Tudor Rickards is Director of Residential Executive MBA programmes within the Federal School of Management, Manchester. He has published extensively, won numerous awards in his specialist areas of study, and holds the position of Professor of Creativity and Organizational Change at the Federal School. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Kiel and Buffalo, New York, where he retains the Alex Oxborn Visiting Professorship. Tudor is also editor of the Blackwell journal of Creativity and Innovation Management.