Derek Draper has worked as a leadership consultant, business psychologist and executive coach for nearly fifteen years. He is the co-founder and CEO of CDP Leadership Consultants and was previously Managing Consultant and Head of Business Development for the UK and Europe at the global consultancy YSC.
He has assessed and developed senior business people in around twenty FTSE 100 companies and in some of the largest privately held companies in the world. As well as working in the UK he has worked with businesses in Germany, the Nordics, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Africa.
Prior to this he worked in politics, as chief aide to Peter (now Lord) Mandelson, and was the founder of Progress, the centre-ground think tank. He was also an entrepreneur in the marketing and communications sector helping build and sell a public affairs consultancy to Omnicon and then co-founding an advertising agency which was sold to Cello.
Today, as well as leading CDP he has a small psychotherapy practice in Bloomsbury and is a Governor of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. He is an active member of the Association for Business Psychology (ABP). He lives in London with his wife, the TV and radio presenter Kate Garraway, and their two children, Darcey and Bill. He tweets @derekdraper and you can sign up to receive his regular newsletter at www.derekdraper.net/signup.