HR Strategy in Transforming Organisations

Academic Focus

Professor Gratton is recognised as one of the world’s leading thinkers on human resources and the future of work. Over the last 20 years she has written extensively about the interface between people and organisations. She was named by The Times/Harvard Business Review ‘Business Thinkers50’ as one of the top 15 business thinkers in the world.

Experience

Lynda has written extensively about the interface between people and organisations. Her most recent book, Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organisation and Make Hybrid work for Everyone, presents a four-step framework to help organisations thrive in today’s more flexible working world, while The New Long Life, published with co-author Andrew Scott, LBS Professor of Economics, delivers a post-pandemic road map exploring the need to invest in productive longevity.

Previous titles cover the link between business and HR strategy (Living Strategy), new ways of working (The Democratic Enterprise), the rise of complex collaboration (Hot Spots and Glow) the impact of a changing world on employment and work (The Shift) and the impact of longevity on society (The 100 Year Life – co-authored with Andrew Scott).

Lynda is a Steward of the World Economic Forum and has chaired the WEF Council on Leadership. She serves as a judge on the Google.org prize, and in November 2017 was named as a council member of Prime Minister Abe’s council on social change.

Academic Focus

Herminia examines personal identity in a leadership context and brings expertise to help you maximise the benefits of your network.

Recent Clients

Herminia has directed programmes for Deutsche Bank, Unilever, Siemens and Clifford Chance.

Experience

Herminia is ranked eighth by Thinkers 50 in its list of the world’s most influential business gurus. Her most recent book Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader explains how to step up to a bigger leadership role. Her best-selling book, Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career describes how people reinvent their careers. Author of numerous articles in top academic journals, Herminia also writes for business publications and speaks internationally on leadership and talent management.

Academic Focus

Professor Isabel Fernandez-Mateo teaches social networks and reciprocity.

Experience

As well as teaching on the MBA and Executive MBA Strategic Management course, Professor Fernandez-Mateo delivers the popular 'Building your Career Strategy' elective. She is associate editor of Management Science.

Academic Focus

Over the last few years, Jules has worked with Professors Gary Hamel and Julian Birkinshaw to establish and promote The Management Lab (MLab) at London Business School, dedicated to partnering with chosen clients in the experimental pursuit of radically different ways of managing talent and organising work.

Experience

In the 60s, after Wharton, Jules Goddard worked in advertising for David Ogilvy in New York, as a copywriter and an account director.

In the 70s, he was the first doctoral student at London Business School (his thesis was on the mathematical modelling of brand choice behaviour) and then emigrated to France to set up a construction company in the Dordogne restoring houses and chateaux, and employing 55 craftsmen.

In the 80s, he taught MBA and PhD students at London Business School, edited the London Business School Quarterly, worked part-time for J Walter Thompson as a member of their R&D group, edited The International Journal of Advertising, and set up The Planners Collaborative, a strategic consultancy.

In the 90s, Jules specialised in designing, directing and teaching senior-level, enterprise-wide transformational programmes for many companies, including one third of the FTSE 100; his special areas of interest are business creativity, strategic innovation, and leadership skills.

Over the last few years, he has worked with Professors Gary Hamel and Julian Birkinshaw to establish and promote The Management Lab (MLab) at London Business School, dedicated to partnering with chosen clients in the experimental pursuit of radically different ways of managing talent and organising work. 

Author of Uncommon Sense and Common Nonsense (Profile Books, in press); recent publications include articles on futuristic models of management (Sloan Management Review), experimental marketing (Market Leader), the economic crisis (Business Strategy Review), mismanagement and core incompetence (Labnotes), cost strategy (Business Strategy Review), a new definition of accountability (Interconnections), as well as a monograph on employee engagement, social media and management innovation (CSC Leading Edge).

Contributor to The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Psychology (Blackwell), The Complete Guide to Modern Management (Mercury), and Business: The Ultimate Resource (Bloomsbury).

See a full list of articles by Jules Goddard.