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It is vital to us at IEDP to be consistently abreast of the latest developments and initiatives occurring in the executive development world. We have created an Editorial Advisory Board made up of leading practitioners and academics from a wide variety of industries and regions to inform us of their experiences at "the coalface" and so help guide our editorial policy and help shape our other information services.

Editorial Advisory Board Members

ANDREW BELL

Managing Director, Hemisphere Consulting Pte. Ltd; Singapore

Andrew is the founder and managing director of Hemisphere Consulting Pte Ltd, a consultancy focusing on people strategies for business. He is also Managing Director of Asianic Psychologists Press Singapore, who organise training/certification and distribution of psychometric instruments including MBTI®, FIRO-B®, Strong Interest Inventory® , CPI 434™, CPI™, TKI, Benchmarks® and SKILLSCOPE®

On behalf of The Conference Board, Andrew is the Program Director for the Asia Pacific H.R. Council.

Before setting up his own business he was Senior Vice President Human Resources - East Asia Pacific, Unilever.

Contact details:
www.hc.com.sg
andrewbell@hc.com.sg

CLAUDIA BIDWELL

Head Global Talent Management and Organization Development, Novartis Pharmaceuticals; Basel, Switzerland

Claudia is located at the headquarters of Novartis in Basel, Switzerland, and heads up the Talent Management and Organisation Development functions globally. Prior to joining Novartis, she worked for 7 years for Unisys Corporation in the USA, and prior to that, with Hay Management Consultants for 8 years, specialising in executive development and organisational change.

She holds a bachelor of Science (BSc) Economics from London University.

Dr. AMY CARVER, PhD

Consultant; former SVP and Director of the Integrated Performance Consulting practice, Wachovia; North Carolina, USA.

Amy had responsibility for the talent management processes across the Wachovia footprint, supporting more than 85,000 employees and all lines of business. She managed the corporation’s Executive Leadership Program (ELP), recently recognized as a best practice in executive education by Training magazine, 2005.

Amy left Wachovia in Spring 2005 to focus on her consulting interests developed over 15 years of corporate and consulting experience across a range of industries, including banking and finance, travel and aviation, defense, and government.

She received her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Rice University, Houston, TX, and her B.A. in Psychology from Gannon University, Erie, PA. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, Society for Human Resource Management and the Society for IIndustrial and Organizational Psychology

BRIAN DIVE

Managing Director, DMA Consultancy; Surrey, UK

Brian is an internationally experienced and independent consultant, writer, trainer and presenter on issues relating to organisation design and effectiveness including all aspects of human resource and leadership development, management education and change management.

He previously held a number of senior positions in Unilever in New Zealand, The Netherlands and the UK. Since 2000 he has run his own business, DMA Consultancy, out of the UK with clients in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He has conducted assignments in over 60 countries.

He has contributed a number of articles to magazines and journals. In 2004 the second edition of his book, “The Healthy Organization A Revolutionary Approach to People and Management” was published.

For further information see www.dmaconsultancy.com

TED FORBES

Director Capital One University, Capital One Inc; Richmond, Virginia, USA

Ted Forbes is the Director of Capital One University, which offers training, development and leadership programs to the enterprise. Prior to leading the University, he was in a Business Partner role as Director of HR for all of Capital One's staff functions. Forbes has a background in both consulting and academics, and prior to joining Capital One he was on the faculty at the Darden Business School, University of Virginia. He has worked with companies in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

GARETH JONES

Head of Organisational Development, M&G Investments; London, UK

Gareth is Head of Organisational Development for M&G Investments, Prudential's asset management business in the UK, Europe and South Africa. His responsibilities cover executive development, business-wide capability, e-learning, and Regulatory HR. Gareth has spent the last 7 years in internal leadership development, and has also worked with investment teams on building their understanding of the leadership effectiveness within investee companies. Prior to that he ran a management development consultancy, and early roles were in sales and marketing and business conference management. He has an MA in Modern Languages from Oxford.

MICHAEL MOLINARO

UBS Executive Director, Learning & Development

Michael is Executive Director for Learning & Development at UBS, a global investment banking and securities firm. Michael's career has been focused on the Learning and OD space within the financial services industry, having held senior level HR and training positions at Drexel Burnham Lambert, Shearson Lehman Brothers, and Deutsche Bank among other firms. Michael has a particular interest in the application of technology within organizational systems development. He has edited "How to Design Self-Directed and Distance Learning", published by McGraw-Hill. American by birth, Michael now resides in North London with his wife and children.

Prof. Dr. DANICA PURG

Dean & Director of IEDC-Bled School of Management and President of CEEMAN (Central and East European Management Development Association); Bled, Slovenia

Professor Danica Purg is the founding and current director of the IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia, and the first President of the Central and East European Management Development Association – CEEMAN. She is also chairperson and director of the European Leadership Centre – ELC, established with the aim of assessing and promoting European leadership through the organization of forums, workshops and research.

Dr. Purg is professor of leadership and effective management at the IEDC-Bled School of Management, at the Polytechnic Nova Gorica, adjunct faculty at ESMT Berlin and visiting professor at Reykjavik University.

Her special field of interest is looking for inspirations for managers from art and other professions.

JENNIFER PUESCHNER

Senior Manager, Customer and Supply Chain Institute, Raytheon and
Program Manager, Supply Chain Leadership Development Program; Tucson, Arizona, USA

Jennifer is a Senior Manager in the Customer & Supply Chain Institute. In this capacity, she serves as the Program Manager for the Supply Chain Leadership Development Program and is responsible for cultivating key relationships with nationally recognized academic institutions to drive talent recruitment and development for Raytheon’s Supply Chain organization She is a Six Sigma Expert currently supporting Mission Assurance at Raytheon Missile Systems and also supports a variety of other Customer & Supply Chain Institute initiatives driving collaboration with Raytheon’s customers and suppliers. Prior to Raytheon, Jennifer served as Vice President of Client Development at Internal & External Communications (IEC) driving several leadership, change, and knowledge capture projects with clients such as Lexus-Toyota, Cisco Systems, Rockwell Collins, and Kyocera Qualcomm.

TARUN SHETH

Senior Consultant, SHILPUTSI; Mumbai, India

Shilputsi, the leading HR development consultancy in India, specialises in organizational restructuring, recruitment, training, introduction of personnel systems etc. to a large number of companies. Tarun has been mentioned as one of the "Indian Management Gurus" by Business World magazine. He is a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad) and MS University, Baroda as well as a having taught at the Motorola University. He was President of the Bombay Management Association.

Contact details:
www.shilputsi.com
tarun@shilputsi.com

ANDREW SPENCER

Head of Training and Development, Director Development, Institute of Directors; London, UK

Andrew took up the role of Programme Manager of open courses for Director Development at the Institute of Directors in 2000. In the summer of 2003 he became Director Development’s Head of Training and Development, handling the core set of courses offered by The IoD in the UK, but also with responsibility for the development of relationships with equivalent organisations abroad wishing to develop director level training programmes.

In particular, Andrew has responsibility for the IoD’s local UK centres, where the courses contributing to the Diploma in Company Direction are available.

After graduating in physics from Liverpool in 1991, Andrew began work as an author of training materials. Training delivery followed, within higher education before moving to (the then) GEC Marconi Avionics (now BAE Systems) delivering and organising management and graduate development programmes as well as engineering and IT training.

 

 

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