Brian Bacon is a pioneer and thought leader on the role of business in society. He is a celebrated speaker on the international circuit on the subjects of leadership, strategic focusing and the role of values in organizational transformation. He is the founder and President of Oxford Leadership Academy with offices in the UK, Sweden, Hong Kong, USA and Australia and operations in 23 countries.
He is a special advisor to Prime Ministers, Presidents and Heads of State and a leading consultant to the CEO’s and top management of numerous multinational corporations including Ford, Ericsson, Coca-Cola, BP, Telefónica, Horwath International, Barclay’s, McDonald's, Sandvik, GE, Fortis, Pharmacia, SAAB British Aerospace and Volvo. He is a former President of the World Business Academy in Washington; a visiting scholar at the International Institute of Labour Studies in Geneva and a member of the EU international think tank on Social Cohesion.
As a business strategist, he has been involved in more than 30 successful corporate turnarounds and is the creator of one of the world’s most successful leadership development programs with over 100,000 alumni from 90 countries. He was a special advisor in government reform to President Fox in Mexico 2000-06 and was awarded the President’s Innova Award in 2007.
He has been an advisor to the Swedish Government for over a decade and was the leading consultant in the modernization of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs; he is a special advisor to NATO and the Folke Bernadotte Academy, a Swedish government agency dedicated to improving the quality and effectiveness of international conflict and peacemaking operations. He has been an advisor in innovation and organizational reform to the Governments of Australia, Ireland, Holland, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Thailand and Sweden. He is presently advising the United Nations Department of Political Affairs in Strategic Focusing for the prevention of violent conflict in international affairs.
He is a Member of the Global Leadership Council of Michel Nobel Harriet Fulbright Institute of Business Technology Management in USA; a Member of the Advisory Board of European Management Institute, London; a member of the British Institute of Directors; a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Club of Budapest. Brian is an Australian citizen, now resident in Oxford, UK.