Alistair Mant

Alistair Mant is an international authority on leadership development and executive talent identification. He is Chairman of the UK-based Socio-Technical Strategy Group - a brokerage for carrying out studies of system function and dysfunction. The Group's work rests mainly on socio-technical systems theory. This concerns the natural properties of complex organisational and political systems at the point where operations and human nature interact - where expensive and embarrassing blunders occur.
Alistair Mant spends a third of each year working with private and public sector clients in Australasia. He appears regularly on the conference circuit, dealing with leadership, systems thinking, modernisation of government (implementing "joined-up" thinking), organisation structure and the strategic aspects of human resource management and development. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, specialising in enterprise and innovation.

His books include The Experienced Manager (which won the Institute of Management's "Bowie Medal"), The Rise & Fall of the British Manager, Bismarck to Bullock - Conversations about Political & Industrial Contrasts in Britain & Germany, The Dynamics of Management Education, and Leaders We Deserve (recently reissued in a special Australian edition). His latest book Intelligent Leadership was published in Australia in 1997 and was an immediate best seller. It was updated and rereleased in 2003.

He has a global portfolio of executive role coaching clients and is a member of the Global Coaching Partnership. As executive coach, he has a special practice in the public/private grey area (values-driven companies and businesslike government). He is also the Strategy Advisor to the Employers' Forum on Disability - the leading European body driving systemic change in the provision of real employment and facilities for disabled people. Client Ovations: Alistair Mant is an Australian - amongst the most original of his generation - and he seems to have come up with an analysis of this country's present condition which nobody else has quite matched for depth and point

Clive James on The Rise ' Fall of the British Manager

An exciting, frightening, stimulating analysis of what makes leaders tick and get elected.....It's delightfully outrageous and provoking; anyone in any way concerned with taking or thinking about leadership should read it

Leaders we Deserve