motivated and aligned self-aware team who have learnt some new life skills and since our walk come up with some amazing ideas resultant from the discussions and process that will stand the test of time is truly priceless.
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— Edwyn van Rooyen, CEO, T-CUP
Garry Pratt | Outside Thinking 