Ben Bryant

Program Director

Ben Bryant is a Professor of Leadership and Organization.

Meet your Program Director

Ben Bryant directs the IMD CEO Learning Center. He holds the Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Chair for Responsible Leadership. He currently directs IMD’s Executive MBA leadership stream.

Ben Bryant is passionate about helping managers break down the barriers created by functional silos and national boundaries and manage conflict and tension. His research also focuses on reflection skills, the “mindfulness” of leaders in complex organizations and the ability of leaders to learn from experience and context.

Ben Bryant’s publications

To the Moon and back, the afterlife of a CEO

By Ben Bryant, Sally Bonneywell, Dena Michelli

Landing the top job is hard, but coming back down to earth afterwards can be just as challenging. The CEO role is usually the pinnacle of a career, the corporate equivalent of flying to the Moon or scaling Everest. But as any astronaut or mountain…

An exercise to get your team to open up

By Ben Bryant

When your team members are stressed or hit some roadblocks, the tension starts to be palpable. Sometimes, as a leader, it may not even be clear what has happened to cause the team’s energy to drop. But there are things leaders can do to help chang…

Tools you can use to improve the dialogue on your teams

By Ben Bryant

While it is always important to ensure teams are collaborating well, the strain on individuals this year has been extreme so it is more important than ever to foster dialogue to provide some relief to the stresses that may be undermining your team…

Organizational transformation begins with the leader

By Ben Bryant

It’s no secret that transformation is a critical factor for organizational survival today. But when we hear or think “transformation”, do we think it’s organizations that need to transform, or people? And if we think its people who need to transfo…