THOMAS CUMMINGS LEADING VENTURES B.V

Kerkstraat 83, Wassenaar • Netherlands +(31) 643 557 488 • cummingstom@yahoo.co.uk

Tom Cummings is an Executive Board and senior management adviser. He is also a creative partner, designer and process facilitator for strategic visioning, business performance and leadership development programs. He works both independently and in collaboration with faculty from leading business schools and consulting firms. Tom is known for his ability to bring new insights, sharp contrasts and fresh perspectives to his client engagements. His methods are client centered, and he draws on 25 years of experience with leaders and teams across a range of academic disciplines, industries and types of engagement. For many assignments, he uses a framework: ‘leadership landscapes’ described in a book authored with Dr. James Keen in 2008 (Palgrave Macmillan). Tom has had various roles in academe, corporate and charitable trusts.

Tom is currently co-directing the Cambridge Judge Business School executive development program on ‘Futures Thinking’ and lecturing on the Corporate Supervisory Board program at Nyenrode Business University. Previous 5 year assignment as academic lecturer and research fellow at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he served as director of the program on Business Alliances and wrote award winning case studies and peer-reviewed articles/book chapters on strategy, and organisation innovation through network collaboration. Tom has completed a BA from University of Puget Sound, in the USA, and graduate studies at the University of London, in the UK, and IMD in Switzerland. He is certified to work with a number of diagnostics and methods.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Tom has founded of several successful companies, including:

Cambridge Energy Research Associates, with James Rosenfield and Dr. Daniel Yergen Technology Resources Group, with John Austin and James Botkin Paras Ecos, with Paul Gilding Executive Learning Partnership Leading Ventures, B.V.

EXECUTIVE ROLES

2000- 2010

Executive Learning Partnership – Founder and Chairman

2001 - 2004

Unilever – Global Head of Learning and Organization

1999- 2001

ABN AMRO Bank- Executive Vice President for Leadership Development

1991- 1996

Shell International- Business Planning and Leadership Development

INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES • AEGON – Top 30 Global Leadership Program, design adviser, outside program director 2nd year • ASML – Design of Management Team engagement program • ABN AMRO –Organisation Learning Architecture, designer of numerous programs, facilitator

of Executive Board retreats and cultural integration programs. • BEKAERT – Senior Leadership Meeting, advisory to the HR team responsible for Leadership

Development • CORUS - Managing Director's Seminar on Industry Structure and Strategic Alliances • CITIBANK Asia Pacific Electronic Banking: Strategic Use of IT, Manila, The Philippines • COMPASS GROUP - Executive Board Retreats, 8 year assignment, Management

Development Program, Achieving Our Common Future, Module II and Leading Change Modules III.

• DANONE INTERNATIONAL, Medical Foods Division; Reflections and implications for the future of work

• ERGO, Munich RE – design of senior leadership program, needs assessment for future programs, fireside chats with the Chairman of Munich Re.

• FORTIS BANK – Leadership for Growth Program, Integration program, various board retreats, designer, faculty;

• GE - Young Leaders Program, Faculty, Crotonville, NY, USA; Action Learning in Central Europe

• GENZYME – Design of Organisation Development interventions, Executive Coaching • GOLDMAN SACHS – Design team member, Goldman Sachs University ‘Pine Street

Leadership School’ • ING – Leadership Landscapes program, Private Banking Program, Seville, Spain • KPMG - Future Scenarios in the High Technology Practice • MOMENTUM INSURANCE – Top Leadership Program, Executive Board Retreat,

Cultural Implications of M&A • MTN– Exco roadmap for transition, coaching and design for the Global Leadership Conference,

Senior Management program with GIBS Business School two times yearly.

