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Richard Jolly
Adjunct Professor of Organisational Behaviour
BA (Bristol) MBA (London)
Richard Jolly is Adjunct Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. He has created and taught two electives, ‘Inter-Personal Dynamics’ and ‘Paths to Power’, and has taught many OB courses, including the ‘Leadership Skills’, ‘Managing People and Organisations’ and ‘Developing Effective Managers and Organisations’ core modules; the ‘Managing Change’ elective; as well as the ‘Executive Leadership’ module on the EMBA Global with Columbia Business School and on the EMBA Global Asia with Columbia Business School and Hong Kong University.
He is a faculty lead for Government, Healthcare & Third Sector and has been faculty lead for Technology & Media on the LondonCAP. He also co-leads the Global Business Experience in Lima, Peru and the Global Business Assignment in Mexico City.
Richard was voted Best Programme Teacher by students in 2003, runner-up in 2007, won two runner-up awards in 2010 and runner-up in 2011, and won Best Teacher again in 2014. Richard also instructs a large number of Executive Education courses for London Business School in the UK and across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia. He has lectured in 41 countries.
He has co-directed the ‘Professional Services: Strategic Client Relationships’ and ‘Leading Change’ open programmes, and has also taught on the ‘Senior Executive Programme’, ‘Accelerated Development Programme’, ‘The Essentials of Leadership’ and ‘HR Strategy in Transforming Organisations’, as well as a diverse portfolio of company-specific programmes for over 70 leading global firms, including Air Liquide, Areva, Arla, Barclays, British Joint Forces Command, BT, Carlsberg, Clariant, Danone, Deutsche Bank, Ernst & Young, HSBC, IBM, Jardines, Johnson Matthey, KPMG, Kuwait Petroleum, Linklaters, Lloyd’s of London, Lufthansa, Nestle, Nordea, Orascom, Novo Nordisk, Procter & Gamble, PwC, Rabobank, Rio Tinto, Roche, SABIC, Sberbank, Telenor, Vodafone, the World Economic Forum and YPO.
Outside of academia, Richard is a Director of the organisational consulting firm, Stokes & Jolly Consulting Limited, with offices in the UK and the US, where he works with clients representing a wide range of sectors, including central and investment banking, private equity, asset management, law and accountancy firms, management consultancy, pharmaceutical, insurance, property, retail, aviation, advertising, media, music, architecture, consumer goods, telecommunications, information technology, oil & gas, engineering and manufacturing firms.
Richard’s primary consultancy interests focus on designing and delivering executive development workshops, coaching senior managers and facilitating senior management teams, with an emphasis on leadership and change management agendas. He received his MBA with Distinction from London Business School.
- rjolly@london.edu
- +44 (0)20 7000 8919
- Richard Jolly CV
Research Awards
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Best Programme Teacher voted by students in 2003, runner-up in 2007, two runner-up awards in 2010 and runner-up in 2011.
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Best Teacher voted by students in 2014.
- Top team dynamics
- Senior management development and barriers to change.
2019
6 trends to look out for in 2019
Erickson T; Cable D; Birkinshaw J; Savva N; Yueh L; Jolly R
London Business School Review 2019 January
2018
Executive and leadership coaching
Jolly R; Stokes S
in Cox,E, Bachkirova,T & Clutterbuck, D (eds). The Complete Handbook of Coaching (pp. 245-257), 3rd ed London, Sage 2018
2017
Are you at risk of burnout? Here's what to do
Jolly R; Johnston A
London Business School Review 2017 December
Going nowhere fast: executive derailment and how to avoid it
Peterson R S; Jolly R
London Business School Review 2017 March
Courage, care and communication: a toolkit to lead through change
Jolly R
London Business School Review 2016 January
Digital culture or why strategy and culture should eat breakfast together
Wokurka G; Banschbach Y; Houlder D; Jolly R
in Oswald, G. & Kleinemeier M. (Eds.), Shaping the digital enterprise: trends and use cases in digital innovation and transformation, Springer, 2016
What to expect in 2017
Jolly R; Markides C; Mullins J; Pillutla M; Yueh L
London Business School Review 2016 December
2014
Executive and leadership coaching
Jolly R; Stokes S
in Cox,E, Bachkirova,T & Clutterbuck, D (eds). The Complete Handbook of Coaching (pp. 245-257), 2nd ed London, Sage, 2014
Teaching portfolio
Our teaching offering is updated annually. Faculty and programme material are subject to change.
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Masters Degrees core courses
A key part of our Masters programmes curriculum.
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Personal and Leadership Development
Classic time management frameworks advise us to focus on the important rather than the urgent. But these frameworks seem not to be applicable to the 21st century, where technology means that we are constantly bombarded with deadlines. This talk will explain how to focus on important long-term goals but at the same time meet urgent short-term deadlines; how to use email as an effective communication tool without being overwhelmed with it; and how to outsource and automate routine tasks
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Personal and Leadership Development
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Masters Degrees electives
Optional courses providing a deep dive into specialist areas.
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Inter-Personal Dynamics
This elective has been developed based on extensive research with different stakeholders across the school (and is delivered in active partnership with the Career Centre) and in the business community to ensure you are equipped to meet the inter-personal challenges that become increasingly important and demanding as you get more senior. PROGRAMMES WITH THIS ELECTIVE
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Path to Power
Power, status, and influence are topics that make many people a little uncomfortable. However, they are a fundamental reality in much (maybe all) of organizational and social life. Power and influence are the key mechanisms by which things get done. PROGRAMMES WITH THIS ELECTIVE
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Inter-Personal Dynamics
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Executive Education
Short programmes offering academic excellence, global focus and exceptional diversity of perspective.
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Accelerated Development Programme
"Attending the Accelerated Development Programme is a unique opportunity for participants to learn not only from our world-class faculty but from their fellow participants. Consequently, the way the programme is designed encourages you to get to know as many people as possible and to form a life-long network of culturally diverse peers". -
Essentials of Leadership
"You get appointed as a manager but you never get appointed as a leader"
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Accelerated Development Programme