Dr. Yury Boshyk

Adviser, educator and author, co-founder and director of Global Executive Learning, and Visiting Professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also Chairman of the Global Executive Learning Network, a worldwide community of practitioners, lecturers, authors, thought leaders and corporate executives who work together to foster and deepen executive education in leading organizations.

Yury Boshyk specializes in assisting organizations to better understand their external environment, and in the design and the delivery of strategic learning and leadership development programs and “learning” interventions.

Since 1990, he has helped design and implement business driven action learning executive programs with General Electric and other leading multinationals. He chairs and organizes an annual Global Forum on Executive Development and Business Driven Action Learning, a “by-invitation-only” gathering of representatives from multinational companies (www.GlobalForum2005.com).

Yury Boshyk’s other area of expertise is in assessing the external environment of business, and future trends affecting companies and countries. He publishes in this area and lectures on these subjects in both company-specific executive programs, as well as in academic and government institutions throughout the world. He has been interviewed on television and radio for the BBC, CBC and other agencies, often appearing as a guest speaker for corporate and other meetings.

Present research is focused on two areas—geopolitical and other trends in the external environment of business, and on how companies and institutions can use organizational learning and leadership development for strategic advantage.

He has published studies, books and articles that deal with these subjects as well as historical works on twentieth century topics. His more recent articles have been on organizational action learning (published in Jim Bolt ed., The Future of Executive Development) and knowledge management in multinationals (published in the Financial Times, London), and on emerging markets in the World Competitiveness Report (published by the World Economic Forum and IMD). Among his latest books are Business Driven Action Learning: Global Best Practices, (2000) and, Action Learning Worldwide: Experiences of Leadership and Organizational Development (2002).

His most recent clients include:
  ABB, ABN AMRO, Alcan, Allied Domecq, BASF, Baxter Healthcare, BHP Billiton, the Boeing Corporation, The Brookings Institution, Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Dentsu Communication Institute (Japan), Deutsche Post World Net, DHL, Eli Lilly and Company, Exxon, First National Bank (South Africa), General Electric, Honeywell, IBM, Institute for Public Administration (Ireland), Intel, Investor (Sweden), Johnson & Johnson, NovoNordisk, PanAsia Paper (Singapore), Pirelli, The RCMP (Canada), SABMiller, Shell, Standard Bank (South Africa), Tata Group (India), TeliaSonera, Volvo Car Corporation.

Formerly, Professor of Strategy and the International Environment of Business at IMD (International Institute for Management Development), Lausanne, Switzerland (1989-1996); professor of Geopolitics and Strategy, and Director of Executive Learning, at the Theseus International Management Institute in the Sophia Antipolis Science and Technology Park, France (1996-1999); he was an adjunct faculty member at the Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. From 1977-88, assistant professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto; and 1983-85, assistant professor, Department of History, Harvard University Summer School.
Yury Boshyk completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford, his Master's degree at the London School of Economics, and his B.A. at the University of Toronto.
He is listed in the Marquis' Who's Who in the World, as well as The Futurist Directory, and Harvard's International Directory of Business and Management Scholars and Research. He is a member of the Academy of Management, the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), and the Royal Institute of International Affairs (London) and the World Future Society. He also serves on the advisory board of Novare Act AB (Investor) in Sweden the J. Huber Institute for Learning in Organizations at Columbia University, and Executive Development Associates in the USA. In 1989 he received a citation from the Mayor of Toronto for his contribution to the Mayor’s Committee on Community and Race Relations.

Yury Boshyk was born in Toronto, and is a Canadian citizen living with his family in the south of France and Ottawa, Canada.

18 December, 2005

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