Life for Alex Shacklock, one of our directors, is about to get a whole lot more interesting following his appointment to become a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, an opt-in research community of business professionals.

As a member of the HBR Advisory Council Shacklock will help Harvard Business Review improve the content it publishes as well as help chart the magazine’s future direction.

He said: “The role will involve talking to Harvard researchers to provide feedback to editors, preview new content, and comment on ideas from HBR as well as those from the wider world of management and leadership”.

The Advisory Council is an online community of members who have an interest in a wide range of topics that impact businesses and organizations. Members may be invited to take part in various types of research activity including online surveys, phone surveys and other forms research from time-to-time. To become a member of the Advisory Council, participants need to complete an online survey and agree to strict terms and conditions.

theGroGroup was founded in 2014 by directors Paul Richmond, Kate Hennig and Alex Shacklock. It operates from offices in Nottingham and East Sussex and has a team of over 20 facilitators employed on a fulltime and contract basis.