Mike Townsend

Mike Townsend is CEO with Earthshine Group, and is an influential business and economic transformation leader, with forty years of experience in business, supply chain, consultancy, education & training, across a wide range of sectors and countries.

Mike has worked with a wide range of businesses, large and small, in all sectors in UK, Europe and North America, including: Aviva plc, BAA, Birmingham Business School, British Airways, Barclays Bank, BLOOM/Government of Ontario, Copenhagen Business School, DIS-Copenhagen, eBay, Environment Agency, EY, Glanua, IKEA, Life Technologies, LoyaltyOne, Lund University, Mace Group, McNicholas plc, Myrtha Pools, Norsk Ombruk, Northeastern University, Severn-Trent Water, Thames Water, Triodos Bank, and many others, including Paul Polman at Unilever.

Mike is author of The Quiet Revolution (Routledge, forthcoming), lead author on Don’t Waste Your Time on Net-Zero (forthcoming), editor of Reframing the Game (2015), lead author of A Journey in Search of Capitalism 2.0 (2013) and co-author on Strategic Procurement in Construction (1998). He is also a regular contributor for Edie.net, Sustainable Brands, Huffington Post, The Guardian, Medium, and others.

Mike holds an MBA from the University of Birmingham Business School (UK), a bachelor degree in Civil Engineering Management from the University of Wolverhampton (UK). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK), and Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (UK).

Mike also enjoys family life, hiking, swimming, reading, listening to music, playing rock drums, practicing mindfulness, and is a lifelong supporter of Birmingham City FC.