Craig Preston

Craig is the CEO of Ducis Advisors. Following a career where he has been both a leader, and a developer of leaders across the globe, Craig and the Ducis Advisors team look to develop and enhance leadership capability in organisations at all levels.

Craig was a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and spent 18 years as a British Army Officer. He served in many countries across the world and spent five years on operations in Northern Ireland, where he was mentioned in Despatches in 1989. He served with the NATO forces in Bosnia in 1996.

Having left the Army, Craig worked as a leader with Coca-Cola Enterprises, running both a sales operation and large distribution centres. His commercial experience also included seven years with Aon as both a risk consultant, where he advised clients on crisis management worldwide, and as the leader of one of Aon’s largest UK retail businesses. He worked as a leadership consultant and coach, with clients ranging across the military, commercial and elite sporting worlds. He has developed leaders globally, running programmes across the Middle East including the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

Craig has worked as a senior leadership coach for the past few years, working with CEOs and their leadership teams helping them to maximise their leadership and management capability and to develop world class team behaviour, particularly in times of pressure and change.