DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN?
He’s corporate management’s best-kept secret – but to anyone else he could be Adam. For multinationals worldwide, Dr. Eddie Obeng is a lethal weapon in their battle to succeed in the ‘New World’ of global economics. He stands between them and the growing graveyard of corporate stalwarts trapped by ‘Old World’ thinking. You only know him if you are in the know.
Obeng, founder of Pentacle (1994), is the ultimate corporate insider. He advises the ‘big boys’ of commerce and industry who respect his expertise and embrace his no-nonsense direction on how to improve the performance of managers and business.
So it’s not surprising if you haven’t heard of him – unless creating and executing strategies designed for the New World Economy ‘rocks your world.’ Obeng was described by the Financial Times as an “agent provocateur,” and by The Daily Telegraph as the “Max Headroom of the business world” He turned his back on traditional academia seven years ago, leaving his post as an Executive Director of Ashridge and, using his own finances, established the world’s first virtual business school, teaching techniques for industrial survival and success in the ‘New World’. Obeng created the School as a living experiment for his management approach, tools and techniques, and to prove the practicality of the ‘virtual working’ he espouses. He has since launched a series of 12 business cyber clubs where like-minded professionals can brainstorm, network, learn and relax as part of a virtual community.
Obeng’s track record is impressive as a conference speaker, an academic, an author of over six books, a futurist and a larger-than-life ‘New World’ pioneer. Forward-thinking organisations worldwide including American Express, BBC, BAT, Dell, IBM, Lotus, Sony, Salomon Smith Barney, Microsoft and Unilever to name a few have seized his practical solutions to help them grow, evolve and survive in the ever-changing global economy of the ‘New World’. This ‘New World’ guru takes a fun approach to learning. But his message is ominously clear when he says: “The future is now – because most of us are already late.”
Please contact Susan Ross on +44 (0) 1494 678 555
http://PentacleTheVBS.com
susan_ross@pentaclethevbs.com
eddie_obeng@pentaclethevbs.com
20 London End Beaconsfield, Bucks HP9 2JH UK
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Dr. Eddie Obeng is available for presentations, on all aspects of New World economics; ‘New World’ thinking, Implementing and executing change, Virtual organisation creation, e-commerce, business education | Eddie Obeng Personal
Date of birth - 15th July 1959
Married to Susan. Lives in the U.K.
Education
B.Sc. (Chemical & Biochemical Eng.) First Class, University College, London (2 Scholarships)
MBA (International Marketing) City University, London
Ph.D. University College London (Scholarship, Kitson Prize)
Book Publications
All Change!, Putting Strategy to Work, Making Re-engineering Happen - Financial Times Publishing
New Rules for the New World - Wiley Publishing
Never Reorganise Again!, Money Making Machine, Perfect Projects, Soundbytes - Pentacle Works
Translations into Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Indonesian, German
Contributions to Book Publications
First and second editions of Financial Times Handbook of Management
Gower Handbook of Training and Development
Patents held/ Process Design registrations
Sour gas treatment using Thiobacillus ferrooxidans, 2 Patents 1985
Lowest energy use vegetable oil refinery/ margarine processing, Purfleet U.K. Won Euro Award 1988
Career Milestones
1983 Shell International Senior Scientist
1985 March,Senior Consultant
1987 Ashridge Managment College,Assisant Tutor
1990 Ashridge Management College Board Member
1994 Founder,Pentacle http://PentacleTheVBS.com
Directorships
Ashridge Management College, Executive Director Operations & Information (1990 -1994)
NWL Mental Health Trust,Non Executive Director (1990 - 1995)
Pentacle (1994 - Current)
Media
Presenter - Your Business, Money Channel TV
Monthly Column - Project Manager Today
Presenter - Open College Process Management, Business Channel Start-up, Relax-with-a-Book
Other Qualifications
Private Pilots Licence (Helicopter)
Pentacle clients include
SONY, Dell, Boots The Chemists, Microsoft, Abbey National, IDEO, Alcan, American Express, Bank of Ireland, British American Tobacco, Simmons & Simmons, ICL, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever. |