Host Profile - Dr James Cowley

Dr James Cowley
Position: Strategist, Innovator and Trends Analyst
Organisation: Business owner/Investor/Entrepreneur
Website: N/A
Expertise: Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment

Past Positions: He now splits his time between:
  1. Joint venture in Australia between one of his previous companies, a leading Australian strategic research company and a leading European future trends company.
  2. Ad hoc strategic consulting projects, qualitative research, facilitation, chairing SIGs and similar.
  3. Hands on mentor for Directors/Executives of a small number of fast growth companies and philanthropic ventures.
  4. DBA and PhD examining (12 to date) and supervising.
  5. Keynote speaking at conferences on trends impacting the sustainment of business profitability (organizations he has built are now 38, 35, 17 years old).
Qualifications: PhD Business & Management, University of South Australia, 1999
Master of Education, Nottingham University, UK, 1980
Bachelor of Arts, The Open university, UK, 1976
Involvement: N/A
Interests: Mountain walking, travel, saxophone, growing vegetables/fruit, cooking, cheese making, bread making, silver and enamel work, writing and training top grade researchers.
Balance: By recognising that all pleasures or stresses in life are what I create in my mind, and the way I respond to it , and then using the process I have developed to continually re-balance.
Networking: The more people you meet , the more you have confidence in the basic goodness and potential that is out there once people come out from behind the images they try to create.
Motivation: At this stage of my career I have a strong commitment to try to help people see the world they live and work in clearly and dispel the many myths which society and the media often inculcate in us and which impact our business and life decisions.