Irene Roele works independently as a lecturer and consultant in strategic management and marketing. She supports managers in tackling the complex challenges facing them. Through teaching, facilitation and consultancy, she helps individuals and organisations make constructive links between 'thinking', 'planning' and 'doing' - in other words, between theory and practice and between policy and action. Her expertise is in developing strategic thinking skills: helping individuals or teams to develop a vision of the future, link this to meaningful objectives and translate this vision and objectives into results.

Irene's clients range from international private sector companies (including Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard and Poors Europe and Ernst & Young) to public sector bodies (such as Croydon Social Services) and Business Start-Ups and SMEs on behalf of MAS (DTI's manufacturing advisory service), the Booksellers' Association and the National Trainers Federation (horse-racing). Her custom-made courses range from training seminars for large groups to individual consultancy and mentoring.

Until August 2006, she was programme leader for the MSc in Financial Services Regulation and Compliance Management at London Metropolitan University where she was also subject leader in Strategic Management and lecturer on the Chartered Institute of Marketing post-graduate diploma programme for the Department of Management and Professional Development. She continues to be involved with the University as a visiting lecturer including involvement in the Forward at 50 project - a programme specifically designed for women over 50 embarking on self employment and starting up their own businesses. She is also visiting lecturer on a range of postgraduate programmes at MIRBIS (Moscow International Business School). Irene devised and runs the marketing module for City University's Department for Education and Lifelong Learning which delivers management programmes to a variety of organisations including BMI General Healthcare Group.

Irene has a BA from the European Business School, London and an MA in Marketing from Kingston University. Her research interest is in organizational sense making in the context of bringing products to market. She is a member of the Strategic Planning Society. She is bi-lingual in English and Dutch and speaks German fluently.