Director, Centre for Organizational Excellence Limited
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Creativity, Strategy and Social Change, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Robert is the Chief Executive of the Centre for Organizational Excellence, a leading provider of executive education and leadership development delivering learning resources – online, on film, in print, and in the classroom. He is an associate faculty with Executive Programmes, Warwick Business School; CEDEP (European Centre for Executive Development, Insead); School of International Management (ENPC, Paris); EHTP Casablanca; and the Shanghai International MBA, and Duke Corporate Education.

Prior to creating the Centre for Organizational Excellence, Robert was Senior Consultant with Financial Services Management Development Limited (FSMD), a leading provider of tailored senior level training programmes for the financial services industry. Before joining FSMD, Robert was Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Corporate Strategy & Change at the University of Warwick.

His research activities focus on understanding the processes of leading change and their relationship to overall competitive performance.

Among numerous other publications, Robert is the author of Organizational Behaviour (Oxford: Wolsey Hall); Managing Organizations (McGraw-Hill), 1999 (2nd edition), co-authored with Dr David Wilson, and the Network Rail Case study series (Warwick Business School), 2007, co-authored with Morven McLean. Over the past twenty years, Robert has worked with a wide variety of organizations around the world including businesses, corporate universities, public sector organizations, third sector organizations, management schools, professional associations and start-ups.

Ph.D., Business Studies, University of Warwick
MBA, International Marketing, University of Concordia
B.A., Economics, McGill University