Leadership courses

Academic Focus

Professor Raina Brands focuses on the importance of informal relationships in inspiring change and influence and managing stakeholders. She leads on the change-maker network diagnostic.

Experience

Professor Brands is an expert on the informal side of organisational life. She studies how informal networks of friendship, advice and communication help or hinder the change efforts of managers in the workplace, by underpinning collaboration, performance and leadership. Her work is published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Organisation Science, and the Journal of Organisational Behaviour and has been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times and Glamour Magazine.

Academic Focus

Professor Dan Cable teaches Alive at Work, the power of purpose and strengths-based performance.

Recent Clients

Arla Foods, Areva, Danone, Deutsche Bank, McDonald’s, Novant Health, PwC, Rabobank and Twinings.

Experience

Professor Cable has authored two books: Alive at Work and Change to Strange. He was selected for the 2018 Thinkers50 Radar List and The Academy of Management has twice honoured him with “Best article” awards.

Academic Focus

Professor Mohliver is a strategy scholar specialising in quantitative research of business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR). He helps organizations understand why misconduct emerges, and thus help them pre-empt behaviours that harm the organization or its broader stakeholder environment. In a related stream Aharon studies the implications of social polarization for firms wanting to engage in CSR.

Academic Focus

Focuses on the design, analysis and application of quantitative models for managerial decision-making.

Recent Clients

ENDESA, Iberdrola, McKinsey & Company.

Experience

Published in top journals including Management Science, Operations Research and Mathematics of Operations Research.

Academic Focus

Professor Tammy Erickson runs a board member simulation.

Experience

A McKinsey award-winning author, Professor Erickson has been three-times named one of the 50 most influential global management thinkers by Thinkers50. An experienced senior executive, she has served on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 500 companies. Her academic work is based on extensive research on employee values and the changing nature of work.

Academic Focus

Dr David Faro’s research examines consumer and managerial decision-making. He is particularly focused on understanding and improving consumer decisions in medical and financial settings.

Recent Clients

Telenor, Tata, ExxonMobil, Idomoo, Digitai

Experience

Dr Faro's research has been published in top journals in marketing, psychology and management. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Consumer Research. Before joining academia, he worked in the marketing departments of household appliance firms in Turkey and Greece.

Academic Focus

Isabel’s research focuses on the interplay between economic and social factors in market processes and outcomes. She has a special interest in how client relationships allow intermediaries to create and capture economic value. She is also interested in the role of social networks on individual careers.

Experience

Isabel is the current holder of the Adecco Chair at London Business School and has taught the core Strategy course in the Full time MBA for the last five years. She has also taught in several executive programmes, and regularly speaks in practitioner-oriented seminars and conferences. She co-authored a Harvard Business School teaching case on Zopa.com, a financial intermediary in the UK and her articles have appeared in academic journals such as the American Sociological Review and the American Journal of Sociology.

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 organizations. Her books cover the link between business and HR strategy (Living Strategy), the 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

Herminia examines personal identity in a leadership context and brings expertise to help you maximise the benefits of your network.

Recent Clients

Herminia has directed programmes for Deutsche Bank, Unilever, Siemens and Clifford Chance.

Experience

Herminia is ranked eighth by Thinkers 50 in its list of the world’s most influential business gurus. Her most recent book Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader explains how to step up to a bigger leadership role. Her best-selling book, Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career describes how people reinvent their careers. Author of numerous articles in top academic journals, Herminia also writes for business publications and speaks internationally on leadership and talent management.

Academic Focus

Ena explores the role of power in decision-making and relationship-building in the context of leadership. She gives you the insights and tools to use positive psychology to inspire and motivate others, leverage strengths and consolidate a true leadership mindset.

Recent Clients

Ena has led programmes for HSBC, Deutschebank, Prudential, YPO, World Economic Forum, Carlsberg and Arla.

Experience

Ena’s research regularly appears in the world’s leading academic journals and conferences. Her work is also published by the popular press and media, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Slate.com and World Report. Outside of academia, Ena has worked as a consultant with Bain and Company and she is a founder member of Italian web development agency, Velodea Srl.

Academic Focus

Dr Ioannis Ioannou is a strategy scholar whose research focuses on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility. He seeks to understand whether, how, and the extent to which the modern business organisation contributes towards building a sustainable future.

Recent Clients

Ioannis is a member of the Advisory Board of Ethical Corporation and collaborates as the Strategy Expert with KKS Advisors, a leading sustainable business consulting firm. He also consults internationally with companies as well as asset managers on how ESG strategies can be strategically selected, and successfully implemented. He is highly active on social media and a frequent contributor to articles in the popular and managerial press including outlets such as the Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Guardian, BBC, Le Monde, and Forbes. In further recognition of his impactful work, Professor Ioannou has been recognised by various rankings as one of the top social media influencers around the world for issues of sustainability and corporate responsibility.

