Dr Ian Cunningham

Ian chairs the Board of Trustees of the Centre for Self Managed Learning.

He created Self Managed Learning in the late 1970’s. He was the first person to be awarded a PhD in Management Learning from the University of Lancaster. He has published nine books and over 150 articles and papers in areas such as education, learning, leadership and organisational change.

He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Utah, Middlesex University, the Technical Teacher Training Institute, Bhopal and most recently in Organisational Learning at Kodolányi János University of Applied Science, Hungary. He set up Strategic Developments International Ltd, a consultancy working across all corporate sectors. He is now its honorary President. He has acted as a learning consultant to most of the world’s largest international companies as well as to the UK National Health Service, Government departments and local authorities.

He is a dancer with the Three Score Dance Company in Brighton. His last educational qualification (2011) was to qualify as an oxy-acetylene welder.