Introducing David Ross - international VUCA strategist, organisational peacemaker and founder of Phoenix Strategic Management
David Ross is best known as an international strategist and peacemaker, helping leaders, organisations and communities successfully deal with their most complex – and often, controversial – issues. He not only coaches leaders on how to successfully navigate shocks and crises, but also leads the difficult conversations with staff, local communities and those on the margins of society about our biggest challenges, ensuring all stakeholders have a chance to be heard and giving him a unique insight into the true impact of leadership.
David is Founder of Phoenix Strategic Management. Over the last 30 years he has influenced and enabled numerous client organisations to transform and transcend the management of the complex social and environmental issues most organisations are struggling with around the globe. He works with organisations and those affected to confront the old ways, creating innovative and measurable breakthroughs. Having worked on an array of contentious and heated social, environmental and economic issues including the performance of government departments, the societal impacts of pollution, access to freshwater, energy and mining, crime, drought management, waste management, economic development and the sustainability of communities and regions, he is able to straddle all situations from the C-suite through to the poorest of communities.
Confronting The Storm
David is also author of Confronting the Storm: Regenerating Leadership and Hope in the Age of Uncertainty which draws upon David’s vast experience working across government policy, corporate strategy and community sustainability to shine a light on how conventional leadership wisdom is causing so many well-intentioned strategies to fall short. He then gathers fascinating exclusive insights from leaders across the globe (including a former Prime Minister, a former Foreign Secretary and one of Fortune magazine’s ‘50 Greatest Leaders’) who are successfully Confronting the Storm to outline the key traits and skills leaders today really need to succeed.
Confronting the Storm is an eye-opening book that will challenge the thinking of leaders and aspiring leaders alike, whether they are in business, politics, the public sector, sustainability or any other field.