Experience

Dr Ioannou graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, majoring in Economics and Mathematics and holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University and the Harvard Business School. Dr Ioannou has presented his research at many academic conferences, and universities around the world, and also, he is very often invited to deliver keynote speeches on issues of responsible management and sustainability at numerous high-profile events and conferences globally. Dr Ioannou regularly publishes in top-tier peer-reviewed academic journals including the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Organization Science, The Accounting Review and the Journal of International Business Studies and indeed, his work is widely cited.

Academic Focus

Dr Selin Kesebir’s research interests include co-operation, competition, gender, inequality and cultural transmission. Her research papers cover topics such as gender differences in response to competition with same-gender co-workers, how the growing disconnect from nature is evident in cultural products, and the effects of disclosing personal information on ethically distinct newcomers to a team.

Experience

Dr Kesebir teaches Executive Leadership and Negotiations at London Business School (LBS). Prior to joining LBS, she was a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and was previously editor-in-chief and associate editor of In-Mind Magazine. Dr Kesebir has also reviewed various journals including Basic and Applied Social Psychology, British Journal of Social Psychology, Emotion Review, European Journal of Social Psychology and Merrill Palmer Quarterly. She has an MA in cognitive psychology from Northwestern University and a PhD in social psychology from the University of Virginia.

Academic Focus

Professor Gillian Ku's internationally recognised research and teaching are in the broad area of negotiations and decision making. Her research has focused on influencing and persuading change at both the individual and group level.

Recent Clients

Oman Oil, Roche, Rabobank and eBay.

Experience

Previously a financial analyst for Disney Corporation, Professor Ku is now a corporate trainer for a number of corporations worldwide.

Academic Focus

Preparing candidates for board membership of companies. Sir Andrew Likierman is an expert in performance measurement.

Recent Clients

Non-executive roles at the Bank of England, a technology incubator and health authority. Sir Andrew has chaired a group compiling corporate governance codes for UK central government and advised the UN on corporate governance.

Experience

Sir Andrew started and sold a bookselling business, ran a textile plant in Germany and was an MD of the UK Treasury. He was President of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and Chair of a government study on professional liability.

Academic Focus

Thomas is an expert on the psychological foundations of organisational behaviour. More specifically, his interests include trust and cooperation, judgment and decision making, negotiation and influence, the self, interpersonal processes and stereotyping. Much of Professor Mussweiler’s research focuses on social comparison processes – he examines how comparing with others changes people’s self-image, their motivation and performance.

Experience

Professor Mussweiler has extensive teaching experience at a variety of institutions. In his 20 years of teaching, he has taught decision making, negotiation, organisational behaviour and social psychology to a variety of different audiences. Professor Mussweiler is the recipient of a series of prestigious national and international awards, including the European Young Investigator Award and the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Award, and is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 70 scientific articles in a broad spectrum of the leading journals of his field, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Psychological Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Making.

Academic Focus

Professor O’Connor is an authority on negotiation, conflict management, and collaboration. 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. Her current project centres on women’s career paths to understand how women navigate moments of decision. In particular, she is investigating the roles of fear, courage and serendipity in women’s working lives. O’Connor’s research has been honoured by awards from leading academic organisations, 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

Madan’s research and award-winning teaching focuses on incentives, decision making, negotiating and bargaining and trust and fairness in interpersonal interactions. His research includes: the value of an apology and the role of anchors and power in negotiations.

Recent Clients

Aviva, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, Lloyds and the United Nations Development Programme.

Experience

Madan worked as a management trainee and factory personnel manager at ITC (a subsidiary of British American Tobacco) in Chirala and Calcutta, India. He is now a corporate trainer for a number of international companies.

Academic Focus

Dr Aneeta Rattan’s research interests focus on mindsets and intergroup relations (stereotyping, prejudice, and inequity). In one programme of research, she studies mindsets that promote belonging, commitment, and achievement among minorities and women in the face of stereotypes and implicit bias. In another programme of research, she investigates the mindsets that help individuals, organisations, and societies foster positive interactions among diverse group members (across gender, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation status), even after incidents of explicit bias.

Academic Focus

Niro Sivanthan’s research broadly centres around decision-making, power and status. He is an award-winning teacher of negotiations, decision-making and influence.

Recent Clients

IBM, McDonald’s, Nestlé, Roche, PwC, Sanofi, Vodafone, Mars, Deutsche Bank, A.T. Kearney, Vodafone, Nordea and Sabic.

Experience

His research is regularly presented at leading international conferences, and he serves on editorial boards. He has been published in top international journals covering management and psychology, such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology and Psychological Science. His research has also garnered international press coverage in CNN, Financial Times, Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Sunday Times and Forbes. He has won numerous awards and been named in Poets and Quants' 'Top 40 under 40' list for the top 40 business school professors globally under the age of 40.