Staff profile

Dr Simon Haslam, PhD, MBA, C.Dir, CMC, FRSA

Biography
Dr Simon Haslam is strategy consultant working with an international client base comprising public, private and third sector enterprises. He is Programme Lead for Strategy at the Institute of Directors (IoD) and Chair of the Academic Fellows at the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI).
He is a Chartered Director, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Advisory Committee at the Institute of Consulting.
Simon owns the market and social research firm FMR Research Ltd, whose work has been cited in Westminster and Scottish Parliaments. He is a Certified Management Consultant and double-finalist in the CMI/Institute of Consulting UK ‘Consultant of the Year’ awards. His firm was nominated to represent the UK in the 2012 Constantinus International (International Council of Management Consulting Institutes) awards.. He is the founding editor of the academic journal, Management Consulting Journal. Simon also teaches and supervises post-graduate studies at the Irish Management Institute, Strathclyde Business School and Stirling Management School.
Contact: simon@consult.co.uk or simon.haslam@durham.ac.uk
Research
Simon’s research interests are strategic decision-making and consulting skills.
Publications (books)
• Consulting Skills for Social Researchers (2017), Policy Press
• Strategic Decision Making: a discovery-led approach, co-written with Dr Ben Shenoy (2018), Kogan Page
• Strategy for Directors (2020) handbook for the Institute of Directors
• Leadership and the Board, Strategy and the Board (2021), co-authored chapters with Prof Alexander Van der Putte in Corporate Governance 3.0, TGF Books
Links
www.simonhaslam.com
www.strategicdecisionmaking.com
Mini Biography
Dr Simon Haslam is an international strategy consultant. He leads the strategy programme at the Institute of Directors and Chair of the Academic Fellows at the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes.
Research Interests
• Strategic decision-making
• Consulting skills