Ed held senior line management positions for 20 years in the areas of Marketing, Innovation, Corporate Affairs, Leadership Development, and Change Management in Unilever and Masterfoods .

Ten years ago, he founded his own business, “Building Collaborative Futures”, a consulting and coaching practice.  He has used this as an opportunity to work collaboratively with organisations, teams and individuals to effect change and create sustainable future plans

He is an experienced consultant in the organisational, leadership and strategy areas and delivers programmes in the Public Sector Leadership Centre of Ashridge Business School

He has continued to develop his personal coaching & consulting skills through links with the European Institute for Organisational Development ‘Professional Development Programme’ (where he became a certified OD consultant). He also has worked on Tavistock Institute of Psychology development programmes for many years and more recently graduated from the Ashridge Coaching for Organisation Consultants programme.

Ed is an experienced facilitator and has worked on a variety of Ideathons.  He has also facilitated Modernisation teams in the NHS, Innovation teams in consumer and business markets, and public sector Think Tanks

Ed brings an exceptionally broad understanding of business, organisations and leadership.