Dowshan Humzah

Dowshan Humzah is an independent board director and strategic advisor who has delivered transformative business growth, industry firsts, digital innovation and developed diverse talent, having held senior executive roles with RSA Insurance and Virgin Media, Orange, Procter & Gamble and four digital start-ups.

He has a portfolio of board, advisory and consulting roles. As a non-executive, he focuses on improving performance and quality via enhancing board composition, representation and creative thinking. His directorships include Member of Council, Gresham College; Chair, Overcoming MS and Chair UK Advisory Board, Board Apprentice Global.

Core to his advisory and consulting roles, Dowshan shows organisations how to enhance customer and commercial deliverables by thinking differently to achieve transformative results. This is facilitated by his cognitive diversity and application of creative consulting, where he combines traditional, linear, ‘left-brain’ frameworks with a more creative, oblique, ‘right-brain’ approach thereby expanding possibility, imagination and the resulting solution space.

He continues to be driven by two of his principles from his early life: to ‘be curious, explore and learn new things’; and to ‘succeed, serve and share’. His background and personal journey explain his passion for championing difference and ensuring access to opportunity for for those who are ‘underestimated’, underrepresented and underserved. He is also known for developing diversity of POETS (Perspective, Outlook, Experience, Thought, Sector and Social Background) as a business imperative cutting across and uniting all characteristics, protected or not.

He has Executive Education in Strategy from London Business School and is a graduate of The London School of Economics in Economics: Accounting & Finance. His professional qualifications include being a Chartered Marketer and a Fellow of: The Institute of Directors, The Chartered Institute of Marketing and The Royal Society of Arts.

Travel is a major passion; he is a member of the Travellers’ Century Club (having visited over 100 countries – photographing landscapes and major events). He is a qualified fitness instructor (specialising in Boxercise personal training and kettlebells).

Dowshan is a co-author of ‘Uncertainty Deconstructed’ (published by Springer) and an apt book for our current disruptive times!