Professor Clive Holtham

National Teaching Fellow 2003 Professor Clive Holtham has been closely involved for nearly two decades in leading-edge approaches to creativity and innovation. This has included projects funded by large international companies, the UK government and the EU. He has been an adviser to the European Parliament on e-learning, and was named as one of the UK's top 3 'e-tutors of the year' by the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2001. As part of the conceptualisation of the new building for the business school, he extensively researched the nature of space for knowledge work. He has been one of the leading architects of the 'electronic boardroom', involving the use of information technology by executives in meetings. In 2002, he was appointed as the inaugural Director of the Cass Business School Learning Laboratory, which researches and implements novel approaches to management learning. Professor Holtham co-developed a ground-breaking and successful MBA module on 'The Art of Management' which uses approaches taken from the fine arts to gain new insights into management and leadership. He was co-founder and a board member of the innovative informal learning network knowhownonprofit.org and in 2010 was co-chair of the Learning in Higher Education international conference on 'Creativity in teaching and learning'. Professor Holtham is author of a large number of publications, and lectures, broadcasts and consults in the UK and internationally.