IMD Annual Report 2021

Faculty and Research 66

Professor of Leadership and Organization Ben Bryant

Research IMD’s CEO interventions continued to build the basis for a book, by Professor Bryant, which will focus on dissonance as an untapped source of learning for CEOs. The book will explore how CEOs reconcile and integrate dissonance from multiple stakeholder perspectives, such as sustainability and ESG, profit, diversity and inclusion, and wellbeing. A number of case studies were also in production in 2021, examining the learning opportunities from recent CEO departures, including organizations such as Wirecard and BaFin, Danone, Rio Tinto, KPMG and Credit Suisse.

“In today’s society of rapid transformation, CEOs and senior executives have to shape and adapt their own leadership. Transformation is no longer a choice and leadership is the enabler. Leaders who think that learning is for others are destined to repeat history, not shape it.” BEN BRYANT PROFESSOR OF LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATION