Alan is currently Chairman of Timeless Management Group and a non executive director of Berkeley Group Holdings plc and Capital and Regional plc. He is also non executive director of the the Royal Air Force.

His previous roles have included: Chief Executive Officer of Historic Royal Palaces and Wembley plc; a Member of the Executive Board of Compass plc; a Non-Executive Honorary Chairman of INCLUDE (charity) and NW London Training and Enterprise Council; a Trustee of The Prince's Foundation and the Greenwich Foundation; a Member of the Advisory Forum of Saïd Business School, Oxford University and Non-executive Director of Carillion plc; Metroline plc; and KPMG.

Alan's new book Great Britons on Success (Kingsham Press, 2009) is now available. He is also co-author of Timeless Management (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). He is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is also currently a member of the Greening Management steering group set up by the Chartered Institute of Management and a member of the RAF board standing committee. He has lectured at universities and spoken on leadership, organisational structure, culture and change.

Alan has been a Patron of the Windsor Leadership Trust since 2003 and supports the Trust because of its unique approach to leadership development through peer learning with a cross-public/private sector cadre in a historic setting, which facilitates thinking. He has facilitated and spoken on a number of Trust programmes.