Nigel Paine has been a Masie Fellow since 2006 when he was awarded the title of Masie Learning Thought Leader. He is now a Masie Learning Fellow.

Appointed in April 2002 to head up the BBC’s Learning and Development operation where he built one of the most successful learning and development operations in the UK. This included an award winning Leadership programme, state of the art informal learning and knowledge sharing and one of the most successful and well-used intranets in the Corporate sector. All this while managing the largest broadcast training operation in the world.

He left the BBC in September 2006 to start his own company that is focussing on promoting creativity, innovation and learning and the link between them. He speaks at conferences around the world and writes for a range of international publications. He is also coaching senior executives in companies in Europe, Australia and the USA.

He drives people mad with his infectious optimism about the power of learning to transform both individuals and organisations and is a great believer in innovation as a means of constant renewal.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development and the Royal Society of Arts and has been a visiting Professor at Napier University since 1998.

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