Russ is an award-winning expert in leadership and Principal Director of Leadership and Culture at Accenture. Russ has spent his career leading large global teams both at Accenture and as a business leader in organisations such as GSK and City & Guilds. His practice focuses on enabling clients to build the leadership and culture to underpin enterprise-wide transformation. The Marketing Society Award for Excellence was won under his leadership and he led City & Guilds into the Top 100 Superbrands for the first time. Russell graduated with a Management Degree from Brunel University, studies leadership at Henley Business School and is a qualified executive coach with the EMCC. He has three young children and a passion for the outdoors which keep him busy in his spare time.