Action Learning Associates International (ALA) was founded in 1980 by George P Boulden, Professor Reg Revans, the founder of the action learning movement and Alan Lawlor, to apply the principles of Action Learning to solve business problems. 

We are an international organisation providing Action Learning based consultancy and training services to a wide variety of organisations. Since our founding in 1980 we have worked with such companies as Motorola, Xerox, ICL, Lucas Industries, ACE Insurance, Jardine Lloyd Thompson, Hoffmann-La Roche, NACCO, Devon County Council, REXAM (formerly the Bowater Group). We support these organisation's management teams by providing tailored interventions to bring about effective change. 

We have worked in over twenty different countries including Japan, Mexico, Thailand, Europe both East and West, Africa and the Americas. 

We have run numerous major productivity and consultancy skills development projects for the main international agencies, WHO, The International Labour Organisation, UNDP and EC-PHARE.

Lead consultants George P Boulden and Alan Smith