Ian Johnston

Senior Vice President

Ian is well known among Senn Delaney clients for enabling CEOs to lead with vision and clear purpose. His work allows leaders to connect their vision to their organisational culture, and inspire their organisations to achieve strategic goals with vitality and engagement. For the past 10 years, he has working closely with CEOs, senior executives and their teams across a broad range of industry sectors in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. He has worked in more than 30 countries in the last five years, helping global companies to shape consistent cultures at both the global and local level.

Ian brings an eclectic mix of business experience, an adventurer's spirit, a coaching and learning mindset and a fascination with the scale and complexity of multinational companies to his work.

He has developed a number of successful culture-shaping processes that have improved the spirit and performance of several client organisations. He has worked with GlaxoSmithKline for seven years, consulting and advising senior executives on shaping their global culture. Recent clients also include Anglo American, T-Mobile, Shell, Honda, JPMorgan Chase and Hutchison Whampoa. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and in-house events.

Prior to joining Senn Delaney, Ian had more than 20 years of diverse business experience and adventures. After graduating from university, he worked with disadvantaged youths in the North West of England. He lived in the Mont Blanc region of the French Alps, leading groups to climb and ski. He was the performance coach to a round-the-world yacht crew. He taught in Liverpool at the time of the Toxteth riots, which proved an interesting experience of facilitating difficult situations. Ian also taught at Templeton College Oxford and lectured at IMD in Lausanne.

In 1990, he founded his own consulting practice in the UK, devising and leading large-scale assignments to deliver strategic and organisational requirements for such clients as Honeywell Bull, Rover Group, Asda, The Civil Aviation Authority, Associated British Foods, Lotus Cars, Zurich Financial Services and Eagle Star. This varied experience provided him deep grounding and diversity that is useful in working with global companies.

Ian is a graduate of Liverpool John Moores University. He lives with his wife and three children in Cheltenham, UK. He enjoys sailing and skiing with his family and has a life-long love of the outdoors. He has recently been on mountaineering trips to the Antarctic and the Himalayas.