Moray is a Director at Redstone Consultants where he assists some of the world´s most successful businesses. He has been working with knowledge businesses, and particularly law firms, since 1997 with particular experience across Africa, Europe, India and Latin America. His clients include the leading global and independent firms.
He is a member of the Advisory Board at LawWithoutWalls and an active member of the IBA Law Firm Management Committee, where he leads the law firm strategy group.
Since 2008, Moray has been a member of the MBA faculty at IE Business School, which was ranked by the Financial Times as Europe´s top business school in 2012 and 2013. In 2010 he launched their global program for Corporate Counsel and law firm leaders - the Lawyers´ Management Program (LMP) – which he co-directs.
In 2005, he co-founded Iberian Legal Group the publishing and research network for lawyers across the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world – now ten years old and still growing.
A former lawyer with an MBA in legal services, Moray is also a qualified mediator and accredited business coach. He is a past member of the Circle of Experts for the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Report.
Faculty Member @ The Financial Times and IE Business School has launched the FT | IE Corporate Learning Alliance, a new joint venture providing custom learning for business leaders.
The FT | IE CLA partners with the world’s leading business schools from Europe, Asia, North and Latin America, to design and deliver tailored programmes that meet the learning needs of today’s executives.
Schools partnering for the launch include Yale School of Management (United States), Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil), Antai Business School (Jiatong University, China), Renmin Business School (China), Singapore Management University, and EGADE Business School (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico), among others.
Together they make one of the largest pools of local and international expertise and content. The unique programmes combine face-to-face modules with innovative online and offline learning methods. Programs can be delivered in multiple languages including Arabic, English, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish. From May 2015 to Present (8 months) London, United KingdomMember of the Advisory Board @ From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Miami/Fort Lauderdale AreaChair, Law Firm Strategy Group (Law Firm Management Committee) @ From November 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) London, United KingdomDirector @ Redstone is a consulting business that helps clients to take their organisations forward with confidence.
We work in close partnership with our clients, to ensure that they maximise their potential – as individuals and businesses.
Our clients are built around people and deliver services: professional, financial and advisory. They are national and international, public and independent, competitive and ambitious.
Our team has been created from some of the best client and consulting firms in the world, so is expert in all the skills needed for sustainable success.
Our most vital contributions are in the areas of strategy, organisational design, culture, positioning, business development and relationship management.
We empower people, we don’t impose our ideas. We give clients total confidence in their business, their potential and themselves. From January 2014 to Present (2 years) Team Member @ LawWithoutWalls™ is a collaborative academic model that brings together students, faculty, practitioners, and entrepreneurs from around the country and the world to explore innovation in legal education and practice. LWOW™ is motivated by a desire to help those engaged in the education and practice of law to realize the impact our changing world is having upon our shared legal enterprise and to embrace that change to create a resonant, efficient, and sustainable future.
Students from Fordham Law, Harvard Law, Miami Law, Peking University School of Transnational Law, and IE and Wharton Business Schools, amongst others, are paired up to conduct investigative research on an assigned topic to identify a problem in legal education or practice. develop a Project of Worth that will offer creative solutions to the identified issues. From July 2011 to Present (4 years 6 months) Miami/Fort Lauderdale AreaCo-Program Director, Lawyers' Management Program @ From June 2010 to Present (5 years 7 months) Associate Professor, MBA program @ From March 2008 to Present (7 years 10 months) Senior Consultant @ KermaPartners is an international strategy and management consultancy advising the professional services sector worldwide. From January 2013 to January 2014 (1 year 1 month) Associate Professor, Catolica Global School of Law @ LL.M. - Law in a European and Global Context From July 2010 to January 2013 (2 years 7 months) Director @ The Iberian Legal Group provides knowledge and networking services for the Spanish and Portuguese speaking legal community globally.
The Group hosts over 40 events a years, including training, conferences and a Master Class series, across Europe and Latin America. It's publications include the Iberian Lawyer - the only source of information for lawyers around the world with an interest in Spain and Portugal, and the In-House Club provides a networking opportunity for Company Secretaries, General Counsel and Heads of Legal and Compliance from Iberia's largest 500 business.
A service for young lawyers, Ticket2Law, provides educational and career advice to those progressing through the profession. From February 2005 to January 2013 (8 years) A member of the Circle of Experts for the FT Innovative Lawyers Report and Awards @ From July 2011 to July 2012 (1 year 1 month) London, United KingdomBusiness Manager @ SNR Denton is an international legal practice with clients in more than 60 locations in 43 countries, through offices, associate firms and special alliances across the US, the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Russia and the CIS, Asia Pacific and Africa, making it a top 25 global law firm. From March 2001 to January 2005 (3 years 11 months) London, United KingdomHead of Business Development @ The International Bar Association (IBA), established in 1947, is the world’s leading organisation of international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies.
The IBA influences the development of international law reform and shapes the future of the legal profession throughout the world.
It has a membership of more than 40,000 individual lawyers and 197 bar associations and law societies spanning all continents. It has considerable expertise in providing assistance to the global legal community. From 1997 to 2001 (4 years) Legal Assistant @ IDLO is an intergovernmental organisation, founded in 1983, to assist the development of more highly skilled lawyers and more effective legal systems within the world's emerging economies.
In 2001, the United Nations granted IDLO observer status, leading to the creation of a permanent observer office at UN headquarters in New York.
As the Legal Assistant within their Central and Eastern European (CEE) team, Moray developed legal training needs assesment and educational programs for CEE judges and lawyers as they transitioned from central to market economies. This included supporting the drafting and adoption of corporate law, in areas such as taking collateral, banking and finance and bankruptcy, as part of a major European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) project in the region. From 1995 to 1997 (2 years) Stagiere @ Assisted a member of the European Parliament (MEP). From 1994 to 1995 (1 year)
MBA, Law Firm Management @ Nottingham Law School, Centre for Law Firm Management From 1998 to 2000 Diploma in Dispute Resolution, Law @ The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) From 1998 to 1999 Common Professional Exams and Law Society Finals, Law @ The College of Law of England and Wales From 1992 to 1994 MA, Economics @ University of London From 1989 to 1990 BA, Political Science @ University College of Swansea, University of wales From 1984 to 1988 IE Business School Moray McLaren is skilled in: Leadership Development, Business Development, Business Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Management Consulting, Leadership, Training, Coaching, Management, Strategy, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, International Law, Legal Advice, Corporate Law, Negotiation, Joint Ventures