Based at the University of Oxford since 1994, Keith Ruddle researches, teaches and advises top management teams from private and public sector organisations – many internationally – on strategy and change. His doctoral research in the 1990s was on leadership of transformational change and his recent research interests have been on strategic renewal, large scale change and public service reform. He is also an Associate Fellow at Said Business School and an Emeritus Fellow at Green Templeton College.
In the public sector, in 1996/97, Keith designed and co-led a leadership programme for the UK Labour Shadow Cabinet. In 2000 he was seconded to the UK Cabinet Office to advise on public sector leadership. Other advisory work on change included the former Department of Trade and Industry, the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs, the Audit Commission, and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs where he was on the Chairman’s External Advisory Group.
In 2004 he contributed to the Social Market Foundation’s book on Reinventing Government Again. In June 2006 he chaired the Cabinet Office conference on 21st Century Public Services for the National School of Government. From 2006 he worked with the Department of Health Board on leadership and Board development, with the NHS Chief Executive on leadership, change and the NHS Constitution, and a number of local NHS Boards.
From 2013–17 he has been a senior faculty on Oxford’s Major Projects Leadership Academy for the Cabinet Office, and leadership programmes for overseas governments. He has supported the Institute on their development work with politicians.
Before joining Oxford, Keith spent over 20 years in industry with British Aerospace and as a senior partner at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), working on major change programmes in public and private sector.
