Bourne Leisure - A cultural journey

This article on how Bourne Leisure navigated organisational change includes:

• Insights into how one of the UK’s biggest leisure companies merged with a company 3 times their size and maintained their culture

• Information on how they changed the way they worked in order to better service their customers’ needs

• Stories of how Bourne Leisure have managed to retain their original values even now the next generation of leaders are in the organisation

Bourne Leisure are the largest provider of holidays and holiday home ownership in the UK. In the last 15 years they’ve been on quite a journey, including taking over a major competitor, becoming more customer orientated and changing their board structure.

We spoke to their CEO to see if their culture has changed in this period and discussed how they engaged their employees during the large changes they went through.

By reading Bourne Leisure – A cultural journey, you will:

• Get top tips on how to handle large scale mergers

• Understand how you can have a succession plan in place that will maintain the original culture and values of an organisation

• Learn about how an organisation can set an inspiring vision for their people and execute against it