ABOUT
OPERATOR EXPERIENCE. TRANSFORMATION THINKING.
PRACTICAL DELIVERY.
ReBar is a founder-led transformation advisory built around senior operator experience and practical delivery.
We work with organisations facing complex commercial, operational and transformation challenges, bringing together strategy, customer, operating model, data and technology, investment and execution to turn ambition into measurable change.
Our deepest experience is in retail and complex multi-site businesses, but the principles travel: understand where value sits, make the choices clear, organise around them and make the change happen.
About Me.
RICHARD BONNER
More than 25 years on both sides of the transformation equation.
Richard is a commercial and transformation leader whose career combines frontline operating and P&L leadership with enterprise-scale transformation. His experience spans John Lewis Partnership, Marks & Spencer, English Heritage and ReBar, leading businesses, major investment programmes and complex transformation from strategy through to implementation.
That includes commercial strategy, customer and proposition, operating models, organisation, data and technology, estate and capital, space and range, performance improvement and large-scale programme delivery.
The common thread is simple: turning complex business problems into choices people can understand, execute and measure.
Experience at Scale
£1bn
Investment & Transformation
190
Matrix Leadership
£5m
Data, Systems & AI
1,200+
Projects per annum
5,000
People across 450 sites
10.2m sq ft
Retail Space Transformation
£100m pa
Programme Leadership
£5bn
Commercial Scale
£3m
Operating Model Change
WHY REBAR?
OPERATOR PERSPECTIVE
We have lived with the consequences of the decisions.
Experience running businesses, owning P&Ls and leading operational teams means recommendations have to work outside the meeting room.
STRATEGY TO EXECUTION
The PowerPoint isn't the transformation.
We connect strategic choices to operating models, investment, programmes, implementation and measurable outcomes.
INDEPENDENT THINKING
Start with the problem, not a house solution.
Evidence first. Understand the economics, challenge the assumptions and build the answer around what the organisation actually needs.
THE RIGHT EXPERTISE
Small core. Broader capability when required.
ReBar works independently or brings together specialist consulting, technology and delivery partners where they add genuine value.
How We Work
Diagnose
Understand the problem, economics, customer and constraints
Mobilise
Align leadership, resources, governance and routes to delivery
Choose
Make the critical strategic and commercial choices to drive the transformation
Deliver
Turn the plan into practical change and measurable outcomes
Design
Build the proposition, operating model, roadmap and business case
Embed
Transfer capability and make the change part of how the business operates
