Next-Level Leadership

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

Prior to joining academia, Ena worked for Bain and Company in the US and in Italy, and for an Internet start-up in Italy. These experiences stimulated her interest in pursuing the science of human effectiveness in organisational life. 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.

Academic Focus

Professor Cable’s areas of interest include: employee engagement, leading change, organisational culture and its effects on competitive advantage, leadership development and the link between brands and employee behaviours.

Recent Clients

Professor Cable’s clients include Carlsberg, Coca Cola, Deloitte, EY, HSBC, Ikea, McDonalds, MS Amlin, NBC Universal, Porsche Consulting, Prudential, PwC, Rabobank, Roche, Sanofi, Siemens, and Twitter.

Experience

Professor Cable was selected for the 2018 Thinkers50 Radar List. The Academy of Management has twice honoured him with “Best article” awards, and The Academy of Management Perspectives ranked Professor Cable in the “Top 25 most influential management scholars.”

Professor Cable’s most recent published work includes Exceptional and Alive at Work, and his first book was Change to Strange. He has published two edited books and more than 50 articles in top scientific journals. His most recent research was published in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, and Administrative Science Quarterly. His research has also been featured in the Economist, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, New York Times, and Business Week.

Experience

Mark’s work in organisational behavior and entrepreneurship demonstrates how motivational language impacts key outcomes. To measure motivations, he builds linguistic measurement tools suitable for extracting variables from conversations, correspondence, webpages, legal documents, blogs, and other archives.

Mark measures psychological and motivational variables via a field observational study or archival reference. He then proceeds onto pre-registered experiments and replications to pin down causality and identify potential mediators. This work has transcended academic publication to practical use. Thousands of entrepreneurs and many investors and managers have heeded and applied these findings to the pursuit of their organisational goals.

Mark’s work has been published in Organisational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Social Science Research, Academy of Management Journal, Science Advances, and Harvard Business Review

Experience

A member of the prestigious Thinkers50 Radar of global management thinkers, author and TedX speaker, Amy specialises in the topics of leading change, compassion, engagement and burnout at work. She works with leaders to build trust and engagement and to generate positive momentum and motivation in their teams in times of transition and change.

Her research has been published in outlets including the BBC, Harvard Business Review, Management Today, HR Director and Forbes. Her first book, The Human Moment (2019), was longlisted for CMI's Management Book of the year. In it, she argues that leaders and organizations must find ways of becoming more compassionate in an age where our work is increasingly de-humanized. Her second book, Running on Empty (2022), co-authored with Dr Katherine Semler, Senior Partner at Korn Ferry, is a story-based exploration of burnout at work, which has become prevalent across all sectors of the working population in the wake of COVID-19.

Over the past 15 years, Amy has designed and run leadership development programmes for global leaders across industries including media; entertainment; technology; professional services; pharmaceutical; finance; NGOs; healthcare and retail. Amy also serves as an executive and team coach.

Experience

Julie Davies is a Professor in UCL’s Global Business School for Health and Director of UCL’s MBA Health. She was previously Deputy CEO of the Chartered Association of Business Schools. Julie has designed and delivered Executive Education in China, East Africa, Kuwait, Russia, and facilitated programmes for business school deans globally.

She is a Trustee of Kirkwood Hospice and until recently an Associate Editor of Human Resource Development Review.

Julie’s research interests include leadership development, EDI, micro-entrepreneurship, qualitative research methods, and business school education.