Nick’s speciality is improving organisational-wide effectiveness and transformation, based on empowering new forms of leadership, strategy and change. He has worked to help change culture in automotive companies, perhaps the most relevant experience working with Unipart (which was the parts company of the state owned UK company British Leyland). His experience includes: Practitioner: UK Army Major (youngest at the time); Development Director/COS of a retail FTSE 100 company responsible for leading a large and successful organisation-wide transformation across 45,000 employees; CEO Tomorrow’s Company Ltd.; CEO of green energy technology start-ups; CEO of Complex Adaptive Leadership Ltd, a global firm with a subsidiary company in China. Consultant: Executive Strategy Consultant of Ernst & Young (also ran Research Associates practice); Managing Partner of The Vth Dimension; MD of Agile+ Consultancy (Shanghai)’ Academic: Professor of Leadership Nyenrode (MBA Professor of the Year more than once); visiting leadership professor: LBS, INSEAD, EHL, IMD; currently visiting professor at CEDEP, France. Author: “Complex Adaptive Leadership – Embracing Paradox and Uncertainty” (Gower best seller,2 editions, as well as Chinese edition), “Practical Business Re-engineering – Tools and Techniques for Achieving Effective Change” (Kogan Page, with Chinese edition amongst other languages), “Leading Complex Projects” (ICCPM). His latest book “More for Less – How to lead an agile, adaptive and self-organising organisation” was published in summer of 2018. More at: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/nickobolensky .
Lucy has 25 years of HR experience. She has deep experience of the automotive industry working at senior levels for traditional companies such as Audi, GM, Michelin and CEIBS, as well as future based companies such as NIO. In that time she has led a lot of organization and leadership development programmes including company cultural building, change management, and building HR system and teams. Lucy is a qualified coach and certified in MBTI as well as Harrison Assessments, DISC, Hogan, and PDP. More at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-qi-2080798b/
Bonnie has over 20 years of working experience in cross-cultural environment, including 12 years as HR professional in China Branch of renown multinational corporations that enjoy worldwide leading position in chemical and shipping industries. Her work there was mostly involved in design and execution of projects concerning leadership development and deployment, change management, employee engagement, learning management, and performance management. Prior to her engagement in HR field, Bonnie was responsible for general business operation at an NGO with sponsorship from European Commission, supporting hundreds of enterprises from China and various countries in Europe to explore win-win collaboration possibilities. She also worked as a university teacher. Bonnie holds a Master’s degree of English Language from Ji Nan University. Having been deeply involved in translation of Nick’s book “Complex Adaptive Leadership – Embracing Paradox and Uncertainty”, Bonnie is China Coordinator for CAL and Agile Plus. More at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonnie-bin-wang-b2b44468/