Professor Richard Jolly
Richard Jolly is Adjunct Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School.
He teaches the ‘Leadership Skills’ and ‘Developing Effective Managers and Organisations’ core modules and the ‘Managing Change’ and ‘Paths to Power’ electives, as well as the ‘Executive Leadership’ module on the EMBA Global with Columbia Business School. In addition to the MBA teaching, for which he 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.
Areas of Specialisation
He specialises in leadership development, change management, power and politics, building high performance teams, conflict management, motivation, coaching and feedback skills.
Client Organisations
Richard also instructs a large number of Executive Education courses for London Business School in the UK and across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, including the ‘Senior Executive Programme’, ‘Accelerated Development Programme’ and ‘The Essentials of Leadership’, as well as working on a diverse portfolio of company-specific programmes, including Barclays, IBM, Lloyds of London, Lufthansa, Nestle, Orascom, Procter & Gamble, PwC, Rabobank, Rio Tinto, Roche, SABIC, Sony Ericsson and the World Economic Forum.
Career Background
Outside of academia, Richard works as an organisational consultant. He is a Director of a small consulting firm, Stokes & Jolly, and works with clients representing a wide range of sectors, including investment banking, private equity, fund management, law and accountancy firms, management consultancy, advertising, media, music, architecture, consumer goods, telecommunications, information technology and data management companies.
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.
Literature and Achievements
Richard received his MBA with Distinction from London Business School.
He has co-authored the chapter on ‘Executive and Leadership Coaching’ with Jon Stokes in The Complete Handbook of Coaching, published by Sage, 2010.
Richard is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Case Clearing House.
