Advisory Board

Mike Williams

Mike Williams is an international management consultant, with associate companies in Geneva, Copenhagen and Vienna. He teaches at leading European Business Schools, including IMD, Lausanne and the Theseus Institute at Sophia Antipolis, in France. He is also a Director on the Board of British Ceramic Tile Limited, a major UK designer and manufacturer of ceramic tiles.

Principal clients include: ICI; GUS; Stora Enso (Sweden); Akzo Nobel (Holland); Generali (Italy); Europ Assistance (Austria & Eastern Europe); Metra (Finland); Novartis(Scandinavia); McCain Foods (USA & Canada); MCE (Belgium); Astra-Zeneca Pharmaceuticals; Northern Ireland Electricity; and several leading banks, including ABN AMRO, ING-Barings and HSBC.

Typical assignments are:

• Major organisation transformation programmes
• Identification of managerial and professional potential
• Psychometric profiling (assessment and development centres)
• Leadership development
• Team building
• Cross-functional interfacing and cultural integration
• Global organisation integration

Mike draws on twenty years' managerial experience in the printing, iron & steel, engineering and automotive industries, including manufacturing, sales and marketing and organisation development. He is the author, or co-author, of eight books on organisational behaviour, leadership and management. Publications since 1997 include:

1. Mastering Leadership
2. Enabling - Beyond Empowering
3. Test your Management Skills
4. The War for Talent

Mike is a member of the British Psychological Society, the Institute of Directors and the Association of management Education & Development. He originally read psychology, with moral philosophy and then took his M.Sc., by research, at The University of Aston, in the fields of management performance and the identification of executive potential. He served full-time - and subsequently as a volunteer reservist - in the Royal Navy (Intelligence) and the Royal Marines (SBS and Commando). His various roles included: Russian linguist; frogman-canoeist; Commando rifle troop officer; and second-in-command of a combined SBS-Commando RMR unit.