Derek Draper has worked as a leadership psychologist, executive coach and psychotherapist since 2004. He is the author of Create Space: How to Manage Time and Find Focus, Productivity and Success. He is the co-founder and chief executive of CDP Leadership Consultants and was previously Head of Business Development for the UK and Europe at the global consultancy YSC. He has assessed and developed senior business people in twenty FTSE 100 companies and in some of the largest privately held companies in the world, including across the UK, Nordics, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Africa. He also runs a psychotherapy practice and is a Governor of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.