David Bentley

David has many years of experience working in business planning and improvement through change management at the corporate level both in the private sector and embedded with public sector organisations, with a multi-national engineering consulting company and more recently in delivering organisational and cultural change programmes as an independent consultant.

As a Chartered Civil Engineer, his background is in construction planning and managing projects in the highways, water and power sectors. Working on the introduction of IT systems and quality management led to a career in business and change management and a Director level position with a major international engineering consultant, working on highways network management, in the UK and Australia.

David returned to the University of Hertfordshire to study for an MBA in 1994 where he studied under Professor Ralph Stacey working from Chaos Theory, through Complex Adaptive Systems to Complexity Theory. He went on to complete a PhD in Business taking a complexity view of construction management.

Working now as an independent business consultant, author and visiting University Lecturer David is focused on Change Management, Business Improvement, personal development and training. His consultancy work has involved a diverse range of organisations from providing business planning and support to local charity groups through small not-for-profit organisations to transformation projects for global companies and the provision of management training in the nuclear reclamation sector.