Dr Steve Morlidge

Dr Steve Morlidge has 30 years of practical experience in designing and running performance management systems in Unilever, including three years leading a Beyond Budgeting initiative for the company and is a member of the of the Beyond Budgeting Institute core team.He has been associated with Beyond Budgeting since its inception and is a former chairman of the European Beyond Budgeting Round Table. He now works as a management thinker, writer and speaker, drawing on his years of experience at the leading edge of performance management thought and practice Steve Morlidge has published several books: ‘Future Ready’ (2010), ‘The Little Book of Beyond Budgeting’ (2017), The Little Book of Operational Forecasting’ (2019), Present Sense’ (2019), ‘Zen and the Art of Organising Work’ (2021) and ‘Cost Matters’ (2023). He is on the editorial board of Foresight, a forecasting practitioner’s journal published by the International Institute of Forecasting to which he regularly contributes. Also, he cofounded CatchBull, a supplier of forecasting performance management software for the Supply Chain community.Steve Morlidge is a visiting fellow at Cranfield University in the UK and a visiting Professor at BPP University, London. He has a PhD from Hull Business School on the application of systems concepts to the design of complex organizations. He has a BA from Durham University and is a qualified management accountant (CIMA).