The Two Minute CV

External recognition

Voted 17th one year and 14th the next in Leadership Gurus’ online poll of the world’s foremost leadership gurus. (Though I wouldn’t have included myself in the Top 20.)

My work has been used by the United Nations in its Leadership Competency Development Guide and by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in its guide to Leadership Essentials for Emergency Medical Services.

Large organisations I have helped with their leadership include:

The NHS (working directly to Professor Aidan Halligan and his team when he was Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Director of Clinical Governance)

Barclays (with The Inspired Leaders Network, where I was Education Content Director)

Compass (working on Shaun Smith’s prototype leadership community, spotted there by the EVP HR and asked to build the next generation of leadership learning communities for InterContinental Hotels Group – IHG)

InterContinental Hotels Group (devised, built and ran the award-winning IHG Leaders Lounge global peer learning community, which I ran for nine years after my team built and proved it for them)

WaterAid (Pro Bono Leadership Development Work)

Business Book Author

Two books on leadership published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd – Seven Secrets of Inspired Leaders and The 60 Second Leader. Two eBooks, The Little Book of Leadership 1 and 2, with over two million views on Slideshare.

Leadership speaker

Thought leader

‘Thought leadership’ blogger, part of a small panel of invited bloggers that included Dan Pink and Yahoo’s Tim Sanders, on execubooks.com

Writer, Editor, Business Analyst

Ten years’ Editor/Writer/Content Manager/Chief Editorial & Learning Officer for Websites, Magazines, Journals and creator of award-winning C Suite level peer learning communities.

Writer and Editor for blue chip clients, including Gartner Group, Microsoft, Intel, Compass, The McLaren Formula 1 Team, Powergen, Intel, Informa, IHG.

Over ten years experience as a UK National Journalist writing for titles including:

The Observer
Daily and Sunday Telegraphs
Business Age (columnist)
The Business
The Independent’s Business Section
TES
New Statesman
New Scientist
GQ
Campaign
Computing
Computer Weekly
Management Consultant Magazine
Aerospace Technology
Community Care Magazine
Social Work Today
Social Services Management Journal

Author, UK Annual National Manufacturing Attitudes Survey