The Global Team
Globally consistent, leading edge, leadership and organisational development with local delivery.
Complex Adaptive Leadership has a network of over 50 high quality associates and business partners around the world which enable global coverage of this ground-breaking approach, but with local delivery.
Our partners and associates all share a view of a wider remit for leadership. They believe that leadership needs to change from its traditional approach. They have an appreciation of some of the approaches from complexity science which can help a broader understanding of how leadership can be shared to engage stakeholders across the organisation and beyond. In addition to this, each of our associates have at least two of the following:
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Where our associates are based
Global Coverage – Local Delivery – GLOCAL
EMEA Associates
Nick Obolensky
Nick’s background includes being an Army Major in his late 20‘s, a FTSE 100 Director in his 30’s and a visiting leadership professor at business schools such as INSEAD and LBS in his 40s. He specialises in helping organisations achieve leadership at all levels and mass culture change.
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Morley Potter
Morley specialises in improving performance through building capability & enabling change, supporting leaders, teams & key groups as they undertake or lead transition.
Herman Prakke
Teambuilding, coaching and supporting personal development, applying 20 years of international management experience as well as a genuine interest in the right side of the human brain.
Mike Jackson
Mike is the Founder Member and Chairman of www.shapingtomorrow.com. He also advises businesses on dramatically improving their competitiveness through pioneering work on practical Sustainable Business Strategies.
Wouter van Roost
Wouter, a philosophy graduate, is a native Belgian with a very international career blue-chip companies across various industries. He started his career in the advertising industry where he quickly got a special liking for innovative thinking and strategy development.
Julian Birkinshaw
Julian Birkinshaw is Professor and Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School. He is co-founder of the Management Lab (MLab), a Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (UK), and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.
Jonathan Gosling
Headed up the Centre for Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter and is Distinguished Visiting Professor for Leadership Development at INSEAD. Published articles including Harvard Business Review and enjoys a rich and a varied background.
Jules Goddard
Currently, Fellow of London Business School;
Member of the Academic Committee of CEDEP at INSEAD;
Formerly, Gresham Professor of Commerce at the City University.
Serge Beddington- Behrens
Serge is an internationally respected coach, psychotherapist, and spiritual educator. He started as a stockbroker, before moving into publishing and running an art gallery in London. He then went to the U.S. and qualified as a Transpersonal Psychotherapist, Life Coach and Relationship Consultant.
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Michael Kingscote
Michael is the founder and Managing Director of www.outposts.co.uk. The company provides adventurous activities and leadership training for all ages in UK, Africa, Europe and the Far East. Experiential learning is the foundation of the leadership training using innovative tasks, both indoor and outside.
Oxana Klimenko
Oxana is a leading consultant qualified in project and programme management and leadership. She has long experience in this field, including past roles such as the Regional Director of ICCPM in Russia and CIS countries, and also currently Senior Lecturer at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
Roger Minton
Roger is a Leadership development consultant and Executive coach. He spends periods of time in interim roles both managing leadership development functions and as HR Director. He is also a Programme Director at London Business School. Prior to becoming an independent consultant he held senior HR and development roles in FTSE 100 companies.
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Huseyin Cırpan
Hüseyin is Dr. Hüseyin Cirpan is an OD Consultant and a senior leadership coach who has proven success in developing professionals, building teams and refocusing
organizations, making them resilient and efficient since
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Arnold Timmerman
Arnold Timmerman has been working around the globe since 2004 facilitating cutting edge personal and professional development programs. From 2004 till 2011 he was a worldwide trainer and international presenter for The Journey Seminars, and in 2009 he co-created & presented leadership development programs based on emotional awareness & self-inquiry. He is the author of "Leadingship" (2012).
Rolf Giesbert
Rolf Giesbert is an executive coach with many years experience designing and delivering leadership programmes. He has been a senior manager IT with various MNCs in Germany leading large and complex IT and business process projects around the world.
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Lorne Mitchell
Lorne Mitchell is founder and Managing Director at Objective Designers which he specialises in Business Accelerators, Business Simulations and Distributed Agile Swarms. Lorne has over 30 years of experience in bringing to life innovative technology platforms and solutions for the Military, Local Government, Telecoms, Media and IT sectors.
