Mike Goggin

Managing Director - Transformation & Growth
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Alongside his consulting role in the UK, Mike works across the global Steer family to support our growth and effectiveness in delivering value to clients.

Mike has almost 30 years of professional transport experience, about half of which has been in consultancy at Steer.  Outside of consultancy Mike’s career has been in railroads, and he led policy and strategy for the UK’s railway stations as Network Rail’s Director of Stations & Customer Service, led delivery of the network as a Route Operations Manager and drove performance improvement as  Train Operator, Regional and National Performance Manager. 

Mike’s consulting experience includes:

  • high profile industry and strategic reviews (e.g. Williams Rail Review, Shaw Report, Mexican infrastructure development, Brazilian rail regulation) 
  • readiness reviews, major programme assurance and lesson learnt exercises for major change programmes
  • advising on the detailed design and practical implementation of change in the railway sector for UK Department for Transport, Great British Railways Transition Team and Network Rail
  • bid leadership and evaluation for transport services in rail and LRT
  • policy and strategy development for stations (social value of stations for the UK’s Rail Delivery Group, station management model advice to Network Rail).

On behalf of our global Executive team, Mike also sponsors our pan-company efforts on Research & Innovation and is accountable for our global Marketing team.

Articles and insights by this expert

24 Mar 2025

Beyond the rails: Why we need to keep the entrepreneurial spirit alive in an era of nationalisation

From AI and decarbonisation to customer experience, private sector innovation still has a crucial role to play.

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04 Jun 2024

FRA CID Program: The National Perspective

Discover how the FRA's CID program is revolutionizing US passenger rail.

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26 Feb 2024

Part 2: Projects, decisions, and future challenges with ORR

In part two of our conversation with John, we dive into projects, decisions, and future challenges that are shaping the rail industry.

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06 Feb 2024

Part 1: Challenges and dynamics of rail regulation with the ORR

In this special two-part episode of ‘Voices of the Industry’, we are joined by John Larkinson, the CEO of the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).

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29 Nov 2023

On track to Net Zero: The Amtrak journey with Dennis Newman

In this podcast episode, ‘Voices of the Industry’ interviews Dennis Newman, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Planning at Amtrak.

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