Profiles & Interviews

'Biography broadens the vision and allows us to live a thousand lives in one.' - Elbert Hubbard

This section of the site contains brief profiles, interviews and book reviews. Many people learn best from observing other people. Role models, biographies, or just an interest in people and the way they do things, can help make any leader better at what they do.

The people here may have very different approaches to their work, but all are extremely sucessful and have achieved a culture of trust that breeds great results.

• Dame Stephanie Shirley, entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Sir Chris Bonington, mountaineer and leadership lecturer
• Rudolph W Giuliani, former Mayor of New York
• Sir John Harvey-Jones, business leader
• Terry Waite CBE, former hostage and negotiator
• Margaret Harrison CBE, Founder & President, Home-Start
• Sir Adrian Cadbury, business leader
• Tim Smit CBE, founder, The Eden Project
• Adrian Moorhouse MBE, business leader and Olympic gold medallist  

For reviews of recent books on leadership styles, see the 'Book Reviews' section on the toolbar menu.