Geoffrey Ahern is an organisational consultant who specialises in the implementation of environmental sustainability.
His environmental sustainability projects include research published in 2009 as ‘Thriving with Less. Implementing Environmental Sustainability in 10 Multinationals’ . He is a fellow of the Centre for Leadership Studies, Exeter University Business School , has worked for fifteen years as an executive coach (accredited through APECS and BACP), has a background as a sociologist of religion, and graduated from Oxford University.
In 2009 Dr. Ahern published a second edition Sun at Midnight: The Rudolf Steiner Movement and Gnosis in the West, 2nd edition of his first book, Sun at Midnight: the Rudolf Steiner Movement and Gnosis in the West , which is based on fieldwork undertaken for his PhD at the London School of Economics. This comprehensive text on Rudolf Steiner and the movement he founded (Anthroposophy) has become a classic foundational work on the topic.
Geoffrey Ahern is married to the artist Ivon Oates.
Ahern, Geoffrey (June 2009) ‘Thriving with Less. Implementing Environmental Sustainability in 10 Multinationals’ in Corporate Finance Review, June 2009.
Ahern, Geoffrey (May 2009) Sun at Midnight. The Rudolf Steiner Movement and Gnosis in the West, 2nd ed., Cambridge: James Clarke & Co. (Excerpts, index, Table of Contents, and selected resources from the book may be found here.)
Ahern, Geoffrey (2007) ‘In Praise of a Balanced Professionalism in Coaching’ in Leadership Matters (Leadership South-West), Issue 12.
Ahern, Geoffrey (2005), ‘Coaching Professionalism and Provider Size’ in Journal of Management Development (Cranfield School of Management), Vol 24, Issue 1, Feb.
Ahern, Geoffrey (2004), ‘The Case for Multi-Provider Collective Evaluation: Moving Beyond Current Coaching Evaluation’ in International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching, Dec.
Ahern, Geoffrey (2003), ‘Designing and Implementing Coaching/Mentoring Competencies: a Case Study’ in Counselling Psychology Quarterly, Vol 16, No 4, Dec.
Ahern, Geoffrey (2001), ‘Individual Executive Development: Regulated, Structured and Ethical’ in The Occupational Psychologist, No 44, Dec.
Ahern, Geoffrey (1988), 'Technological utopianism and our Zoroastrian heritage', Faith and Freedom, Vol 41, Part 1, Spring.
Ahern, Geoffrey (1987), ‘”I do believe in Christmas”. White working people and Anglican clergy in inner-city London’, half of Inner City God (with Prof. Grace Davie). London: Hodder & Stoughton.
Ahern, Geoffrey (1985), 'The Triune God in Hackney and Enfield: 30 Trinitarian Christians and secularisation', Religion Today, October.
Ahern, Geoffrey (1985), 'Concerned Philosophy' [extended review of The Imperative of Responsibility: in Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age, Hans Jonas], The Salisbury Review, Vol 3, No 3, April.
Ahern, Geoffrey (1984), ‘Golden Temple's War on the Golden Calf’, Guardian, 25 June, ‘Agenda’
Ahern, Geoffrey (1984), ‘Reagan and the Religious Right’, Daily Telegraph, 12 May, leader page.
Ahern, Geoffrey (1984), ‘Sun at Midnight: The Rudolf Steiner Movement and the Western Esoteric Tradition’, Aquarian Press, ISBN 0-85030-338-9
Ahern, Geoffrey (1983), ‘A History of Mystery’, Times Higher Education Supplement, 11th Feb, p. 11.
Ahern, Geoffrey (1982), ‘Five Karmas, or Anthroposophy in Great Britain’, in Dialog Center's Update nr. VI 4 (Dec. 1982), 15 December.
Ahern, Geoffrey (1982), ‘Double profanity, or towards the explicit: 18 Anthroposophists and a researcher’, Religion, 12.