Robert Poynton

Robert Poynton is an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. His work there is practical not academic: he designs and runs executive education programmes, helping senior leaders understand and work with complex change via a playful approach drawn from the methodology of improvisational theatre. His own clients include the BBC, Chanel, Merck and Unilever. He is the author of Do Pause: You are not a To Do list (2019) and Do Conversation: There’s no such thing as small talk (2024). And the founder of Yellow, an online learning experience designed in response to the participants rather than a pre-determined curriculum. He has been a contributor to The Skoll World Forum and Singularity University Global Summit. He has led courses on leadership, change and complexity at the IE Business School in Madrid, Ashridge Business School and Schumacher College. He is married with three grown up sons and divides his time between Oxford and an off-grid house in rural Spain.

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