Drew Jones was trained as a cultural anthropologist, receiving his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For the past ten years he has been a university lecturer and organizational consultant to businesses in the US and the UK. He taught anthropology, management, and organizational behaviour at the University of Alabama, Birmingham for many years, and more recently he has been Lecturer of Leadership in the Department of Management Learning and Leadership at Lancaster University Management School in the UK. He is currently Lecturer in the Management of Organizations at Texas State University.
He has consulted with companies in the food and drinks industry, construction and building, executive education, software, for-profit education, and sports-management. He has worked with the innovation agency, Aquifer Design, which develops tools and technologies for innovation, and with the innovation practice at Mettle Group. Mettle Group, which has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, and London, is an organizational consultancy that helps companies to align strategy with culture and leadership.
He has published articles in magazines including Leadership, Culture & Organization, Organizational Dynamics, Human Organization, Consulting Times, and Professional Manager. This is his first book.