Kingston Business School Visiting Faculty Lecture Series: Dr Alan Watkins

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Time: 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Venue: Room 0026, Business School (ground floor), Kingston Hill campus, Kingston Hill, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT2 7LB
Price: free
Speaker(s): Dr Alan Watkins, international expert on leadership and human performance

Kingston Business School is delighted to open its doors for a series of thought-provoking lectures, designed to showcase the expertise of our Visiting Professors and Fellows.

We welcome our students, staff, alumni and the wider business community to attend these exciting events and to join us for networking drinks following each lecture.

The lectures will start at 6pm on campus, with the networking reception running from 7pm-8pm.

Our next guest speaker will be Dr Alan Watkins. 

 About the speaker

Dr Alan Watkins is recognised as an international expert on leadership and human performance. He has a broad mix of commercial, academic, scientific and technological abilities. Over the past 24 years he has been a coach to many top business leaders and worked with the GB Olympic squad, coaches and athletes prior to London 2012 and Rio 2016. Originally trained as a medical doctor at Imperial College in London he worked for 11 years in the UK's National Health Service, in primary care in Australia and for a year in academic medical research in the USA. He ended up in Neuroscience research before leaving medicine to work with global business leaders.

Alan has helped companies treble share price, enter the FTSE 100, salvage difficult turnarounds and establish market leadership in their industry. He has coached many executive teams to significantly greater levels of performance, transformed organisational cultures, helped leaders discover their purpose and identify new ways to succeed. He is an inspiring and entertaining keynote and his TEDx lectures have attracted over 8 million views.

In addition to his medical degree Alan also has a first class degree in Psychology from the University of London and a PhD in Immunology from Southampton University, UK. He has written numerous academic papers, published in peer reviewed scientific journals. He is the author of ten books on topics from leadership to how to solve the world's toughest problems and he has three more books in preparation.

For further information about this event:

Contact: Lucy Raymond
Email: lucy.raymond@kingston.ac.uk