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Ian Anderson
Ian Anderson has over 30 years of senior executive experience in business and general management, including C-suite, in the international chemical industry. He has been responsible for up to 1000 people across all major economic regions including spells as JV Board member in Egypt, Finland and Saudi Arabia. He has worked with four transformational M&A/integration projects and multiple smaller integration projects, first in Europe and then in China, where he has spent the last 10 years as MD of two multinationals’ subsidiaries. Read More
Americas Associates
Abby Straus
Abby is a pioneer in the field of leadership for complex environments. She partners with individuals, groups and organization systems as a facilitator, workshop leader and coach, helping people develop distributed leadership capacities and methods of interaction to collectively co-create a more successful future.
Dawn Gilpin
Dawn Gilpin spent more than 15 years working in Italy in various areas of organizational communication and public relations, including crisis management and internal communication. She joined the Cronkite School faculty after completing her Ph.D. in Mass Media & Communication at Temple University, where she was a Presidential Fellow.
Martha Miser
Martha Miser is a consultant, educator and coach with over 30 years of experience in leading organizational change in the US and Europe. In addition to holding leadership positions in both public and private sector organizations, Martha has extensive experience as a practitioner in organization and leadership development, team coaching, and education design and delivery.
Mary Uhl-Bien
Along with Russ Marion, Mary pioneered the study of complexity leadership in the academic field of management. She is a renowned leadership scholar who has taught and presented her work around
the world. Her research findings are published in top academic and practitioner journals, and her contributions to leadership theory have been recognized with best paper awards.
Peter Smith
As President of The Leadership Alliance Inc. (TLA), Peter Smith maintains a worldwide consulting practice assisting leading public and private sector organizations enhance performance by optimizing activities related to Interactive Planning and critical sustainability drivers such as knowledge management, organizational learning, innovation, and complexity leadership.
Angelia Cartwright
Angie is the owner of Potentiality Coaching & Consulting. Angie thrives in helping companies improve, maximize, and continuously improve the functioning of individuals, teams, as well as the total organization. Her industry experience includes government, retail, healthcare, non-profit, real-estate, technology and telecom.
Edward F Knab
Dr. Edward Knab’s 30 year professional career has been focused on the expansion of global supply chains and global markets. He spent 20 years developing global supply chain solutions for the hardware, office products, and office furniture industries.
Newton Rodrigues - Lima
Newton is an entrepreneur and an executive, whose exposure during his career enabled him to incorporate meaningful experiences in Strategy, Leadership, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Human Resources.
Raphael Viton
Raphael Louis Vitón is a global innovation professional and innovation leadership expert and author. He helps organisations innovate and pilot strategic inflection points by delivering increased performance under stress whilst de-risking, de-mystifying and re-humanising innovation.
Marianne Tracy
Marianne Tracy is a management consulting professional and project consultant. She works internationally with pharmaceutical, manufacturing, media and healthcare industries, providing leadership, strategy, change management and business transformation solutions for organizational renewal and improvement.
APAC Associates
Douglas Dean
Douglas is a business development, strategy expert and a world-class brand builder. He has over 25 years experience in industry and consulting including Chief Marketing Officer for Volkswagen commercial vehicles, Vice President of the prestigious Lausanne Hotel School and Advisor to Nestle-Nespresso’s CEO.
Beth mAcdonald
Through more than 30 years of professional experience, Beth mAcdonald has held positions in technical management, franchise market development, new business development and organizational consultancy. With exposure to industries as diverse as technical textiles, consumer products, medical devices, training and website development, she has a broad corporate experience which allows her to relate to variety of people, problems and opportunities.
Rohn Rajen
Rohn Rajen is the founding partner of High Performance Asia and Human Capital Group Asia. He is the Managing Director and Principal Consultant of RRC Worldwide. He has been a Professional Trainer/Consultant for 20 years. He is an expert in Neuro Linguistics Programming (NLP) and Accelerated Performance Technology (APT) learning methods. A Sports Physiologist by qualification, Rohn has in-depth knowledge and understanding of human potential and behaviour modification.
John Findlay
John Findlay is a partner of Maverick & Boutique. His complex adaptive systems model of socio-technogical change offers a robust explanation for the hyper-chaotic period currently being experienced in every realm of human activity - technology, markets, economies, jobs and politics - as humans make the shift to a new and higher level of social and technological order.
Stephen Yong
Stephen Yong is the Principal Consultant of Blue Dot Learning, a performance enrichment consultancy specialising in delivering high-quality Leadership Programs, HR Programs and Consultative Selling Skills Training.
