Douglas A. Ready President, ICEDR, and Visiting Professor, London Business School Doug Ready founded and leads ICEDR, the world's premier global learning network in human resource development. Dr. Ready serves as a Visiting Professor at London Business School and is an author of many articles on leadership development. Doug is an active consultant, helping CEOs, top teams, and senior executives develop organizational and leadership resources, and HR development practices, to sustain global competitiveness. He has worked with the top teams at RBC Financial Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Continental AG, Samsung Group, LG Group, and the U.S. Federal Reserve System, helping them forge cohesive strategy and implementation plans for their newly reconfigured firms. Doug's most recent research, World-Class HRD, examined 45 major global corporations around the world to identify excellent human resource development and organizational capability building practices. He is an expert in building leader-led development initiatives.