Jon Stokes

Jon is a business and organisational psychologist with over 20 years experience consulting to a wide range of commercial and public sector organisations. He trained and worked at the Tavistock Centre where he was the Founding Director of the Tavistock Consultancy Service – prior to this he was Chairman of the Adult Department of the Tavistock Clinic and Head of Career and Educational Consultation.

A Chartered Clinical Psychologist and a Full Member of the British Confederation of Psychotherapists, Jon has a broad range of industry experience including Professional Service Firms, Investment Banking, FMCG, Manufacturing, Advertising Agencies and Management Consulting. In the public sector he has consulted in the Health, Social, Police and Prison Services. He has worked in the USA, Africa, Israel and Europe.

Jon is a Senior Fellow in Management Practice at Oxford University Said Business School, visiting Professor at Strathclyde University Graduate Business School, a Member of Associate Faculty at Henley Management College, Founder Member of the Association of Business Psychologists, and Founder Member of the Association for Professional Executive Coaching & Supervision, where he is an accredited Executive Coach Supervisor.  Jon is also an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Government.

He has contributed to executive education programmes at many business schools, including Oxford, Cambridge and Cranfield Universities. His publications include chapters on ‘The Psychodynamics of Teams’ and ‘Organisational Stress’ in ‘The Unconscious at Work’ (Routledge, 1994) and ‘Why Do We Work’ in ‘Talking Cure’ (Duckworths, 1999) the book accompanying a BBC series. His consultancy interests focus on leadership development, leadership transitions and developing emotional intelligence.

In addition to Leadership Coaching, his consulting work includes advising chief executives and senior management teams on inter-personal, group and organisational dynamics; designing and providing for the in-depth assessment, selection and development of senior executives; and the training and development of managers and management consultants.

E-Mail: js@stokesjolly.com

Richard Jolly

For the past 21 years, Richard has been a Director of the consulting firm, Stokes & Jolly Ltd, with offices in the UK and, recently, the US.

He coaches senior leaders; facilitates senior group processes; delivers keynote addresses; runs senior development programs; and works on a diverse set of consulting assignments.

His clients are located in a broad range of geographies and industries, and he has consulted with leading companies in 41 countries. His main focus is working with professional services firms, creative industries, banks and private equity firms on external projects around more effective client relationships and internal projects around strategy, leadership, resilience, organizational change and succession management.

As well as having recently joined the faculty at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern, Richard has been a core faculty member at the London Business School (LBS) for the past 20 years during which time he has consistently been one of its highest rated, most innovative and award-winning teachers. He has taught at Columbia Business School for 13 years and over 20 other business schools around the world.

He has taught core organizational behavior and leadership courses, electives on organizational change, power and politics, and inter-personal dynamics as well as on all the flagship Executive Education open programs and custom programs for more than 75 LBS global clients in the UK and across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, focusing on leadership, organizational change, culture, power and politics, team dynamics and building resilience.

Richard has also been identified as one of the most entrepreneurial course creators having created two, highly successful electives (‘Paths to Power’ and ‘Inter-Personal Dynamics’); student field trips to Lima, Peru and Mexico City; and the London Core Application Practicum consulting program for technology, media and telecoms, and government, healthcare and the third sector. He has also designed, launched and co-directed two Executive Education open programs, ‘Professional Services: Strategic Client Relationships’ and ‘Leading Change’.

E-Mail: rj@stokesjolly.com