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

Consulting Role

For the past 26 years, Richard has been a director of the consulting firm Stokes & Jolly Ltd, with offices in the US and the UK.

His consulting covers five areas:

Coaching senior leaders
Facilitating senior group processes
Delivering keynote addresses
Running senior development programs
Executing consulting projects (such as organizational audit, succession management)

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 family-owned businesses and family offices, professional and financial services firms, technology firms, and creative industries on external projects around more effective client relationships and internal projects around strategy, leadership, culture, resilience, organizational and technological change, and succession management.

Recent assignments include:

Becoming the first non-family director in 99 years of a large G3 US consumer goods family business, advising the two families who own the business on how to continue momentum across the generations.
Helping the leading commercial property firm in London to ensure a smooth transition from the founder to the next generation of leaders, including the selection of the new CEO and the retention and development of the entire senior team.
Working with the leading UK wealth management firm to develop its Exco team members, clarify the behaviors needed to drive success in the next phase of its growth and help the next level of leaders develop these capabilities.
Helping a private equity firm develop the capabilities of its emerging leaders at origination and board membership.
Coaching three contiguous global heads of a magic circle law firm over 15 years, facilitating Exco meetings and delivering leadership and client relationship programs for partners.
Designing and delivering a global client relationship program to help the most senior client leaders at a big four professional services firm build trusted advisor relationships.
Working with a US law firm to engage and educate the partners around generative AI and help formulate both an AI strategy and an AI plan.
Being the trusted advisor to a large insure-tech firm, advising the CEO on strategy, structure and culture and facilitating the senior team.
Running an annual ‘Mini-MBA’ program for a global advertising agency to help its senior managers develop greater commercial awareness to build more strategic, embedded client relationships.
Working with the Exco of one of the largest global asset management firms to build more collaboration across boundaries within the firm.
Facilitating the Exco of a big four accounting firm to explore the future of professional services and how they should evolve their business.
Running programs internationally for a global insurance firm to develop personal and organizational resilience amongst its executives at a time of major industry change.

Academic Role

Richard joined the full-time faculty at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University 5 years ago, where he lectures on leadership, power and politics, and organizational change. He was a core faculty member at the London Business School (LBS) for 22 years during which time he was consistently one of its highest rated, most innovative and award-winning teachers. He has taught for Columbia Business School for 13 years and over 20 other business schools around the world.

Across his time in academia, he has taught core organizational behavior and leadership courses, electives on organizational change, power and politics, and inter-personal dynamics as well as on flagship Executive Education open programs and custom programs for more than 95 Kellogg and 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 UK, France, Peru and Mexico; 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