Speakers

Gerald Ashley, Business Risk, Change & Decision Making Consultant


Gerald Ashley is a consultant on Business Risk, Change and Decision Making. His particular interest is in the nature of change and how individuals and groups react to it and what are the most appropriate management tools and strategies. This includes applying concepts from behavioural economics and complexity science when advising businesses on their decision-making and risk taking strategies.

In addition Gerald’s work concentrates on practical advice for decision makers on how to understand the big trend changes in business; and how our own biases and behaviours affect the way we either succeed or fail in new environments. His aim is to educate people to understand how they and others approach future challenges and how they can improve their performance as individuals and as groups.

Gerald is Managing Director of St. Mawgan & Co which he co-founded in 2001, a London based consultancy specialising in risk management, strategy consulting, and modelling in business decision making and risk taking.

Prior to setting up the consulting firm he had nearly thirty years experience in international finance, having worked for Baring Brothers in London and Hong Kong, and the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. 

Gerald is a Visiting Fellow at Newcastle Business School and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts.

Publications

• Two Speed World – The Impact of Explosive and Gradual Change, It’s Effect on You and Everything – Published by Harriman House - November 2010.

• Financial Speculation – Trading Financial Biases and Behaviour – Published by Harriman House – May 2009. 

 Gerald has a regular column with Financial-i magazine called Upfront.