TOM LLOYD is a management writer and author. He is a former editor of Financial Weekly and Management Today, was founding editor of Gemini Consulting's quarterly management journal Transformation and wrote the 'Working Brief' column in The Sunday Telegraph for several years. Tom has written five books, including Managing Knowhow, with Karl-Erik Sveiby (Bloomsbury 1987) and The 'Nice' Company (Bloomsbury 1990). He was also the co-author of the successful A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom and A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom: The Roadmap with Peninah Thomson and Jacey Graham (Palgrave 2005, 2008).

Tom's intellectual curiosity leads him to spot key issues well before they become mainstream. Thus he brings an element of  'thought leadership' to NBS, where he has already given a guest lecture in 2010 on the topical issue of executive remuneration.

Tom's second guest lecture for NBS, on 9th February 2012, entitled 'China's Management Revolution'. This will be based on a book Tom has ghost written for  Charles-Edouard Bouée (President of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Asia) about an emerging Chinese management style set to challenge the current dominant Anglo-Saxon approach.