Ben Thompson-McCausland MA

Ben is an executive coach with ECC. His business career began at Coopers & Lybrand where he qualified as an accountant, before joining a merchant bank. He was then invited to become Managing Director of London Life, an old-established life assurance company. After six years he was approached to become Group Managing Director of National Provincial building society.

Ben works as a consultant in leadership, planning, coaching and the effective deployment of resources. He sometimes describes himself as a corporate Dynarod! Active in the Industrial Society he makes frequent appearances at leadership courses, as well as occasional appearances at: Management Centre Europe; Ashridge College; London Business School; the City University MBA Programme; Tom Peters and other seminars; Moscow School of Political Studies. He delivered the 1985 Gresham Lecture at the City University, and the 1997 John Loxham Lecture to the Institute of Quality Assurance. He was until recently chairman of the British School of Osteopathy, and a director of Harefield Hospital.