“Lessons from The Board”
You will be welcomed by one of Birmingham City Business School’s Professors in Management Practice who have a wealth of experience in business and industry and will give you insights into embarking on a successful business career and a great impression of what studying at Birmingham City Business School will be like.
Professor Paul Turner
Paul Turner is Professor of Management Practice at Birmingham City University having held similar positions at Universities in Cambridge and Nottingham. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Blessing White (EMEA).
Paul Turner’s previous positions have included President of Europe, Middle East and Africa, Employee Care for the Convergys Corporation of Cincinnati, (to 2005) Group HR Business Director for Lloyds TSB, (to 2003) Vice President of the CIPD, (to 2001) a Director of BT, a Non-Executive Director of OPI and a General Manager for Plessey in both the UK and Asia Pacific.
Paul is Chair of Human Asset 2011, was Chair of the 2011 Talent for Tomorrow conference, the 2010 European HR Summit and of the 2009 CEEHR Summit in Vienna. He is a judge on the European HR Excellence Awards (2011), a judge on the CIPD 2009 People Management Awards and a consultant on the CIPD research into Workforce Planning (2010) and Talent Management (2007).
Paul has spoken at business conferences around the world and is the author of The Admirable Company (2008, with Mike Brown), Organisational Communication (2003); HR Forecasting and Planning (2002) and one of the authors of Workforce Planning (2010) and Talent (2007) published by the CIPD.
He has written articles for business journals and the International Press.
Paul has a first degree, a PhD and is a Companion of the CIPD.
Professor Christian Edger
Professor Chris Edger, who holds the Chair of Multi-Unit Leadership, has twenty five years of senior leisure and retail sales, operations and support service expertise in domestic and international companies.
PhD, MBA and DMS and MSc qualified, Chris was Executive Director of HR, Service and Productivity at Mitchells and Butlers Plc (the UK’s largest casual dining company; All Bar One, Browns, Harvester, Toby, Crown, Vintage Inns etc.). In 2010 he won the Personnel Today 'HR Impact of the Year' Award, beating other short-listed candidates from Boots, Santander, McDonalds and 3M. Chris previously held Operational and Executive Board positions in Coors, Interbrew S.A., Bass Leisure Entertainments and the Bass Lease Company.
His specialist teaching areas on the MSc in Multi-Unit Leadership and Strategy (shortlisted for the CIPD ‘Learning and Development Award’ in 2011) are service leadership and operational improvement & innovation within retail and service multi-unit organisations. His book, ‘Confronting Disruption – Effective Multi-Unit Leadership’, will be published by Gower Press in 2012.