Alan Hooper DL, MA, FRSA

Alan Hooper is the Founder and a Fellow of the Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter (the first such university-based Ce ntre in UK). He is also a Visiting Professor at Bristol Business School. He consults widely on leadership and change-management, and is a much sought after speaker on Leadership, based on his practical leadership experience, authorship, consultancy and business school lecturing.

He obtained an MA in Politics from Exeter University in 1979 and published The Military and the Media (Gower, 1982). He is also joint author with John Potter of The Business of Leadership (Ashgate, 1997), Intelligent Leadership: Creating a Passion for Change (Random House, 2000) and Developing Strategic Leadership Skills(CIPD, 2005). He is also Editor of Leadership Perspectives (Ashgate, 2006).

Alan was the Deputy Director, Centre for Management Studies, University of Exeter from 1990-93 and became the Programme Director for the University's Postgraduate Diploma/MA in Leadership (the only course of its kind in Europe) in 1992. He was the Founding Director of the Centre for Leadership Studies at Exeter from 1997-2002 and is now a Fellow.

Alan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a non-executive Member of Western Provident Association Ltd, on the Council of St John Ambulance, Devon and a Trustee of Wellington School. He is also a Deputy Lieutenant of Devon.