Professor John Amaechi OBE is a respected organizational psychologist and the Leadership Transformation Expert at APS Intelligence Ltd, the consultancy he founded in 2006. At APS Intelligence, Amaechi and his team of specialists partner with businesses to build bespoke programs focused on executive coaching and behavioral change that help create effective leaders and authentic and ethical cultures. This is what Amaechi believes leads to sustainable organizational growth and high performance while ensuring the dignity and well-being of all colleagues.

Recognized as an influential thinker in HR, Amaechi is an honorary Professor of Leadership at the University of Exeter Business School in the United Kingdom. The author of the New York Times and the Sunday Times bestselling leadership book, "The Promises of Giants," Amaechi draws on his early life in Stockport, near Manchester (UK), his career as the first Briton to play professional basketball in the NBA and deep psychological insights, to challenge and inspire others. In doing so, he continues to be driven by the words his mother once used to inspire him when she said that: “The most unlikely of people in the most improbable of circumstances can become extraordinary.”

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