Jonathan Foster-Pedley is the Dean and Director of Henley Business School, South Africa, part of Henley Business School UK and the University of Reading. He is an international speaker of note, bringing a witty, engaging, interactive style to his presentations. Jonathan is used to addressing CEOs and senior managers in... Read more
Jonathan Foster-Pedley is the Dean and Director of Henley Business School, South Africa, part of Henley Business School UK and the University of Reading.
He is an international speaker of note, bringing a witty, engaging, interactive style to his presentations. Jonathan is used to addressing CEOs and senior managers in numerous companies including Allan Gray, Accenture, PetroSA, SABMiller, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Old Mutual, De Beers, BHP Billiton, Glacier Financial Solutions and PriceWaterHouseCoopers.
Jonathan is an education designer, academic, coach, learning facilitator and entrepreneur, and is a former airline captain, senior executive in the European aerospace industry and has over 30 years of global business experience. He is a visiting professor in strategy, creativity and innovation, a blogger and writer.
Areas of expertise: Strategy, learning, creativity, design thinking, innovation. He specialises in innovative and rich learning design that develops cognitive rigour, imagination, originality, self-confidence, self-belief, creativity and proactivity. He has hands-on experience of international sales and marketing, and of participating in and leading multicultural sales and management teams. He was marketing director for a subsidiary of Airbus Industrie and sales manager Africa and Middle East for British Aerospace Plc, Commercial aircraft. He has worked internationally for 30 years, principally in Europe, Africa, Middle East, Australasia and the Americas.