Dr. Alastair Macfarlane is an experienced management practitioner, consultant and academic who has been active in management for 30 years and in organisational consultancy for 18 years. He studied management and business before working in both the private and public sectors as an operational manager. Returning to study, he took an M.A. degree in Industrial Relations and gained his doctorate focusing on international strategies of human resources management, the research for which he undertook in Southern Africa.

In 1980 Alastair became a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and subsequently at Fairleigh Dickinson University and St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. He delivered undergraduate and post graduate programs in organisational behaviour and human resource management and developed a number of international programs. He also undertook research and consultancy, much of which was international. He is a member of the British Sociological Association.

Alastair now devotes his time to providing organisational development consultancy to international corporations. He specialises in the following areas: Strategic Human Resource Management, Assessment of Organisational Development Needs, Change Management, Management Development, Executive Assessment, Coaching and Counseling, International Leadership, Conflict Management, and Team Building and Facilitation.