About us

Barry Kruger

Director and Principal Consultant

Barry is an expert in the strategic implementation of innovative solutions and technologies to effect service transformation across both public and private sectors. He has delivered sector-wide, enterprise-level change programmes across the education, health, third and private sectors, recent projects involving the British Medical Association, the Church of England, Sharjah Museums Department (in the UAE), EU Development Funded business incubator programmes in the UK, the Prime Minister’s Office in Dubai; as well as technology-enabled sector transformation across children’s services and the schools sector in Egypt.

Barry has a strong track record in public sector services provision, on both ‘sides of the fence’ as a consultant and senior manager, with 14 years in government and agencies, and 5 years at the BBC, much of this at senior management level, with board level accountabilities.

Barry is a recognised global expert in learning technologies, and for the last six years has worked on major edtech initiatives around the world, including the Smart Learning Programme for the UAE Prime Minister’s Office, and the Education 2.0 programme for Egypt’s Ministry of Education.


Our mission

Our mission here at Progressive is to deliver you business return through efficient and effective digital strategy. It's as simple as that. Whether it is online marketing campaigns, knowledge-based business systems or in-house staff learning systems, we will focus on the detail, examining the data, analysing business processes and diagnosing systems issues. Our approach is:


- evidence-based
- focused on data analysis, and diagnostics
- based on thorough testing
- emphasising regular communication and detailed reporting
- quality assurance : editorial excellence
- accessible and inclusive

Our philosophy

Our philosophy is to avoid needless costs where possible, so we focus on open source technologies, which are licence free, leaving you, the customer, in control. We are not aligned to any major software vendor, and when we recommend a particular development approach, it will only be after in-depth requirement gathering and directly suited to your needs.

Equality & diversity

We recognise that people who use our services come from diverse backgrounds,
with varying experiences and needs. We aim to ensure that equality and
diversity is at the heart of all we do, across all the services we provide,
and as an employer. We believe in equality for all, and that every person
has the right to be treated fairly and with dignity and respect regardless of gender,
disability, ethnicity, religion and belief, gender reassignment,
sexual orientation, age, or pregnancy or maternity, marriage and civil partnerships.
We will develop and deliver services that will help to overcome discrimination
and disadvantage to enable people to achieve their full potential. We will:

- develop and deliver our services to ensure they are inclusive and accessible to all.
- ensure diversity is embedded within our mission, vision and values and integral to all we do.
- commit to a zero tolerance approach to discrimination and/or harassment.
- regularly monitor the progress we make in implementing our approach to equality
& diversity as part of our commitment to continuous improvement.