Professor Paul Brown

Paul has a long-standing interest in the development of senior individuals within corporate systems; careers; and the family management of landed estates. After an early career in the NHS and a research PhD in 1979 he has subsequently been managing director of a career counselling company in London, Paris and Geneva; has sat on the private banking board of a merchant bank; has been a director of a private property investment company and Director of Adaptive Research for Penna Consulting plc.; and is currently a Trustee for two landed estates.

His main professional fascinations are in establishing fear-free organisations; the nature of the Self; the effective use of the endless supply of profitable energy that human beings can create under the right conditions and why organisations jam that up; the restoration of complex individual and organisational relationships when they are under stress; and the neuropsychology of leadership. He is part of a small US-based research and applications team that has developed a web-enabled methodology for mapping complex adaptive systems in real time, based upon how people perceive what is happening. This is an approach to molecular management.

Paul has published three books, including Managing Meetings; over thirty scientific papers in academic journals; and has contributed to twelve edited books, including The Oxford Companion to the Mind. He has most recently wrtitten in 'China Review' on the implications of neuropsychology for the socio-political development of China.