Findlay Herbert
Findlay Herbert has over 30 years’ experience working with clients, teams and individuals to facilitate sustained improvement in performance in both organizational and sporting arenas. His focus is on devolving leadership, accountability and responsibility to the individual level and building successful teams and organizations through influencing, coaching and capacity building rather than chain of command.
Jennifer Fan
Based in New Zealand, Jennifer has around 12 years of organizational and leadership development work with several multi-national companies in Mainland China and Hong Kong. She has designed different levels of leadership development programs in the companies she worked in, and has also consulted to design competency models and leadership solutions for outside companies. She is a keen and qualified executive coach.
Suman Nair
Suman has some 20 years experience in strategic and operational capacities to ensure organizational effectiveness, having worked with industries ranging from Manufacturing, Retail, Service, IT/ITES, etc. She is a certified Business Coach and has contributed to academics while being associated with various educational institutes, including ISTD, Welingkar, etc as faculty and Mentor.
GCA (Greater China Area)
Bonnie Wang
Acting as our Co-ordinator for China, Bonnie has 20 years of working experience in cross-cultural environment, including 12 years as HR professional in China for renown multinational corporations that enjoy worldwide leading position in chemical and shipping industries.
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Hongkuan Jiang
Hongkuan has 30 years’ experience in both public and private sectors. His first 15 years he served in public and academic sectors, and the last 15 years in business. He spent 12 years of his career working outside China and had the opportunity to work for US, French, and Chinese companies—all large ones, including GE and Johnson & Johnson.
Ivy Wang
Ivy has more than 14 years in leadership assessment and leadership development, including hands on experience in corporate and enriched project experience with clients in areas like: talent assessment, leadership development, company culture development, LND system development etc.
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Simon Liu
Simon has 20 years of senior management experience in a variety of multi-national companies. Dealt with cultural conflict issues in different equity structures of joint ventures, several offshore investors and foreign investor M&As of local businesses. Led management teams of various disciplines from diverse cultural backgrounds
Jenny Jiang
Jenny has many years of experience working as an HR professional in Multi-National Companies in China. She has designed as well as delivered leadership development programmes, and is a certified coach as well as qualified in various psychological instruments.
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Louis Shea
Louis has more than 25 years of work experience with multi-national corporations at senior positions . Louis is certified in Facet 5, DISC and INIFAC SPOT Facilitation. His consulting and training subject expertise include Project Management, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Communication Effectiveness, Negotiation Behavior, Influencing Skills and Leadership Development.
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Sunny Su
Sunny is a qualified and experienced coach who has worked for several years in China. Her work experience also includes working in international sales, supply chain management and general management in consumer goods and IT business.
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Ruth Guo
Ruth is an experienced HR professional working at senior level for several MNCs responsible for leadership and talent development. She has over 20 years experience in this field and is passionate about developing leaders and helping organisations build up effective systems and solutions to gain better results.
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Maria Wang
Maria is an experienced Organisational Development consultant and has done work with various companies in China to improve organisational effectiveness. Previously the Learning and Development Director for Kodak in Asia region she has an innovative approach to organisational development.
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Morris Yan
Morris is an experienced organisational development (OD) consultant focusing on OD, learning organisation, facilitation and coaching to solve management difficulties and build better strategies and a healthier organisation.
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Sophie Wang
Sophie started her career as an engineer before moving into consulting. She is a qualified psychologist and has over 21 years experience in talent development, coaching and leadership development.
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Amos Yin
Amos has a background of a practitioner having held senior positions in Dell and China Telecom. He has directed large and successful change programmes. He is qualified in various psychometrics, as well as coaching and OD.
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Elaine Zou
Elaine has some 20 years of working experience in cross-cultural environment, including OD, HR and Learning Director in mainland China for a renown multinational retail company. Her focus are program design and delivery of leadership development, talent and performance management solution. Read More
Lucy Qi
Lucy has 25 years of HR experience. In that time she has led a lot of organization and leadership development programmes including company cultural building, change management, and building HR teams. Lucy is a qualified coach and certified in MBTI as well as Harrison Assessments, DISC, Hogan, and PDP. Read More
Due to the unique market of China, a sister company of CAL has been formed in Shanghai, Agile+ Management Consultants, to coordinate Chinese Associates and manage Business Partner agreements with the following companies:
