Randall holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to London Business School he was on the faculty of Northwestern University and Cornell University's S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management. He is on the Leaders as Change Agents (LACA) board, as well as former chair of the Board of Parayhouse School and Trustee of UN Women UK.
Randall has been invited to teach, speak, consult and work with executives, top management teams, and boards in these areas across the world for organisations such as the ICSA (The Governance Institute), Danish Centre for Leadership, and Leaders Sports Performance Summit, as well as companies including ADNOC, Barclays, Chevron/Texaco, Deutsche Bank, Emirates Bank, E.ON, IBM, LEO Pharmaceutical, Lufthansa, Nestlé, Novartis, Paymentsense, PwC, and Uster Technologies. He is also faculty lead for the School’s leadership weeks on the flagship general management programmes, Accelerated Development Programme and Senior Executive Programme.
Randall has also edited a book entitled Leading and Managing People in Dynamic Organizations. His research has been published in leading managerial journals including Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and Strategy + Business, as well as leading academic journals including Academy of Management Annals, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Journal of Applied Psychology.
Randall's current research activities include studies investigating how to lead diverse teams, board effectiveness, how CEO personality affects top management team interaction and well as firm performance, as well as investigating how trust forms in work teams, and the effects of conflict in groups.
In this session we are going to talk about your favourite person - YOU.
Why?
Because the single, most important factor for success as a leader is self-awareness.
Self-awareness refers to the ‘Why’ behind what we do. It is our values, our personality, and how they help drive us. It also helps us understand how other people perceive us as people and as leaders.
Personality is a foundational element of self-awareness. There is no good or bad personality type, but a pattern is often found among CEOs and founders. What differentiates people who have analytical skills from people who can really lead are their interpersonal skills.
In practical terms, being aware of our personality type means we can build on our strengths, improve where we are lacking, or hire a team to cover the areas in which we need support.
Dr Randall Peterson interviews leaders across different industries in his role as Director of the Leadership Institute, has spoken to many of our LifeScience ORG CEOs as well as having conducted research on biotech /medtech CEO personalities.
His research and others (there are at least 100 years of research on Leadership) have shown how personality impacts predicting success as a business leader.
In preparation for the session, we are going to give you the opportunity to take Randall Peterson's Big 5 personality test.