Alex Hill

Alex is Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School (Oxford University), Senior Lecturer at Kingston Business School (Kingston University), Visiting Professor at Gordon Institute of Business Science (Pretoria University) and part of the Duke Corporate Education (Duke University) learning resource network where he teaches on a variety of postgraduate and executive programmes.

He received his PhD from Bath University based on a £0.5million research project led at Oxford University involving major multinational companies including Shell, British Gas and Scottish and Southern Energy. The work challenged and assisted companies to change established practices in order to meet the current and future expectations and requirements of their customers.

Prior to moving into the academic sector, he spent ten years in various divisions of the Smiths Group, a large engineering multinational. During this period, responsibilities ranged from managing a business unit to providing consultancy support for the Group's facilities in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.

His clients include Abbott Laboratories, Anglo American, DeBeers, GKN, HSBC, John Crane, Natures Way Foods, Nexus Consulting, Pokit, Sainsburys, Smiths Group, Standard Bank, Standard Life Assurance Company, Vestas and Wyeth.

He has published a number of books, journal articles and case studies including Strategic profiling: a visual representation of internal strategic fit in service organizations, International Journal of Operations and Production Management (2007), How to organise operations: Focusing or splitting?, International Journal of Production Economics (2007), Operations: Realising its strategic role, Oxford University Press (2008), Manufacturing Operations Strategy, Palgrave Macmillian (2008) and Service Operations Strategy (2008), Palgrave Macmillian.

Jonathan Harris

Jonathan brings experience from a highly successful career in both operational line management and Human Resource Development. Qualified in a range of psychometric and personal development tools, including MBTI Step 1& 2 and Firo B, with over 20 years in HRD, Jonathan has had a number of different roles including Head of Human Resource Development for a FTSE 100 business. Jonathan specialises in organisational and leadership development, including executive coaching. Jonathan works with clients internationally across a range of business areas including Energy, FMCG, Retail, Manufacturing, Construction and Overseas Banking.

His assignments have enabled him to work extensively across a diverse range of cultures including Mainland Europe, USA, Russia, Scandinavia and Asia.

Jonathan's strengths include his ability to operate and influence at a senior level within an organisation. He has the ability to see connections from a strategic perspective and then ground them in practical applications. He combines first class facilitation and communication skills with an in-depth knowledge and practise of HRD approaches. Open to innovation and change, Jonathan brings a creative and responsive approach to assignments.