Tenured Professor and bestselling author who provides academic direction and leadership to research, executive development and education within the subject area of leadership at Henley Business School.
Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2019.
Advises HM Treasury and attends the United States House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth, which makes legislative recommendations to the United States Congress and Administration concerning wealth and societal inequality.
Established the concept of ‘meeting-free days’ by publishing MIT Sloan Management Review’s most widely-read paper of 2022 titled The Surprising Impact of Meeting-Free Days.
Studied more than 400 UK school leaders over seven years to identify five different leadership styles: Surgeons, Soldiers, Accountants, Philosophers, and Architects. Of these the Architects were the only ones to improve long- term examination results, yet they are the least rewarded, least recognized and most rarely appointed.
Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School who contributes to The Washington Post and Harvard Business Review. Informs government policy and shapes hundreds of organisations around the world including Apple, British Cycling, Eton College, NASA, the New Zealand All Blacks, Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Art and Royal Shakespeare Company.
Too Proud to Lead (author) examines how leaders’ confidence can transform into hubris and trigger not only to their own downfall, but also to the collapse of entire organizations.
“There can be no more pressing leadership challenge than that of shaping future generations. Ben Laker’s contribution to the leadership debate in education is rigorous, insightful and very, very timely.”
Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove, Thinkers50
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