Martin Newman

Martin Newman

Newman in July 2011
Born (1963-10-17)17 October 1963
Nagpur, India
Education University of Cambridge
Occupation Writer and Communications Adviser

Alban Martin James Newman (born 17 October 1963) is a UK based writer and adviser on leadership, communications and design.[1] He was described by the Financial Times as the "secret weapon" behind Russia’s winning bid to host the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.[2]

Career

Leadership

Newman’s work on the themes of confidence[3] and of leadership through crisis[4] is widely cited.[5][6] In 2008, he founded The Leadership Council to bring together some of the UK's most senior leadership experience as a research and thought leadership body.[7] Chaired by Lord Janvrin, the members of the Council are Ed Butler, Jonathan Chenevix-Trench, Simon Davies, Iain Ferguson, The Hon. Mary-Jo Jacobi Jephson, Val Gooding, Anthony Gordon-Lennox, Tony Hall, Lady Judge, The Earl of March, David Richards, Sir John Scarlett, Sir Tom Shebbeare, and Lord Watson.[8]

Newman (far right) working with, from left to right: Alexander Zhukov, Russian Deputy Prime Minister; Vitaly Smirnov, International Olympic Committee Representative; and Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian Sports Minister

Newman developed the message and strategy for electoral participation in the first post-Saddam national elections in Iraq, through a series of war-zone workshops in Baghdad.[9] The elections that year saw an unprecedented, and subsequently unrepeated, 72% voter turnout.[10]

Newman is currently Senior Partner at The Leadership Agency, a leadership communications consultancy based in London.[11]

Design

Newman worked as Content Editor of the Millennium Dome,[12] commissioning Zaha Hadid’s first major built UK project – The Mind Zone.[13] He went on to be Creative Director for a Sony Award Winning Expo Pavilion at Swiss Expo 2002, The Empire of Silence.[14][15]

Fair Trade

In 1989, Newman joined Richard Adams (the Traidcraft founder), Paul Johns (former CND chair) and others to establish the Fairtrade Mark, and became the first Director of the Fairtrade Foundation.[16][17] Newman ran the first Fairtrade office from the spare room of his small London apartment, helping to create the basis for a major social enterprise with annual sales figures for Fairtrade certified products in the UK nearing £1bn.[18]

Early life and education

Newman was born in Nagpur, India in 1963. He studied English Literature and the History of Art at Peterhouse, a college of the University of Cambridge, where he won an open scholarship, the Sir Geoffrey Ellis Essay Prize, and the Bishop White Thompson Reading Prize.

In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[19]

Publications

Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.theleadershipagency.com/our-expert-team.asp
  2. ↑ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1267ef48-2e7e-11dc-821c-0000779fd2ac.html#axzz1dOo3twap
  3. ↑ Martin Newman (July, 2009), 'Seven Types of Confidence', ISBN 978-0-9561113-1-9
  4. ↑ Martin Newman (November, 2008), 'Shaken But Stirred: The ten commandments for leaders in tough times', ISBN 978-0-9561113-0-2
  5. ↑ http://essentialeducator.org/?p=5368
  6. ↑ http://www.internalcommshub.com/open/managers/casestudies/coag.shtml
  7. ↑ http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2781509&authType=name&authToken=yVtI&locale=en_US&pvs=pp&trk=ppro_viewmore
  8. ↑ http://www.theleadershipagency.com/the-leadership-council.asp
  9. ↑ http://www.theleadershipagency.com/our-expert-team.asp
  10. ↑ http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=2460
  11. ↑ http://www.theleadershipagency.com/default.asp
  12. ↑ http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199900/cmhansrd/vo000728/text/00728w54.htm
  13. ↑ http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=p2901ed
  14. ↑ http://www.lsionline.co.uk/news/story/Expo-02/-7ER76B
  15. ↑ http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?referral=other&pnum=82&refresh=8Tm01d2Fn4Q1&EID=6e03d042-360b-4ceb-a652-e2999735fd42&skip=&p=82
  16. ↑ http://www.brightoncollege.org.uk/senior-community-links.asp
  17. ↑ http://www.theleadershipagency.com/our-expert-team.asp
  18. ↑ http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/what_is_fairtrade/facts_and_figures.aspx
  19. ↑ http://www.theleadershipagency.com/our-expert-team.asp
  20. ↑ http://www.theleadershipagency.com/pdf/Not_Shaken_But_Stirred.pdf
  21. ↑ ISBN 978-0-9561113-0-2
  22. ↑ http://www.theleadershipagency.com/pdf/Seven_Types_Of_Confidence.pdf
  23. ↑ ISBN 978-0-9561113-1-9
  24. ↑ http://www.theleadershipagency.com/pdf/Quick_Quick_Slow.pdf
  25. ↑ ISBN 978-0-9561113-2-6
  26. ↑ http://www.theleadershipagency.com/pdf/Hoping_to_rise_or_fearing_to_fall.pdf
  27. ↑ ISBN 978-0-9561113-3-3

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