Alasdair WhiteAlasdair White  FHEA, FINS

Author, Lecturer and Consultant

Alasdair White is a management development consultant specialising in performance management and organisational behaviour. Working for Performance Management Solutions, he is based near Brussels in Belgium and has an international practice with clients throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Far East. His clients include international banks (such as Citibank and Ecobank), insurance companies, multi-nationals (such as IBM), petroleum companies (such as ADCO), hotels (such as ITT-Sheraton) and international institutions such as the Islamic Development Bank, the European Commission and the United Nations.

He was a faculty member on the University of Wales BA in Business Studies (taught at United Business Institutes in Brussels, Belgium) from 2001 to 2012, and is currently on the faculty of the United International Business Schools in Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium. In addition, he was a faculty member of the European Management Development Institute (EMADIN), a regular guest lecturer at the University of Winchester in the United Kingdom and held a visiting faculty position at Hoa Sen University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from 2006 until the end of 2010.

After 20 years experience in senior management and board level consultancy, Alasdair White now specialises in management development, lecturing and research and is a recognised authority on ‘performance management’ from a behavioural perspective. He has considerable experience in, and knowledge of, multi-cultural and multi-lingual environments and on the application of information systems to facilitate collaborative working, new business and structural models, and knowledge transfer.

A frequent speaker on management development and much in demand as a seminar leader, he is the author of Managing for Performance (1995), Continuous Quality Improvement (1996) and The Essential Guide to Developing Your Staff (1998), all published by Piatkus Books. After conducting extensive worldwide research, he wrote From Comfort Zone to Performance Management (2008) and Managing Academic Performance (2009) both published by White & MacLean Publishing and also in 2009 he published a thriller novel Shadows under the pen name of Alex Hunter (White & MacLean Publishing). Managing for Performance was recently reissued as an eBook by White & Maclean Publishing.

Born on 24 May 1952 in Shifnal, United Kingdom, Alasdair White studied education and physical science at King Alfred’s College, Winchester, England, (now the University of Winchester) gaining a Cert Ed from the University of Southampton before spending 18 months teaching English in Spain. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1976 to take up the role of managing director of a small holding company operating businesses in southern England during which time he also acted as a business journalist and newspaper editor. He became a management development consultant in 1984 and moved to The Netherlands in 1987 to set set up a pan-European investment consultancy. In 1989, he joined Citibank to conduct a a major change management programme and moved to Belgium in 1992 to establish Performance Management Solutions as a consultancy specialising in management development, executive training and research. He was appointed a Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society in the mid 1990s and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2011

Alasdair White has been listed in the Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World since 2001 and is also listed in Wikipedia

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