• PHILIPS NV- Design and delivery of more than 50 engagement workshops linked to survey

results; Brand 1000 initiative with University of Chicago; Executive retreats with Philips Design; facilitated Sustainable Cities project; co-designed programs and toolbox with Leadership Development team

• P&O NEDLLOYD - 10 Strategic Change Management Workshops, Managing Board Off-site facilitator

• PWC – Partner Program and Manager Development Program on Leading International Teams • NIBC–Executive Board Retreats, Managing Director Program, Investment Management

Program • SANTANDER – co-designer of several leadership programs • SHV – Senior Management Retreat, Leadership Programme for 6 years • SHELL - four year internal assignment - Advanced Management Programme, Senior

Executive Leadership Seminar, Group Change Consulting Consortium and GOLD team (Group Organisation & Leadership Development), EP phase 1 transformation, Action Learning for Management Development

• SSP – Top 50 retreat and action planning for world’s largest airport food service company • TNT – TPP program for Executive Board Potentials • TRIODOS– established new alliance, facilitated priority setting, Co-workers Conference,

Exec Board adviser • UNILEVER– External adviser, program design, faculty • UNISOURCE– (KPN, Telefonica, Telia, Swiss Telecom) Joint Executive

Development Programme • ABN AMRO/SHELL/IBM/UNILEVER – Challenges for Change Programme, Faculty and

Design consultant BUSINESS SCHOOL AND INSTITUTIONAL PROGRAMS AND ASSIGNMENTS Currently co-directing the Cambridge Judge Business School executive development program on ‘Futures Thinking’ and lecturing on the Corporate Supervisory Board program at Nyenrode Business University. Previous 5 year assignment as academic lecturer and research fellow at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he served as director of the program on Business Alliances and wrote award winning case studies and peer-reviewed articles/book chapters on strategy, and organisation innovation through network collaboration. Tom has completed a BA from University of Puget Sound, in the USA, and graduate studies at the University of London, in the UK, and IMD in Switzerland. He is certified to work with a number of diagnostics and methods. • AMBROSETTI - in collaboration with John O’Neil, Leadership Readiness Screening • Cambridge University - Judge Business School, Futures Thinking Program, 2x yearly, on-going • Pretoria University Gordon Institute of Business, MTN GAP program, Practice Development

Workshops for Executive Development programs • IMD - Workshop on Business Alliances, Strategic Management of Innovation, various executive

programs • Nyenrode Business University – New Board Program, Executive MBA, International MBA • London Business School – Systems Thinking • Imperial College – Workshop on Business Alliances – with David Norburn • INSEAD – EABIS program, various in-company programs • Case Western Business School – Leadership Landscapes collaboration and design

NON-PROFIT, CHARITY, GOVERNMENT • ALIA (Authentic Leadership in Action) Program design and delivery for new European

program with Marcello Palazzi • Authentic Leadership in Action Network – Former Member of the Board • Bioneers – Designing from Nature – European Program designer and facilitator • Common Purpose International – Board Member, Board Retreats, various programs • European Climate Foundation – Establishment of Vision and Values for the organisation. • FMO – Dutch Development Bank – Exec Board Scenarios, C-ROADS Sustainability program • Forum for Active Philanthropy - Advisor • EDFI – European Development Financial Institutions – developed strategy for 17 Bank

consortium • Global Alliance for Banking on Values – CEO yearly meeting, Zeist, NL, Dhaka, Bangladesh

and Lima, Peru and designer, faculty, Value Ambassador Program with Katrin Keufer, Presencing Institute, MIT

• Natuur College, Personal reflections on sustainability with Her Royal Highness Princess Irene of the NL

• Netherlands Foreign Office on Issues of Sustainability, Development and Economic Prosperity'

• Progressio Foundation, Board Member • Tallberg Forum – Advisor and Faculty • Tallberg Foundation – New Leaders Program – 5th year, with Charles and Liz Handy, Sean

Germond • YPO – Young President’s Organisation, Global Conference - Strategic Choices and

Sustainability • Greenland Climate Change Journey, program leader with Active Philanthropy and Tallberg

Foundation RECENT PUBLICATIONS “In Search of Practical Wisdom” chapter in Political and Civic Leadership, a reference handbook, Edited by Richard A. Couto, 2010, Sage Publications Leadership Landscapes, Palgrave MacMillan, 2008