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. His particular interests are 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, where he specialises in enterprise and innovation.

His books include The Experienced Manager (which won the Institute of Management's "Bowie Medal") and Leaders We Deserve (recently reissued in a special Australian edition). Intelligent Leadership, which is perhaps his best known work, was published in Australia in 1997 and was an immediate best seller. It was updated and re-released in 2003.

Alistair 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 grey area between the public/private (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.