Building Resilience & Agility: Revitalise your Organisation 

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 was ranked 46th in the 2017 Thinkers50 list of the top global management thinkers. Consultant and executive educator with companies all over the world. He 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.

Academic Focus

Kathleen’s current research examines professional women’s critical decisions. She translates those findings into practical tips that women can use to boost their influence and effectiveness. Kathleen also advises firms on how to pull down the barriers that stop women from realising their ambitions.

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. That work also has been honoured by awards from leading professional organisations, including the Academy of Management and the International Association for Conflict Management.

Academic Focus

An expert in leadership and strategy execution, David integrates theory and practice based on his experience in business management and as a consultant, alongside his ongoing research into adaptive leadership – which focuses on the ability of teams and organisations to thrive through uncertain and complex situations.

Recent Clients

Generali, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Ipsen Biotech, Gulf Business Machines, SAP, Pertrofac, Dubai Airports, Nestle.

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, he 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 he has successfully grown and sold ventures in business consulting and software. David is also known for designing and facilitating executive programmes that are experiential, memorable and impactful.

In 2019, David co-authored, “What Philosophy Can Teach You About Being a Better Leader”. The book is an account of how we can reconnect companies, 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.

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.

Experience

Tom Ryan is an experienced management educator and consultant who has had a long relationship with London Business School since completing his MBA here. That relationship initially included teaching on degree and executive education programmes. He later led the school’s custom executive education business in which capacity he worked with a broad spectrum of school faculty and other contributors to create programmes that provided solutions to the needs of our clients and staff. He has also contributed to the development of a number of learning simulations. He has advised a number of business schools on their own strategy and has published several papers on the topic.

As a consultant, his focus is on working with senior leadership teams in knowledge-based organisations to improve strategic and financial performance through clear market positioning and the development of necessary resources and capabilities. A key component of his approach is holding up a mirror to client organisations to provide an objective view of their reality.

Tom’s early career was as a chartered accountant, spending five years in audit with PwC and EY, before holding financial management positions in the entertainment, computer manufacturing and advertising industries. After his MBA he worked as a management consultant with AT Kearney in New York.