Professor Javier Marcos Cuevas

Background

Javier is an inspiring management educator, researcher and consultant with 20 years of experience working in academia, consultancy and in multinational corporations.

He was previously the Director of Custom Programmes, Executive Education, and Senior Faculty at the University of Cambridge, Judge Business School. Prior to his career in academia, he worked for Unilever in management positions in Spain and in the UK. He is an accredited Belbin instructor.

Javier has a PhD in Management (Organisational Learning), a PCert in Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Higher Education (Cranfield University), and has completed the Advanced Leadership Programme (Cambridge University Judge Business School) and the International Teachers Programme (Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management). His education also includes a Postgraduate Degree in Training Management in Organisations and a Diploma in Advanced Studies in Social Psychology (University of Barcelona). He has a BSc (Hons) in Economics and Business Administration (University of Zaragoza).

Current activities

Javier is Professor of Strategic Sales Management and Negotiation at Cranfield School of Management and Director of the Key Account Management Best Practice Forum.

Javier brings a unique combination of practical and theoretical knowledge being a practicing manager, instructor and an active researcher. His expertise, firmly grounded in business and informed by the latest research, focuses on professional selling, sales and key account management, and executive education and development.

Javier is recognised for his innovative, stimulating and proactive teaching approach. Working with organisations in close partnership, he uses individually tailored approaches that facilitate clients' full engagement in the process of design, delivery and evaluation of training programmes and consultancy interventions. Combining insights from marketing, leadership and organisational development, Javier is able to help managers identify and realise meaningful business opportunities. He provides insightful advice to help executives understand and overcome the barriers that often constrain individuals' development and business growth.

Javier has recently co-authored three books, Implementing Key Account Management (Kogan Page, 2018), Sales Management - Strategy, Processes and Practice (Palgrave, 2016) and From Selling to Co-Creating (BIS Publishers, 2014). His research has been published in academic journals like Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Management Learning, Journal of Marketing Education, etc. He has written numerous professional reports and articles in the professional media and is a regular speaker at conferences and industry events.

Clients

He has worked for small and medium sized businesses as well as for large corporations globally such as Barclays, Cap Gemini, Merck, Pfizer, Rolls-Royce, SAP and Unilever.

Publications

• Articles in journals
• Conference papers
• Books