Nigel joined Saïd Business School in 2017 and works with a range of clients on leadership development and coaching-related programmes. Before joining, Nigel’s background bridged academia and the City. In academia Nigel led inter-disciplinary research projects in Europe and Asia as an Oxford Senior Research Fellow, examining group dynamics, hierarchy, power, agency and cultural change. Since 1997, he then worked in Professional Services Firms, initially in a client-facing role at PricewaterhouseCoopers and, for the last 13 years, in talent development roles at two global law firms.

In these law firms Nigel was Global Director of Learning and Development, responsible for designing and implementing talent development strategies. Nigel also continued his work with academia (law faculties and business schools) developing innovative workplace learning degrees and executive programmes for global clients, often embedding coaching into them. An accredited executive coach, Nigel’s expertise is in leadership development. Nigel has also led organisational development initiatives as law firms respond to the disruption in their industry, including the creation of the first ‘Innovation Hub’ in a global law firm as a client-facing collaboration space, helping the firm to evolve its future service delivery and working with the legal tech community to drive this initiative.

More broadly, Nigel co-chaired the UK’s national body of Legal Education professionals (the Legal Education Training Group) for a number of years, working with international business schools to conduct research into coaching, leadership development and strategy. Nigel also held Board roles at International Higher Education Research Institutes and at the ACCA, and is a Visiting (Industry) Professor at the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London. At Oxford Nigel is a member of Saïd Business School's Coaching Community and coaches on the MBA and executive development programmes.