Facilitation

CLA meetings will be facilitated by Geoff Marlow, CEO of Aligned Agility Ltd. Geoff has 25 years experience as a consultant, coach, change catalyst and learning facilitator across the aerospace, automotive, biotech, chemicals, consumer products, energy, financial services, government agencies, healthcare, high-tech, IT, media, professional services, transport, and utilities sectors in Europe, Asia and North America.

Prior to setting up Aligned Agility in 2001 he was a Corporate Director with Arthur D. Little (ADL) – a 3,000+ person strong global professional services firm at the forefront of innovation and organisational learning. Before that he held positions with Cambridge Consultants, BBC Engineering and British Aerospace in design & development engineering, project management, group leadership, business development, leadership development, executive coaching, innovation consulting and team facilitation.

His past clients include: ABB, Akzo Nobel, AIB, Alstom, ARM, Barclays Bank, BBC, Bevan Brittan, BG, BP, Britannia Building Society, BT , Caterpillar, Daimler, Danfoss, Douwe Egberts , e.on, Gambro, GE, Generali, Grace, Hitachi, Hungarian Government, Johnson & Johnson Kowloon Canton Railway, LABEIN, London Underground, Ministry of Defence, Mitsubishi, National Grid, NCR, Nera Communications, North West Water, Orbit Communications, Philips, Polish Government, Rhone Poulenc Rorer, Rolls-Royce, Royal Mail, SCA, Schindler, Shell, 3i , Transport Research Laboratory, Unilever and Xaar.

Geoff has an honours degree in Systems Engineering, is a Chartered Engineer (C Eng) and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET). A skilled organisational learning practitioner, Geoff worked with Dr Peter Senge’s world-leading consulting team for several years following its merger with ADL in 1995. He is a qualified Appreciative Inquiry (AI) practitioner, trained by AI co-founder Jane Magruder Watkins. Geoff is also highly skilled in improving business performance using the Unwritten Rules of the Game approach developed by polymath and former colleague Dr Peter Scott-Morgan. He was trained and coached in Crucial Conversations, Crucial Confrontations and Silence Fails approaches by VitalSmarts CEO Andrew Shimberg. Geoff is a graduate of the Meyler Campbell Business Coach Programme, accredited by the WABC – the only global coaching accreditation body that focuses 100% on business coaching.

From 2003 to 2007 he was also Programme Director and Learning Facilitator for The Concours Group's flagship Living Strategy and HR Directors leadership and learning membership programmes.

His focus on maximising the learning of CLA members emphasises the following:

Holding your individual and collective learning as the top priority
Not preserving your comfort zones at the expense of your learning
Empathising with your point of view, experience and challenges
Not sympathising with your perspective to the detriment of other perspectives
Holding up a mirror in which to see yourself more clearly
Not papering over cracks where deeper learning seems possible
Exemplifying the CLA values of openness, wisdom, humility and integrity

Geoff has been based in Cambridge since 1983 and Aligned Agility has been a corporate member of the Cambridge Network since 2002