Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas is an experienced chairman of award winning companies and vision holder of successful transformation programmes. He holds a portfolio of corporate, public and academic appointments and leads the OLJ’s International Governance Initiative. He has helped companies in over 40 countries to improve director, board and corporate performance.
In addition to chairing corporate boards he chairs the group audit and risk committee of United Learning, chairs the statutory Education and Registration Standards Committee of the General Osteopathic Council of which he is a lay member, he is Director-General of IOD India for UK and Europe and is a member of the business school team at the University of Greenwich, as well the governance, risk and performance global forum of ACCA. Colin is the author of over 60 books and reports, including ‘Transforming Knowledge Management’, ‘Talent Management 2′, ‘Transforming Public Services’, ‘Winning Companies; Winning People’ and ‘Developing Directors’. Since being the world’s first professor of corporate transformation he has held professorial appointments in Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, India and China and is an authority on corporate governance, learning and transformation and change, knowledge and talent management. He was educated at the LSE, the London Business School and the Universities of Aston, Chicago, South Africa and Southern California. An international Change Agent and Transformation Leader Award winner, Colin is a fellow of seven chartered bodies and secured first place prizes in the final examinations of three professions.