Neil D Stewart
37A, Chew Brook Drive, Greenfield,
Oldham, OL3 7PD, UK
Telephone (mobile): 07973-483749
Telephone (office): 01-457-878880
Fax: 01-457-871996
Imagomanagement@CompuServe.com
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Neil has an MA in Natural Sciences and MSc Chemistry. He has an extensive senior managerial experience in sales, marketing and business leadership in major international business within a large corporation. He got also expertise in consultancy to improve organisational performance (soft systems, management cybernetics, environmental management systems) in public and private sectors. He has developed and delivers a teaching programme at Manchester Business School and he is an active consultant to major international healthcare Company (SSL International plc) for specialist recruitment and other management services.

In the area of management he had an important leadership position in the restructuring of a mature chemicals business which involved (a) developing and initiating strategic responses to a desperate business performance, (b) developing positive, market-led initiatives within a broad environment of business retrenchment and (c) managing the human and organisational implications of numbers reduction (50%). As a consultant he contributed to developing a small consultancy practice (Imago Management) with supporting networks of other consultants and academics, with expertise in systems methodologies. He has also established a well-regarded "Environmental Management and Corporate Strategy" option for second-year MBA students at a leading Business School, which uses Systems Dynamics and Soft Systems Methodology.

He has produced several publications relating to research carried out in support of the above activities focusing on new approaches to management problems. Also he has delivered papers to each of the last 4 UKSS International Conferences and published a paper on work on Business Teams in ICI in Systems Practice (1997) and a paper on Sustainability (jointly with Raul Espejo) published in Systems Research and Behavioural Science (1998), both using VSM as the core systems idea.

Currently he is a freelance consultant and teacher (Imago Management) and a Visiting Fellow at Manchester Business School.