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Dr Paul Taffinder is the Director of Strategy & Innovation at MS Amlin. He joined the firm in 2015. Paul is a member of Group Oversight Committee, the MS Amlin Executive Committee and the Group Operations Committee.

The creation of this new role recognized the enormous amount and pace of change affecting our industry as well as MS Amlin’s ambitions to increase its standing as a true leader in our markets, backed by the global strength of MS & AD Insurance Group. He is responsible for leading our Strategy & Innovation unit, including MS Amlin EDGE, to take advantage of disruptive trends, FinTech, change in the industry and technology more widely.

Paul was also the Founder and Managing Partner of Taffinder Consulting, which he ran for 10 years, specializing in CEO advice on strategy, leadership, change and organizational performance. Previously, he was a partner at strategy firm Marakon Associates, a partner on the UK Management Board of Mercer Delta and, prior to that, was a global partner at Accenture, the $30 billion consulting firm, where he was head of Organization and Change Strategy in the UK and had an international role in the firm’s work on leadership, innovation, culture change and top team effectiveness.

Following a Masters degree and PhD in organizational psychology – and what he describes as a ‘mercifully brief career in the mining industry’ – Paul turned his attention to the psychological driving forces that underlie the world of business. He is the award winning author of “Big Change: A Route Map for Corporate Transformation” (voted Business Management Book of the Year in 1999). His other books (published by Kogan Page) are “The New Leaders” (1994) and “The Leadership Crash Course” (2000) and the recently updated, revised edition of “The Leadership Crash Course: How to Create Personal Leadership Value” (2006), released in 11 different languages worldwide.

He is also a Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths College, University of London, sits on the Advisory Board of the University’s Prospect & Innovation Research Unit, and is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.