Jonathan Foster-Pedley is the Dean and Director of Henley Business School, South Africa, part of Henley Business School UK, which holds triple accreditation from the US AACSB, UK AMBA and European EQUIS.

Prior to this he was a faculty member for strategy at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (GSB) for the MBA and other programmes. He is an education designer, academic, coach, learning facilitator and entrepreneur, and is a former airline captain, senior executive in the European aerospace industry and has over 30 years of global business experience. He is a visiting professor in strategy, creativity and innovation.

Jonathan is, or has been, designer and director of the Strategy Master Academy, Smart Strategy, Strategy Starter Kit and Creategy executive education programmes; designer and launch director of the d GSB Executive MBA; GSB head of Executive and Management Education; director and teacher of the MBA Strategy, Design and Creativity elective; director of leadership programmes in the international insurance, mining, brewing and hospitality industries amongst others, and is a speaker, blogger  and writer.

Areas of expertise: Strategy, learning, creativity, design thinking, innovation.  He specialises in innovative and rich learning design that develops cognitive rigour, imagination, originality, self-confidence, creativity and proactivity.  He integrates social networking and technology into the education process, and enjoys working in multidisciplinary design teams around difficult and complex learning challenges. He works extensively with action learning and reflexive learning models.  He recently presented a paper at the Future of Learning conference at Ashridge Management College, UK on the ‘Graphic Representation of Learning Design’.  He also works in the areas of international competitiveness; scenarios and scenario thinking; wargames and complex business simulations; entrepreneurship and business incubation.

He is active in establishing and designing international innovation centres - he has been launch director of the Southern Innovation Centre in New Zealand, on the advisory board of the New Zealand Centre for Innovation, on the New Zealand team for the Global Entrepreneurship monitor with London Business School, on the advisory board of the Namibian Business Innovation Centre etc. He was on the launch design team for TSiBA, Cape Town, based on the models used by CIDA in Johannesburg, where he led the entrepreneurship education design team.  He is also active in other spheres of education such as being chairman of the Executive Committee of a Montessori School, a speaker and participant in Africa Young leadership initiatives and coaches and mentors. .  He is involved in social entrepreneurship initiatives, bringing European executives to South Africa to work with a number of NGO’s, producing over 800 person days of free management consulting to ZA NGO’s in the last 6 years.

He consults and advises numerous companies including Accenture, PetroSA, SABMiller, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Old Mutual, De Beers, BHP Billiton, and PriceWaterHouseCoopers etc.  He collaborates with creatives, including comedians, musicians, magicians and designers as well as corporate and government executives. He works with a number of NGO and international agencies such as UNESCO, British Council, especially with international young leaders and youth-at-risk.

He is involved with a number of international business schools including Melbourne Business School, Australia, University of Adelaide in Australia, ProAkademy in Finland, and U21Global Singapore.  He is African director and part of the design team of the BHPBilliton Foundations for Graduates Programme, twice voted as the best graduate development programme in Australia by the Australian Association of Graduate Employers. He is owner and director of Foster-Pedley Learning and Huddlemind. These companies work in the fields of strategy, design, innovation, information analytics and interpretation, executive learning, innovation consulting, social networking for education, conferencing and social marketing. He works with Pentacle the virtual business school, an innovation educator in the UK.  He has consulted and designed education and action learning processes many industries with a range of major international corporations, with smaller companies, and with government and parastatals.

He has hands-on experience of international sales and marketing, and of participating in and leading multicultural sales and management teams. He was marketing director for a subsidiary of Airbus Industrie and sales manager Africa and Middle East for British Aerospace Plc, Commercial aircraft. He has worked internationally for 30 years, principally in Europe, Africa, Middle East, Australasia and the Americas.