Dr Greg Park spent over twenty five years in senior executive roles within financial services. Initially with National Westminster Bank and Lloyds TSB in the UK, subsequently in senior roles with global and regional banks in the Arabian Gulf and Middle East, responsible for strategy, marketing, sales and service quality management, product, market and business development, remote, expatriate and Islamic banking. Park holds degrees from the University of London (Monetary Economics), Lancaster and Dublin City universities (Marketing Management and International Strategic Marketing) and a doctorate in International Strategic Leadership from the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, University College Dublin. He is Managing Director of PCM Consulting, specializing on leading within cross-border and global contexts and a principal of Oxford Strategic Consulting. Greg is a guest speaker in International Strategic Leadership and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management, where he advises on a number of expert panels.
'Greg Park's book Collaborative Wisdom: From Pervasive Logic to Effective Operational Leadership engagingly connects the world of the practitioner to relevant scholarly concepts in this welcome practical contribution to effective operational leadership. Moreover, it is particularly timely within the context of today's increasing questioning of prevailing leadership values, principles, and practices. It does so by clearly illustrating how best in class organisational performance can be consistent with universal values and communal principles, through the application of practical and collaborative wisdom. I warmly recommend this thought-provoking, sometimes contentious, and always insightful book which replaces the prevailing emphasis on smart thinking with an emphasis upon the wise in the process of the operational leadership decision-making process.'Patrick C McEvoy, Former Chairman, K and H Bank, Hungary and former Chief Executive and Chairman, IIB Bank plc, Ireland'Dr Greg Park has produced a highly readable and useful account of what ethical collaborative wisdom is and its importance to strategic leadership of the modern enterprise. In doing so, he provides many deep insights into leadership and management based upon research and over thirty years of international business experience. I expect his advocacy of soft hearted, hard headed pragmatism will resonate with managers, post experience business students and leaders alike. I very much enjoyed this book.'Professor Patrick C. Flood Dublin City University Business School, Ireland