Robin Lincoln Wood
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Robin Lincoln Wood (born June 7, 1956) Dr Robin Lincoln Wood is the author and co-author of several award winning books, ranging from "Managing Complexity" to "Information 2000". He is also a leading expert on business strategy, leadership development, innovation and business change and transformation.
[edit] Career
Dr Wood focuses is on the development of leaders within global organizations undergoing major change. He brings twenty-five years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies and NGO’s in over 30 countries, re-invigorating their strategic thinking and inspiring their leadership teams to create rewarding, sustainable futures.
Robin held a number of senior positions in the UK prior to founding the Sustainable Learning & Innovation Lab at Chateau La Tour Apollinaire in Perpignan, France. He: worked as a corporate lawyer, Citicorp investment banker, Managing Director at Scient and co-founded Ernst & Young's strategy, technology incubator and e-business practices; among other roles. Since 1990 Robin has also founded two leading –edge consulting boutiques, a knowledge management software company and has advised and invested in dozens of successful start-ups. He is recognized as a leading authority on innovation, the learning organisation, knowledge management and leadership and strategy in complex, rapidly evolving hi-tech global firms.
Robin’s clients in the past two decades have included the leadership teams and senior executives in more than 40 of the Global 1000 including Glaxo-Wellcome, Pfizer, Novartis, Vodafone, BT, the UK Defense Ministry, ZF Group, BBA Aviation, Eagle Star, Royal & Sun Alliance, Kellogg’s, Ernst and Young International, UK and South African National Health Services, Hewlett Packard, HP/Microsoft alliance, HP/Intel alliance, Barclays, World Bank, Unilever, Royal Dutch PTT, ICL, 3M and Shell International.
Robin graduated from London Business School in 1995 with a PhD in Strategic Alignment. He has been a Fellow at the Centre for Management Development since 2002, where he jointly led the Strategy into Action programme for the top 100 global leaders in Vodafone.
Robin wrote the award-winning book: Managing Complexity-How Businesses can Adapt and Prosper in the Connected Economy, (Economist Books, 2000). He has been a frequent celebrity speaker at major conferences and events, is a Fellow of the Institute for Coherence and Emergence in the USA, and on the editorial board of Development and Learning in Organizations. His next book: Thriving in the 4th Wave- Required Wisdom for an Age of Unprecedented Challenges, will be published in 2008.
[edit] Books
Dr Robin Wood has wrote one book so far called Managing Complexity.
He is now moving onto another book called the Fourth Wave.[citation needed] It will be all about the fourth step of the human race. No release date has been set so far.[citation needed]
