Henry Neave

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British academic and educator

Henry Neave
Henry Neave (right) with W Edwards Deming
Born	Henry Robert Neave (1942-07-14)July 14, 1942 (age 83)
Alma mater	University of Nottingham (BSc) University of Nottingham (PhD)
Known for	PDSA,total quality management,quality control
Scientific career
Fields	Business administration and theory, economics, statistics

Henry Neave is a British business theorist, management consultant, statistician, and writer. He is one of the leading proponents of the philosophy ofW. Edwards Deming, with whom he was a close friend and colleague.^[1]

Neave received his doctorate fromThe University of Nottingham, and was supervised bySir Clive Granger.^[2] He lectured at his alma mater from 1963 until 1996, and later served as the W. Edwards Deming Professor of Leadership and Management in the Business School ofNottingham Trent University until his retirement at the end of 2004.^[3]

In 1985 Deming requested Neave to assist him at his four-day seminar in London, his first in Britain. Neave would go on to assist Deming at these seminars in each subsequent year until Deming's death in 1993.^[4]

In 1987 Neave founded the British Deming Association,^[5] and three years later his bookThe Deming Dimension was first published, regarded as a clear discussion to the Deming philosophy^[6] and to which Deming himself wrote the foreword. Predating Deming's final work,The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education, it is the first published work to reference Deming's System of Profound Knowledge.

In 2001, Neave received theAmerican Society for Quality's Deming Medal.^[7] This was awarded "For his dedication to a new philosophy and long-term commitment to transformation through teaching and helping organizations apply the Deming principles of management."^[8]

After Neave retired, demand for his training and consulting services continued, due to his ability to explain Deming’s works and enable people to understand how to use this knowledge. To meet this need Neave developed the 12 days to Deming active learning course. Neave made this course completely free and has been used by thousands of students across the world; the materials have created communities of students learning Deming including in Australia, India and Mexico.