Jamie MacAlister, MA, MBA

Reference: Financial Times article Sept 5th 2018 “MBA applicants pick leadership and managing coders as top subjects”

Jamie MacAlister, MA, MBA

Jamie is an experienced executive coach, lecturer, strategy consultant, and commercial manager, having recently been Director of the School of Business & Applied Technology, where he set up a new faculty at Clarke international University (formerly International Health Sciences University) in Kampala, Uganda, and previously as Commercial Director at Ashridge, UK.  He has lectured on global strategy, risk, leadership and coaching. He has recently published a book “Risky Strategy” which is based on Ashridge research on how leaders work with risk, and on his own experience as a strategist and entrepreneur.  He has set up and run a number of start-up businesses.

He has also been part of a team publishing research on corporate approaches to  modern slavery, with a focus on risk in the global supply chain of major retailers. The team have been recognised by Hult as “Researchers of the Year” for “research with the most impact in past 12 months”.

Previously, Jamie was a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and held management roles with Procter & Gamble and Comco (a Swiss technology start-up).  

Jamie has an MA Engineering from Cambridge University and MBA (Honours) from Wharton Business School.  He is also an Ashridge-accredited and experienced executive coach, and is also accredited for various psychometric tools: Hogan, MBTI, Korn Ferry Profilor, and regularly uses his own Character Profiling tool:  www.blonay.co.uk/profiler