Michel Syrett

Michel Syrett

Michel Syrett has combined a career as a business writer with work as an academic researcher and lecturer. Writing for The Times, The Sunday Times and The South China Morning Post, and working as a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management, The Poon Kam Kai Institute at the University of Hongkong and (currently) The Roffey Park Institute, he has researched and written about topics as varied as business leadership, innovation,ideas creation, new work patterns and people management. He is the author of 20 books or reports on these topics. He was recognised for his groundbreaking journalism and writing on new ways of working in management as part of Working Families 30th Anniversary Celebrations when the achievements of thirty individuals who have significantly changed the landscape over the past 30 years for working families, whether by their actions, their ideas or their example were honoured. http://www.workingfamilies.org.uk/about-us/whos-who/working-families-pioneers-1979-2009

Michel is increasingly focusing on mental health issues, drawing on his personal experiences of bipolar disorder. The author of The Secret Life of Manic Depression, the booklet which accompanied the prize-winning BBC documentary Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive, he is on the steering group of a major research project Improving Satisfaction about Medicines Prescribed for Biplar Disorder, undertaken by The School of Pharmacy at the University of London, and is about start work as an Honorary Fellow at the Spectrum Centre for Mental Health Research at the University of Lancaster.
He is collaborating with the Mental Health and Wellbeing Department, Glasgow University. Michel is a founding trustee, former chair and guarantor of The Bipolar Fellowship and is editor of its journal 'Pendulum'.