Laurence Williams

at The UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

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The UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

Laurence is Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School. He is a highly experienced organisation & executive development specialist with a strong track record in the successful design and delivery of senior executive level programmes. He specialises in executive development with a focus on strategy development, leadership skills – with particular focus in the areas of organisation agility and strategy implementation.

He works with the senior commercial teams of executive development clients to assist them in their approaches to strategy development and implementation, linking scenario thinking with adaptive leadership. He was previously a full time member of faculty at Ashridge Business School and has delivered executive development programmes as visiting faculty at Smurfit Business School, Rotterdam School of Management and the Higher Colleges in the UAE.

Prior to moving into executive development in 1997, Laurence worked for fifteen years at two major multinational companies namely Dow and ICI.

Laurence’s research areas include the impact of leadership styles and personality on business performance – recently publishing “Performance in Sales – does personality matter?” – based on empirical research in the Financial Services Sector. He holds a BSc (hons) and PhD, as well as an MBA (with distinction). He is also qualified with the British Psychological Society to Level A & B and is an accredited practitioner in MBTI (Steps I and II), FIRO-B, SDI and ESCI.

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