Canon Malcolm Grundy was Director of the Foundation for Church Leadership (until March 2009, when he became a Consultant with Live-Wires Associates). He has been variously Team Rector of Huntingdon, Archdeacon of Craven (Bradford), Director of Taining (London) and Senior Industrial Missioner (Sheffield). He is a Consultant and trainer with Avec (Director), Edward King Institute for Ministry Development (Founder Editor of the journal Ministry), Chair of MODEM (Managerial and Organizational Disciplines for the Enhancement of Ministry) and Non Executive Director of GJ Palmer (Publishers of the Church Times).

He is the author of Light in the City: Stories of the Church Urband Fund (Canterbury Press, 1990); An Unholy Conspiracy: the Separation of Church and Industry since the Reformation (Canterbury Press, 1992); Evangelisation through the Adult Catechumenate (Grove, 1991; also translated into Swedish as Om Vuxansvag In I Forsamlingen; Verbum, 1992); Community Work: A Handbook for Volunteer Groups and Local Churches (Cassell/Mowbray/Continuum, 1995); The Parchmore Partnership (ed.), Chester House Publications, 1995; Understanding Congregations: A new shape for the local church (Cassell/Mowbray/Continuum, 1998); Management and Ministry (1997) and Managing, Leading, Ministering (March 1999), contributor and editorial adviser (both Canterbury Press); Faith on the Way (Grundy and Ball; Cassell/Mowbray/Continuum, 2000); What they don't teach you at theological college (Canterbury Press, 2003); contributor to Creative Church Leadership (MODEM/Canterbury Press, 2004); What's New in Church Leadership? (Canterbury Press, 2007); contributor to Breaking the Mould of Christendom, a symposium (Epworth Press, 2008); Transforming Conflict (ed.), (FCL, 2008)