Professor John Curran empowers senior leaders and their teams to develop dynamic and collaborative organisational cultures that connect their values with those of their employees and wider stakeholders. John achieve's this by using his expertise in the social sciences, group dynamics and systems psychodynamcis with process consulting, executive and systemic team coaching and training.
He works globally and across industries; from Fortune 500 companies, to public sector and charity organisations.
He is a Professor of Practice at University College London (UCL), an associate consultant at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, and a visiting scholar at the Royal College of Art in workplace design and anthropology. He is fellow at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), a TEDx speaker and his thinking and work often appears in the Financial Times. He regularly is invited as a guest lecturer at Kings College London University Business School to speak at their Executive Leadership programmes.
John hold's a PhD in Social Anthropology and has formal training in organisational process consulting, executive coaching (EMCC EQA), systemic team coaching, facilitation, qualitative research, conflict mediation and group psychoanalysis.
SPEAKING
I give key note talks on a number of cultural topics relating to Organisational Culture, Leadership, Innovation, Consumer Trends, Customer Centricity Anthropology, Architecture & Design.
To book me to give a talk to your company go to contacts to arrange a chat.
SELECTED TALKS
May 2019
Creating a Customer Centric Culture
Knauf Insulation Marketing & Sales Conference, Belgrade
June 2018
Finding The Peacock: The Rise of Male Nationalism
Cultural Insight Forum at Mother Ad Agency
June 2017
Moving from an ‘Insight Anxiety’ Culture to a ‘Solution Thinking’ Culture
Marks & Spencer’s Insight Festival
July 2014
Office Space Design through Anthropological Thinking
Royal College of Art (RCA)
Oct 2018
Embracing Conflict: Designing for Culture
Service Design Days, Barcelona
June 2018
Becoming a Customer Centric Organisation
Cass Business School, MBA Course
March 2017
Why Culture is Messy and Why That's Good
TEDx
July 2014
Behaviour Change, Consumer Culture and the Importance of Anthropology
Kimberly Clark
Sept 2018
Male Allies: How To Be a Powerful Advocate for Inclusion
Everywoman
June 2017
Anthropological Insights to Value Propositions
Knauf, General Managers Meeting, Croatia
June 2016
Deconstructing Cultural Mess: How Anthropology works in Innovation
J.Walter Thompson (JWT)
Sept 2013
Big Data or Big Ethnographic Data?: Positioning Big Data within the Ethnographic Space
Royal Institute of Great Britain, Ethnographic Praxis in Industry (EPIC)