Andy Cross

Andy is an experienced Consultant and Executive Coach with a track record of working with leaders to achieve the transformational change necessary to deliver business growth, with specialisms in strategy execution, organisational design, creativity and customer experience. Before joining Hult Ashridge Executive Education, Andy worked in a range of Executive HR, transformational and operational roles at Virgin Atlantic, BT, Colt and Unum Provident. In addition to his corporate experience, Andy has worked with clients such as Astellas Pharma, Thyssenkrupp, Octopus Investments, Dassault Systemes and Cardiff Metropolitan University.

Andy specialises in People strategy and HR transformation as the function strives to connect with the business and add real value, developing the organisation design, working practices and capabilities to achieve lasting change. In addition to this, Andy has led the creation of Learning Academies in several organisations including BT and Virgin Atlantic.

Andy is part of the Ashridge faculty focused on people strategy development and implementation, creativity and innovation and employee experience.

With a degree in Economics from the University of East Anglia, Andy also has a Masters in Organisation Development from Roffey Park, is an AOEC qualified Executive Team Coach and uses the Hogan Assessment Series to develop leaders and team performance.