Randall S. Peterson

Dr. Randall S. Peterson is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Founding Director of the London Business School Leadership Institute. His award-winning research activities include studies of board dynamics, leading diverse teams, how CEO personality affects top management teams and firm performance, as well as investigating how trust forms in work teams, and the effects of conflict in boards and teams. He has been recognised with the McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups and Teams. His most recent book is entitled Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand. His previous book was Leading and Managing People in the Dynamic Organisation. He has published more than 50 articles in leading managerial journals including Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review, as well as in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal and Administrative Science Quarterly.

Randall is an outstanding mentor, having won the Academy of Management's 'Best Mentor' award and teacher as a winner of London Business School's 'Excellence in Teaching' award. He has been invited to teach and consult across the world, for organisations such as ADNOC, AON, Barclays, Booking Holdings, Bridgestone, Chevron/Texaco, Deutsche Bank, Emirates Bank, E.ON, European Women on Boards (EWOB), Fairtrade Africa, Gulf International Bank (GIB), IBM, Lufthansa, Nestlé, PIF, PWC, and Saudi National Bank.

Before coming to London Business School, he was on the faculty of Northwestern University and Cornell University's S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management. He has been a trustee of several organisations including UN Women UK, and Leaders as Change Agents (LACA), as well as Chair of Parayhouse School for nine years.