Professor Barry Curnow is a consultants’ consultant and Group Analyst based in London, England.  He specialises in strategic advisory, leadership and organisation work and provides coaching, counselling and mentoring for professional service firms and their clients. He has spent his career in the building, buying, leadership and selling of consulting firms and knowledge-based businesses internationally. 

He is currently Immediate Past Chairman of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (Chairman, 2003-5), Principal of the Maresfield Curnow School of Management Consulting, and a Past President of both the Institute of Management Consultancy and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in the UK (formerly IPM).