Director of the Senior Partners Office
McKinsey & Company.
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Max has a broad range of interests beyond leadership and talent development. He is an award-winning travel-writer. The Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, awarded its 2016 prize for Best Guidebook for his co-authored Trek to Everest. Wanderlust Magazine included in its Best Travel Books of 2019 his The Call of the Mountains, which describes the inspirational power of Scotland's mountainscapes. Max's Ridgeway is a guide to walking Europe's most ancient footpath, from Avebury to Ivinghoe Beacon; and one of his TGO articles describes a route across Switzerland's high passes. His photographs have appeared in the various publications indicated below. Max is an active adventure traveller. With friends, he has climbed all 282 of Scotland's Munros (mountains over 3,000 feet in height); wild-camped 1,000 km across mountains in 2013 (including Switzerland's Alpine Pass Route, Corsica's GR20, and Scotland's Cape Wrath Trail); trekked in six continents; skied Sweden's Arctic Kungsleden; canoed the Thames; etc. He also works with the many parallels between adventure travel and business leadership including team selection and motivation, goal setting and re-setting, progress tracking, emergency action, and more. The Weisshorn from above Gruben
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Recent publications 2020: Guidebook - "The Jurassic Coast Path" (pub: tbc) 2019: Illustrated feature - The Hong Kong and Lantau Trails for TGO magazine 2019: Guidebook - "The Land's End Circuit" (pub: Rucksack Readers) 2017: Selected photographs - Great Hiking Trails of the World (pub:Rizzzoli) 2017: Illustrated feature - Mount Kailash, Tibet in a 7-page feature for TGO magazine 2016: Guidebook - "Trek to Everest" winner of OWPG Prize for Best Guidebook (pub: Rucksack Readers) 2015: Guidebook - "The Ridgeway" (pub: Rucksack Readers) 2015: Selected articles - The Munros for TGO magazine 2014: Illustrated feature - The Alpine Pass Route in a 6-page feature for TGO magazine 2014: Book - "The Call of the Mountains" cited as a Best Travel Book by Wanderlust (pub: Luath Press) Recent hiking Plans 2020/1 South West Coast Path (further segments) Hebridean Way (bike) 2020 Jurassic Coast Path, England South Dorset Ridgeway, England 2019 Lofoten mountains, Norway GR5 Lake Geneva to Modane, Switzerland and France (parts of) Famous and Sacred Mountains (part 1), China 2018 Baltoro Glacier and Gondogoro La, Pakistan 2017 Hong Kong Trail, Lantau Trail, China Tour du Mont Blanc, Fr-It-Sw Annapurna Circuit, Nepal 2016 Mount Kailash kora, Tibet Kyrgyzstan Inca Trail, Peru 2015 Tour of the Matterhorn, Switzerland 2014 Skye Trail, Scotland Ridgeway, England Thames Path (canoe and wild camp), England Mount Toubkal (winter ascent), Morocco Kungsleden (skis), Sweden 2013 Alpine Pass Route, Switzerland Cape Wrath Trail, Scotland GR20, Corsica Torres del Paine "W" and Las Glaciaras, Patagonia Furth Munros, UK and Ireland 2012 (and 2010) (22 National Parks driving and hiking across USA) 2011 Lukla to Everest Base Camp, Nepal. 2007-2013 The Munros (all 282), Scotland Some of his other interests are indicated below. Selected interests
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