History
The Evolution of Oxford Leadership Academy
In 1983, Brian Bacon created a management consulting arm
of the US advertising giant DDB Needham, which later became
International Pacific Consulting (IPC). In the early nineties,
Brian developed the 'Strategic Focusing®'
model, integrating strategic business planning with leadership
development and executive performance management, as well as 'The
Eye of the Storm' executive coaching programme to focus top
management. IPC's Self-Managing Leadership programme was also
incorporated into Strategic Focusing and formalised as a culture
change process. A non-commercial form of Self-Managing
Leadership® (SML®) was later created as a free community
service. This period involved major international consulting and
leadership development programme assignments incorporating
Strategic Focusing and SML (for example, with the top 500 global
leaders of Volvo), and the pioneering of the Oxford
Leadership Development programme.
The Growth of Strategic Focusing
The late 1990s saw significant expansion of Strategic Focusing®, and
the incorporation of Self-Managing
Leadership in major corporations and public sector agencies.
Oxford IPC Worldwide was subsequently appointed by President
Vicente Fox and the Government of Mexico to support the
Governmental reform process. This involved conducting Strategic
Focusing and Self-Managing Leadership with over 25,000 Government
officers, including the Office of the President and many Federal
Ministries. People and culture change consulting processes were
also undertaken with the Governments of Brazil and Chile.
Supporting Global Turnaround
In 2003, Oxford IPC supported McDonald's
people-and-culture-centred global turnaround strategy, which
included developing the company's 'Plan to Win' Strategic Focusing
process, and personally mentoring CEO Charlie Bell and the European
and Global management teams.
Formation of the Oxford Leadership Academy™
The Oxford Leadership Academy was later formed in the UK,
Denmark and Hong Kong to provide integrated leadership and
executive development programmes. Throughout the new millennium,
the Oxford Leadership Academy has expanded rapidly, attracting
major consulting and executive development assignments such as:
McDonald's Europe, Coca Cola, Unilever, Barclay's, BP, Telefónica,
Girl Scouts USA, Fortis, Horwath International, Akzo Nobel,
Layetana and Sandvik.
The Innova Award
In 2007, Oxford Leadership Academy received the 'Innova Award'
from President Fox for services to the Mexican Republic during his
term in office.
Brian Bacon receives the Innova award from President Fox
Future Developments
Oxford Leadership Academy has recently entered an exciting phase
of up-scaling and development for a major global expansion of
Academy operations in 2009/10. Alongside the constant development
of our leadership training programmes, we are actively engaging the
next generation of leaders with our Oxford Leadership Youth
Programme. This is designed to help young people to be more
aware of their own potential and also of their responsibility to
society.
The Oxford Leadership
Youth Programme
Clients
Our previous and current clients in the Fortune 100 corporations
include Unilever, McDonald's, Telefonica, SAAB, Akzo Nobel and
many more. Public sector clients have included the Governments of
Australia, Ireland, Holland, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Mexico,
Thailand and Sweden. We have also worked with NATO, the ILO and the
United Nations.
Portfolio of
Clients