Current Teaching

A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) who has mentored five colleagues in attaining FHEA and SFHEA status. Neil is an award winning teacher with extensive experience of teaching strategy related subjects to executive, MBA, MSc, and UG audiences. Neil is committed to teaching excellence and curriculum innovation, evidenced by outstanding student feedback, multiple teaching awards, and a track record of transforming the student experience. Neil has extensive experience directing undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including joint honours degrees, and has led both new programme launches and re-launches.

Neil has taught courses on strategic management, scenario planning, behavioral strategy, managing strategic change, corporate strategy, mergers & acquisitions, strategic leadership, and consultancy.

External Roles

External Examiner for Imperial College London's MBA programme.

Professional Role

Neil is the Doctoral Director for the Entrepreneurship & Strategy Department at Lancaster University Management School, and is a member of the departmental leadership team. Neil also chairs the Lancaster University Management School Income Generation Group.

Neil's previous leadership experience demonstrates a broad range of capabilities. He has directed doctoral programmes (DBA Director, Doctoral Work-in-Progress Convenor), led student recruitment initiatives, and driven strategy for business partnerships and community engagement. Prior to his academic career, Neil led multi-million-pound, cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

PhD Supervision Interests

I would love to hear from prospective PhD students interested in topics such as the underrepresentation of women in mergers and acquisitions, strategic decision making, the psychology of strategy, behavioral strategy, upper echelons theory, top management teams, and strategy implementation.