Leadership Institute

Experience

Vyla has worked as a strategic organisational effectiveness consultant in Europe for over 30 years. She has international experience of working as an advisor to emerging, senior, and C-Suite leaders in global, regional, and country based organisations. Topics Vyla has advised on include: board effectiveness, strategy execution, behavioural based change, and leadership effectiveness and development.

She also has experience as Programme Director, Executive Coach, Learning Facilitator, and Tutor in Executive Education programmes, at institutions such as London Business School, INSEAD, and Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. She holds a BA in Industrial/ Organisational Psychology, a M.Phil. in Organisational Behaviour and a Certificate in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Vyla is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine.

Academic Focus

Professor Randall S Peterson teaches team and organisational leadership and interpersonal relationships.

Recent Clients

Alcan, Barclays, Braxton, Chevron/Texaco, IBM, Nestlé and Roche.

Experience

Author of Leading and Managing People in Dynamic Organisations. Widely published in Research in Organisational Behavior, and The Journal of Applied Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Experience

Professor Nader Tavassoli joined us from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2002, where he was faculty director of the Entrepreneurship Programme and founding faculty director of the e-Business Programme. His research, teaching and advising is on brands and branding. He launched Coursera’s first massive open online course (MOOC) on brand management; helped define brands' purpose, DNA and strategy; served as an expert witness in brand disputes, representing celebrities, multi-nationals, and countries; advised in M&A brand due diligence and integration; and designed and directed brand academies for several global companies.

Experience

Simon Osborne is recognised as one of the leading UK authorities on Corporate Governance and Board Effectiveness, as well as a sought after conference speaker, and board evaluator.

Simon became chief executive of Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA: The Governance Institute) in October 2011 and stepped down in May 2018. He progressed to this role after being made a Fellow of ICSA in 2004, and following on from his appointments as chair of the ICSA Company Secretaries’ Forum in 2005, and Joint Head of ICSA Board Evaluation in 2003.

During his tenure, he led a significant change programme, focusing on three key pillars: representing and engaging with members, including reviving the branch network; extending the range of ICSA’s qualifications and training across many sectors; and raising its profile to reflect the increasing global importance of good governance.

After qualifying as a solicitor, Simon started his corporate career working as in-house counsel for nearly 30 years in the railway industry, latterly as company secretary and general counsel of the former Railtrack Group PLC. Following the UK Government’s move against Railtrack Group’s major subsidiary by putting it into railway administration, he joined a small team, which successfully recovered value for 250,000 shareholders.

A recognised advocate of using evidence based insights to inform governance and board efficacy, across a range of industries and sectors, Simon has pursued a policy of low cost targeted investment in research projects with organisations including the Investment Association and Board Intelligence.

Outside of ICSA, Simon chairs the Bylaws & Procedures Committee of the International Corporate Governance Network. In the past, he was a founder member of ICGN’s business ethics committee. He was formerly a NED with an award winning media firm, Crown Brands Communications Limited, and its parent MNN Holdings Limited. He is a vice-president of a small charity, the Railway Benefit Fund (Charles Dickens was a founder member), having previously served successively as honorary solicitor, board member and deputy chair, and chairing its nomination committee.

In the early days of the Leadership Institute, Simon worked closely with the Institute team to pilot aspects of a “Board Fellows Programme” for MBAs, which as of the 2018/19 academic year is running as a collaboration between the LBS Leadership Institute, Board Fellow participants, and the London Business School Student Led Initiatives Team.

Experience

Ruth is an experienced event and project manager within the higher and professional education sectors. Ruth has worked for London Business School since 2014. She has extensive experience as a Programme Manager in Executive Education working on both open enrolment and custom programmes, with a range of top-tier clients including the Young Presidents’ Organisation (YPO) and the Global Business Consortium (GBC), as well as multinationals in FMCG, professional services, finance and medical manufacturing. She has also been involved in a number of strategic projects including Executive Education’s 50th Anniversary campaign and the launch of the new London Business School website.

Ruth holds a Bachelor of Law with Honours (LLB) degree from Aberdeen University. She lived in France and Austria for a number of years working in the tourism industry, and speaks German. She is currently learning Spanish.