Dr. Basil Springer
MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
Dr. Basil G. F. Springer is a Barbadian who trained as a mathematician, statistician, operations research scientist and biometrician in Jamaica, Wales and London, England. He obtained his PhD at Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London and interned as a Biometrician at Rothamsted Research Station located at Harpenden in Hertfordshire, England.
He was a Management Consulting pioneer with Systems Caribbean Limited, which was based in Barbados and the largest indigenous business development consulting firm in the Caribbean. Over the period: 1977 to 2000, he specialized in Project Management primarily in the areas of Agricultural Development and Tourism Linkages to other sectors in Caribbean economies.
Dr. Springer, as a Consultant with the Caribbean Development Bank (1998-2001) established and led the charge, as a change-engine consultant to promote The Shepherding Model™, as a necessary and sufficient strategy for sustainable economic development in any given emerging nation.
Dr Springer has been lead facilitator at many Strategic Visioning Retreats, in the public and private sectors, and was lead consultant in developing policies, business and ACTION plans for the agricultural (banana, sugar cane, cotton, vegetable, agri-business) sector, conflict management, education, enterprise development, film, financial services, health, ICT, media, recreation, renewable energy and sports sectors.
He is a founder member of the Board of the Barbados Entrepreneurship Foundation Inc., and the Smart Partnership Business Link for the Commonwealth and beyond (1995), Commonwealth Partnership for Technology Management Ltd. (CPTM), based in London, UK; also, he was a founding director of The Caribbean Institute of Certified Management Consultants (CICMC).
Dr. Springer was Chairman, Barbados Agricultural Marketing Corporation (1981-1984); Chairman, Barbados National Productivity Council (1996-2001); and Deputy Chairman, Barbados National Bank (now Republic Bank) (1994-2003) as well as a member of other public and private sector boards.
Dr. Springer is a Director of the New Jersey based Caribbean Media Exchange on Sustainable Tourism (CMEx), which has hosted many international events as well as Marketplace Excellence (MPE) - a Public Relations, Marketing and Media Company. He is the Chairman of Global Business Innovation Corporation (New Jersey), which launched the Caribbean Food Business Innovation Revolution initiative in Trinidad in January 2015.