Ben Bryant is  Professor of Leadership and Organization at IMD.

Prior to coming to IMD, he was a Fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School where he was also Director of the flagship in-company development program for senior executives, the Global Business Consortium.

Professor Bryant is a highly effective teacher, facilitator and speaker. He has presented his most recent research at many of the leading academic institutions and is a regular speaker at management and professional conferences around the world.

Professor Ben Bryant has several areas of interest such as focusing on strategy execution and strategic change and how executives shape and implement strategies in complex organizations. His most recent work focuses on the process of strategy execution as conversations.
Another area of interest is to focus on culture, beliefs and values in large organizations. Ben Bryant is passionate about helping managers to reduce boundaries created by functional silos and national borders. His recent model of innovation culture has been used to guide several organizations to create more innovative climates and to generate new sources of value creation.

Professor Bryant is also interested in facilitating leadership effectiveness. He draws on a range of individual and organizational interventions to challenge leaders in shaping and implementing an organization’s strategy and impacting its culture. His current research focuses on the reflective capabilities and the “mindfulness” of leaders.

Professor Ben Bryant also has extensive experience in the facilitation of senior executive development programs. He has designed, directed and delivered programs in Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia for groups of senior executives from companies such as Oracle, Mars, British Telecom, Emirates Airlines, Standard Chartered Bank, SKF and RWE, Ericsson, GlaxoSmithKline, and Zurich Financial Services. He is also the co-recipient of the innovation in teaching award at London Business School.