Visiting Senior Fellow in Governance and Enterprise Growth
School of Business, Leadership and Enterprise
Margaret Exley CBE BA (Econ) MSc
Margaret is well known as an expert on change management and business growth and is frequently retained as an advisor to UK Boards. Margaret is Chairman of SCT Consultants which specialises in Board effectiveness and change leadership and Associate Director and founder of Stonecourt, which specialises in helping organisations to understand and embed “high growth” practices.
Margaret has extensive experience in dealing at CEO and Board level in significant organisations in the public and private sectors. She has particular expertise in board operation and effectiveness. She was a contributing author to ‘Building Better Boards’ by David Nadler and she has worked on board effectiveness with a variety of organisations including Costain, Corus, BTG, National Grid and several major government departments
Margaret is a serial entrepreneur, having successfully founded and built several very successful businesses. The first of these was Kinsley Lord, the first change management consultancy in the UK, which she founded in the mid-80s, grew to a sizeable business, with a significant UK presence, and sold in the mid-90s. She then went on to become Chief Executive of Towers Perrin’s European consultancy business, and founded Delta in the UK in 2001. She set up Stonecourt in 2007 and SCT in 2011.
Margaret has experience and expertise on business growth and led a significant piece of international research in 2005-7 on the characteristics of high growth businesses. She founded Stonecourt to advise companies on how to embed such practices and built a strong
international practice working with companies as varied as Heineken, Telefonica, AOL, and Twinings.
Margaret has held a number of public service and non-executive roles, including being the first non-executive member of the Board of HM Treasury. She was awarded a CBE in 2001.
Margaret is originally from Sheffield, has two grown up children and lives in West London. She is a Fellow of the RSA and is a founding member of their Spotlight Group which provides support to a network of social entrepreneurs to help them launch and grow their businesses. She contributes on the London Business School corporate turnaround and entrepreneurship programmes