Human Resources

Academic Focus

Tammy Erickson is an expert on leadership, the changing workforce, collaboration and innovation, and the nature of work in intelligent organisations. A McKinsey award-winning author, she has been five-times named one of the 50 most influential global management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50.

Experience

Tammy is Founder and CEO of Tammy Erickson Associates, a research-based firm dedicated to helping clients build intelligent organisations. She has served on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 500 corporations, and has experience on Governance, Audit, and Compensation Committees. She holds a BA degree from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, where she was the recipient of the James Thomas Chirurg Fellowship.

Her leading-edge work is consistently showcased in the prestigious Global Drucker Forum, an international conference of prominent business leaders. She has authored five books and numerous widely cited articles.

Academic Focus

Professor Gratton is recognised as one of the world’s leading thinkers on human resources and the future of work. Over the last 20 years she has written extensively about the interface between people and organisations. She was named by The Times/Harvard Business Review ‘Business Thinkers50’ as one of the top 15 business thinkers in the world.

Experience

Lynda has written extensively about the interface between people and organisations. Her most recent book, Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organisation and Make Hybrid work for Everyone, presents a four-step framework to help organisations thrive in today’s more flexible working world, while The New Long Life, published with co-author Andrew Scott, LBS Professor of Economics, delivers a post-pandemic road map exploring the need to invest in productive longevity.

Previous titles cover the link between business and HR strategy (Living Strategy), new ways of working (The Democratic Enterprise), the rise of complex collaboration (Hot Spots and Glow) the impact of a changing world on employment and work (The Shift) and the impact of longevity on society (The 100 Year Life – co-authored with Andrew Scott).

Lynda is a Steward of the World Economic Forum and has chaired the WEF Council on Leadership. She serves as a judge on the Google.org prize, and in November 2017 was named as a council member of Prime Minister Abe’s council on social change.

Academic Focus

Julian’s main area of expertise is in the strategy and management of large multinational corporations, specifically corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, change management and subsidiary headquarters relationships.

Recent Clients

Rio Tinto, ABN Amro, UBS, Tata Group, Exxon.

Experience

Professor Julian Birkinshaw is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Strategic Management Society, and the (US) Academy of Management. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorate degrees by the Stockholm School of Economics (2009) and Copenhagen Business School (2018), and is regularly ranked among the Thinkers50 list of the top global management thinkers.

His main area of expertise is in the strategy and organisation of large corporations, and specifically such issues as innovation, corporate entrepreneurship, strategic agility and headquarters-subsidiary relationships.

Professor Birkinshaw is the author of 15 books, including Fast/Forward, Becoming a Better Boss, Reinventing Management and Giant Steps in Management, and more than 90 articles in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review.

Professor Birkinshaw speaks at business conferences in the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. He is regularly quoted in international media outlets, including CNN, the BBC, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Businessweek and The Times.

Academic Focus

Kathleen O’Connor is an authority on negotiation, conflict management, and collaboration. 

Recent Clients

Danone, Nestle, Air Liquide, KPMG, Deutsche Bank, Prudential, World Economic Forum, Johnson Matthey and Young Presidents’ Organization.

Experience

Kathleen’s corporate consulting aims to help managers make smarter decisions, negotiate better strategic partnerships, build more effective networks, and foster high levels of sustained engagement and outstanding performance. The empirical research that backs her teaching and consulting appears in top-tier academic journals.

She has studied the impact of teams at the bargaining table, how stress influences negotiators’ choice of tactics, and how reputations for toughness undermine negotiators. Her recent research investigates how men’s and women’s facial features—their attractiveness as well as the masculinity/femininity of their facial features—influence how other people treat them.

Kathleen’s research has been honored by awards from leading academic organizations, including the Academy of Management and the International Association for Conflict Management and has been cited in a number of news outlets, including the Financial Times, Associated Press, and the Wall Street Journal.

Academic Focus

David teaches leadership and strategy execution. He integrates theory and practice based on his business experience as a consultancy and his ongoing research into adaptive leadership.

Recent Clients

David’s work as an independent consultant includes: the Prudential, Menzies, Colart, Clariant, Ingersol Rand, Kaspersky, Oxford University Press and ABN AMRO.

Experience

David has 35 years of experience in business, consulting and academia. He is a consultant, researcher, sought-after speaker and author working with business leaders across Europe, the US, the Middle East, Africa, China and India. In 2019, David was cited on the Thinkers 50 Radar of top global management thinkers.

David has held senior positions in academia, as head of department and in business as a managing director. As an entrepreneur David has successfully grown and sold businesses in business consulting and software. David is known for designing and facilitating executive programmes that are experiential, memorable and impactful. David led London Business School’s Flagship Senior Executive Programme for 4 years and Executing Strategy for Results programme for 5 years.

David’s research focuses on the ability of teams and organisations to thrive in the face of new, uncertain and complex situations. The findings and applications are published in the Harvard Business Review article, “The Two Traits of the Best Problem-Solving Teams” (2018).

With fellow authors Jules Goddard, Dominic Houlder and Alison Reynolds, David co-authored, “What Philosophy Can Teach You About Being a Better Leader”. The book is an account of how we can reconnect company, people and shareholder interests. It answers perennial leadership concerns regarding strategy formulation and execution, people engagement, key performance indicators and generational differences through the lens of philosophy, with its focus squarely on how to live and help others live fulfilling lives at work.

Experience

Professor Gallien’s research focuses on pushing the frontier of supply chain management and global health delivery through collaborations with leading firms and organisations. He has published, consulted and taught extensively in the areas of operations and supply chain management, and serves on the editorial boards of leading journals.

Experience

An experienced consultant and industry collaborator, Dr Yang’s main areas of research and teaching are supply chain finance, FinTech, business analytics, value chain management, risk management, and platform economy. His research has appeared in top management and finance academic journals.