Action Learning Associates

Stuart Turnbull

Stuart has twenty years of experience as a strategy, transformation and change consultant. He has worked in more than twenty countries in international, public and private sector organisations covering a wide diversity of industries such as finance, IT, telecoms, engineering, consumer goods and development.

Action learning facilitation

Stuart offers extensive facilitation and coaching skills including action learning facilitation. He pioneered the introduction of action learning as a means of helping to retain and develop top talent in the IT sector while working for part of what was to become Fujitsu in the UK. Since then he has gone on to develop his own skills as an action learning facilitator as well as managing a large number of leadership development programmes and other consulting assignments where action learning has played a significant role. Consequently, he has experience of working in action learning sets which include participants from very diverse backgrounds, multi-national sets and sets where English is not the first language of any of the members.

He is a trained facilitator of “virtual” or audio action learning sets, which offer an environmentally-friendly alternative to face to face action learning with a global reach.

Consultancy

Stuart is an experienced leadership and organisation development consultant who has helped many organisations and individuals to anticipate, prepare for and respond well to internal and external change. While the focus of his work tends towards the relational aspects of his client situations, the types of problems he engages with vary widely. He has particular experience of issues relating to sustainability and corporate social responsibility but has also worked with organisations on brand re-invention, restructuring, leadership and alignment.

Examples of projects include working with functional specialists in finance, legal and HR as they attempt to improve the service they offer their internal clients, working with many senior leaders to enable them to progress to the next level, coaching people who are having difficulties in their working relationships, facilitating process for large groups to meet and explore their common future together and facilitating innovative team development and leadership programmes using non-traditional methods.

Recent customers

Stuarts recent customers include Nokia, Vodafone, Barclays Bank, Deutsche Bank and SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation), The World Bank, UNAIDS (the joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS), Asian Development Bank and British Red Cross. In the past he worked in Brussels at the European headquarters of Levi Strauss & Co. and in Washington DC with the International Finance Corporation.

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