David Hurst

As a reflective practitioner David Hurst has a unique niche in the field. He has worked as an effective manager and has extracted from his experience some highly innovative ideas about leadership, the management of change and the dynamics of organizations which promote learning.

David Hurst communicates his ideas about leadership, the management of change and the dynamics of organizations to a wide range of audiences in the form of creative presentations, in-depth seminars and articles which have been published in leading business publications such as the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Report on Business Magazine, Strategic Management Journal, Organizational Dynamics, Academy of Management Executive, Business Quarterly, and Organization Science. His book Crisis & Renewal: Meeting the Challenge of Organizational Change was released in September of 1995 by Harvard Business School Press.

For ten years David Hurst was Executive Vice-President of a large distributor of steel and other metals across Canada and the United States. The company generated sales of about $1 billion CDN and employed 1600 people. Here, in addition to his operational line responsibilities, he handled the Group’s Management Development and Management Information Services.

He began his career in retail distribution, but soon became involved in mergers, acquisitions and business turnarounds, particularly in the steel industry. He immigrated to Canada in 1977 and, after two years as a management consultant, joined an industrial distribution company. He was appointed Executive Vice-President in 1982 during a tumultuous period when he, as part of a senior management team, saved the organization from bankruptcy during a severe business recession.

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