Dr Steve Morlidge

Steve Morlidge has 30 years of practical experience in designing and running performance management systems in Unilever, including three years as the lead of a global change project. He is a former chairman of the European Beyond Budgeting Round Table and now works as a public speaker and consultant, drawing on his years of experience at the leading edge of performance management thought and practice.Steve has previously published Future Read, (John Wiley, 2010), The Little Book of Beyond Budgeting (Matador 2017), The Little Book of Operational Forecasting (Matador 2018) and Present Sense (Matador 2019). He is a visiting fellow at Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, UK. He also serves as a member of the Beyond Budgeting Institute’s non-executive board and on the editorial board of Foresight, a forecasting practitioner’s journal published by the International Institute of Forecasting to which he regularly contributes. He is also a cofounder of CatchBull, a supplier of forecasting performance management software. As well as being a qualified accountant, Steve has a PhD from Hull Business School in Yorkshire, UK focusing on the application of systems concepts to the design of complex organizations.He lives just outside London, with his wife.