Contact Dr Phil St John Renshaw
- Email: Phil.Renshaw@cranfield.ac.uk
- Twitter: @PhilRenshaw1
- Blog: http://www.coachingonthego.co.uk/blog
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Background
Phil started his career in international banking working in London, New York and Sydney. He then moved into the corporate treasury and corporate finance world, going on to become a Finance Director in the IT sector. Soon after he tuned into the important fact that people, and hence people skills, generate the numbers. And with that insight, he launched a new career. He is now a management and executive coach, leadership development facilitator and, through his research, an expert in the value of international assignments.
His greatest passion is teaching leaders the skills of coaching to use in every day life.
Research opportunities
Organisations predominantly remain incapable of demonstrating the value of their international assignment (or expatriation) programmes. These programmes are based on a belief-system and the management of these programmes is generally through cost not value. Despite this lack of knowledge, the use of international assignments, whether long-term or otherwise, is increasingly widespread in global organisations facing talent shortages around the world. Phil's research focusses on what the value of these interventions is, how it is created and where it sits. And hence ultimately how we can practically help organisations evaluate and increase the positive impact of these vital assignments. More recently Phil has expanded this research to include aspects of leadership.
Current activities
Phil is active as a facilitator and coach in Cranfield Executive Development programmes including, for example, Developing Leadership Potential.
Phil provides facilitation, coaching and supervision support into the Executive MBA, the full time MBA, the Masters in Management and the Mastership programmes in Business Strategy and Leadership. His main focus is the provision of coaching support and the teaching of coaching skills for leaders.
Having been the Co-founder of CRANIUM, a student-led PhD researcher support group, he now jointly runs the School of Management's peer-to-peer mentoring programme.
Phil delivers a regular Masterclass for PhD students on the impact of your philosophical perspective on your research. He delivers this at other universities as well as annually at the BAM (British Academy of Management) Conference Doctoral Symposium.
Alongside his co-author Jenny Robinson (Coaching On the Go), Phil is an interviewer for a series of podcasts for Cranfield alumni called Leadership On the Go launched January 2020.
Clients
A wide range of clients providing facilitation, leadership development and coaching/coach training over the years including Novartis, Veolia, Capgemini, PwC, National Trust, NHS, UnLtd and more.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Renshaw P St J, Dickmann M & Parry E (2022) The value of international assignments through the lens of real-options-reasoning, Journal of Business Research, 151 (November) 423-434.
- Renshaw P St J, Robinson JR & Rason J (2022) Global mobility: Leadership requires presence, International HR Advisor, 89 21-22.
- Robinson JL & Renshaw P St J (2022) Place - the final frontier: Exploring the outer reaches of collaborative agency using the Japanese concept of Ba, Leadership, 18 (1) 13-39.
- Renshaw P, Parry P & Dickmann M (2021) The organizational value of international assignments - The relational underpinning, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 32 (1) 106-146.
- Renshaw P St J & Robinson J (2021) Work, what is it good for?, Coaching Today, October 2021 13-17.
- Renshaw Phil, Parry E & Dickmann M (2020) International Assignments – extending an organisational value framework, Journal of Global Mobility , 8 (2) 141-160.
- Renshaw P St J, Robinson & J (2020) Leader as Coach, Coach as Teacher, Coaching Today.
- Renshaw P (2017) Listen up to manage down, Financial World, April/May 40-41.
- Renshaw PStJ, Parry E & Dickmann M (2017) Seconded national experts and global mobility - extending the paradigm, Thunderbird International Business Review, 60 (November/December) 897-909.
- Renshaw P, Dickmann M & Holland D (2016) Between two worlds: coaching employees on international assignment, Coaching Today.
- Renshaw P (2016) A surprising link between creating global leaders and social value., Social Value & Intangibles Review, April 2016 42-44.
- Renshaw P (2016) Tripping Up, Accounting and Business, March 2016 62-63.
- Renshaw P, Dickmann M & Ghobadian A (2015) How secondments could improve regulation, The Banker.
- Renshaw P (2015) See the other side, Treasurer.
- Renshaw P (2013) The Death of the Lecture, The Journal of Professional Scholarship in Banking and Finance, 1 62-71.
Conference Papers
- Renshaw P, Dickmann M, Parry E, (2019) The value of International Assignments through the lens of real-options-reasoning. In: EURAM Conference (LISBON), Lisbon, 26-29 June 2019.
- Renshaw P St J, Robinson J, Parry E, Saunders MNK, (2018) Standing in the shoes of giants: teaching research philosophy. In: British Academy of Management (BAM) Annual Conference 2018, University of the West of England, 4-6 September 2018.
- Renshaw P, Parry E & Dickmann M (2018) The Value of International Assignments as Microfoundations of Dynamic Capabilities. In: EURAM Annual Conference, Reykjavik, 19-23 June 2018.
- Renshaw P St J, Dickmann M & Parry E (2017) The Organisational Value of International Assignments – A Systematic Literature Review. In: EURAM 2017: 17th European Academy of Management Annual Conference - Making Knowledge Work, Glasgow, Scotland, 21-24 June 2017.
- Renshaw PStJ, Dickmann M & Parry E (2017) The organizational value of international assignments: A systematic literature review. In: EURAM 2017: 17th European Academy of Management Annual Conference - Making Knowledge Work, Glasgow, Scotland, 21-24 June 2017.
- Renshaw P St J, (2016) Seconded National Experts and Global Mobility - extending the paradigm. In: EIASM 6th Workshop on Expatriation, Catania, 15-16 September 2016.
Books
- Robinson JR & Renshaw P St J (2022) Teaching research philosophy: a game changer. In: Innovation in the Teaching of Research Methodology Excellence Awards: An Anthology of Case Studies 2022, Reading: Academic Conferences International Limited, p. 47-60.
- Renshaw P & Robinson J (2020) On being Donald Trump: How gamification helps research philosophy make sense. [OR] the surprising link to your research philosophy.. In: The voice of educators and education students, Department of Education, Brunel University London, p. 16-24.
- Renshaw P & Robinson J (2019) Coaching On the Go. How to lead your team effectively in 10 minutes a day. Pearson Education Limited.