John Adair is an international leadership consultant to a wide
variety of organizations in business, government, the voluntary
sector, education and health, and has been named as one of the
forty people worldwide who have contributed most to the development
of management thought and practice.
Educated at St Paul’s School, John Adair has enjoyed a varied and
colourful career. He served in the Arab Legion, worked as a
deckhand on an Artic trawler and had a spell as an orderly in a
hospital operating theatre. After Cambridge he became Senior
Lecturer in Military History and Leadership Training Adviser at the
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, before becoming Director of
Studies at St George’s House in Windsor Castle and then Assistant
Director of the Industrial Society. Later he became the world’s
first professor in Leadership Studies at the University of Surrey.
He has written over forty books on leadership, management and
history, which have been translated into many languages.
John Adair is married with three children. He lives near Guildford
in Surrey.
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