Andrew Kakabadse

Andrew Kakabadse enjoys working across the globe in a variety of capacities. He has consulted and lectured in the UK, Europe, the USA, SE Asia, China, Japan, Russia, Georgia, the Gulf States and Australia. He is currently embarked on a major £2 million global study of boardroom effectiveness and governance practice, with the participation of a number of governments including British Ministers of State.

His top team database covers 17 nations and many thousands of private and public sector organisations. The study of the strategic skills of top teams has now extended into Japan, China, Hong Kong and the USA. He has held positions on the boards of a number of companies and has also been adviser to a Channel 4 business series in the UK.

Andrew’s current areas of interest focus on:

• leadership,
• governance,
• boardroom performance,
• change management,
• performance improvement for top executives and top executive teams,
• excellence in consultancy practice,
• social and public administration,
• organisational behaviour, and
• international relations and Government.

In addition to his consulting services, Andrew is also Professor of International Management Development at Cranfield University’s School of Management, co-editor of the Journal of Management Development and Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, and editorial board member of the Journal of Managerial Psychology and the Leadership and Organisation Development Journal. He holds a number of international Visiting Professorships and Fellowships, and he has published 39 books, over 230 articles and 18 monographs.

Andrew has been ranked in the 2011 and 2013 Thinkers50, the listing of the world’s top 50 business thinkers.