Faculty staff profile

Paul Kirkbride has a long career in management and executive education and industry in Asia (mainly Hong Kong and China), North America, and Europe. He has both academic and industry experience contributing to the leadership of global companies. His career has included research and consulting, and he has written numerous books and articles on organisational change and development. His most recent books, Globalisation: the External Pressures and Globalisation: The Internal Dynamics, were published by Wiley in 2001.

Paul was senior lecturer, principal lecturer and reader at the City University of Hong Kong, then moved to become British Aerospace Professor of Organisational Change and Development at British Aerospace and the University of Hertfordshire.

He joined Ashridge Business School in 1991 as a Client and Program Director, and remained with Ashridge for over a decade in various positions. He also established and was Managing Director of two specialist training and consultancy firms.

In 2002 he became Director, Value Based Leadership Development and Chief Learning Officer for ITT Industries, a Fortune 500 company. And most recently he has been a Managing Director in New York City with Duke Corporate Education, rated the #1 provider of corporate education programs in the world by The Financial Times for the past six consecutive years.

For more than 25 years, Paul has worked globally with client organisations in the interstices of strategy, change and leadership. Just a few of his many past clients have included Cathay Pacific Airways, British Aerospace, the Hong Kong Government, Volkswagen, BASF, Beiersdorf, Scottish Power, and Volvo AB.

His design and teaching interests include strategy implementation, organisational change, leadership development, developing organisational culture, the human side of mergers and alliances, cross-cultural management, and the development and delivery of action-learning-based and project-based management development programs.