About Me
The thing I find most rewarding is helping professionals realise their potential to lead. I love the variety of issues that come up – personal, strategic, ethical, organisational – and supporting individuals and teams to find the ways forward that work for them.
George is an experienced coach and consultant who for many years has worked with chief executives and senior teams. He specialises is supporting and developing senior professionals – doctors, lawyers, accountants - who now have leadership roles. A former finance director and McKinsey consultant, he has helped many individuals make the transition from “expert to expert and leader”. He directs the leadership programme of the National Institute for Health Research and teaches business strategy and organisational change at the business school at Ashridge.
Recent work includes
· Coaching and supporting the managing partner of an accounting firm
· Accompanying a chief executive and his senior team as they worked and helping them to develop in real time
· Helping the senior partners of a leading international law firm to talk to each other and “get real” about key issues
· Aiding the chief executive of a research organisation and his team to deal with intense external and internal pressures and lead change in their sector
· Convening groups of health leaders and helping them to make sense of structural and policy changes and to translate intention into effective action
· Accompanying a chief executive and his senior team as they worked and helping them to develop in real time
· Helping the senior partners of a leading international law firm to talk to each other and “get real” about key issues
· Aiding the chief executive of a research organisation and his team to deal with intense external and internal pressures and lead change in their sector
· Convening groups of health leaders and helping them to make sense of structural and policy changes and to translate intention into effective action
Experience and qualifications
George entered business after qualifying as a barrister and in his early career was a finance director and general manager. He worked for GEC and Courtaulds and worked on many international studies for McKinseys. He has an MA from Cambridge University and an MBA with distinction from INSEAD.
George writes and researches widely on the realities of leadership in international organisations. His latest book is Breaking Free of Bonkers: How To Lead in Today's Crazy World of Organizations.
George writes and researches widely on the realities of leadership in international organisations. His latest book is Breaking Free of Bonkers: How To Lead in Today's Crazy World of Organizations.
