Faculty

Carter Cast is the author of The Right (and Wrong) Stuff: How Brilliant Careers are Made — and Unmade. He is an award-winning professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, teaching entrepreneurship, leadership and marketing and working on Kellogg’s leadership initiative.

Dorie Clark has been named three times as one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50. She teaches executive education at Columbia Business School, and has written four bestselling books. Clark has been described by the New York Times as an ‘expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.’

Chris Coleridge is Management Practice Associate Professor at Cambridge Judge Business School and CEO of Carbon13, the venture builder for the climate emergency.  Chris was an entrepreneur in the 1990s, became an academic in entrepreneurship and strategy after exiting his business, and recently returned to the ‘practical’ side of entrepreneurship by founding Carbon13.

Nicolas Constantinesco is the co-founder of Promeo, a communications training firm, and is a visiting professor at Rotterdam School of Management. His primary interest is to help business students build strong practical skills that help achieve visible impact in the workplace and result in greater career fulfillment.

Steve Dalton is founder and CEO of Contact2Colleague, the former head of daytime careers at Duke Fuqua School of Business and the author of The 2-Hour Job Search and The Job Closer. Steve writes about careers for the Huffington Post and the Financial Times and teaches at business schools around the world.

Dave Evans studied at Stanford and worked at Apple in product marketing and at Electronic Arts as VP of Talent. He is co-founder of the Stanford Life Design Lab with Bill Burnett and together they wrote the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life.

Professor Herminia Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. She previously served on the INSEAD and Harvard Business School faculties, and is the author of two best-selling books.

Fotini Iconomopoulos is a negotiation consultant and teaches MBA students at York University in Toronto. She is passionate about helping people develop the confidence to take on whatever challenges come their way, and has a particular interest in empowering women and disadvantaged groups. She is the author of Say Less, Get More: Unconventional Negotiation Techniques to Get What You Want.

Professor Connson Locke teaches at the London School of Economics. She has received several teaching awards including the Department of Management Outstanding Teaching Contribution Award and the LSE Excellence in Education Award. She is the author of Making Your Voice Heard: How to Own Your Space, Access Your Inner Power and Become Influential.

Patrick J. McGinnis is the author of The 10% Entrepreneur. He is also a venture capitalist and private equity investor and has built a diverse portfolio of investments outside of his day job. He writes for Fortune, Fast Company, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Boston Magazine and Forbes. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Gorick Ng is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, a career adviser at Harvard (specialising in coaching first-generation, low-income students) and a faculty member at UC Berkeley, where he teaches a course based on his bestseller The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right. He was named by Thinkers50 as one of 30 thinkers to watch in 2022.

Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business where he has taught since 1979. He is the author or co-author of 15 books and more than 150 articles and book chapters, for which he has won numerous awards.

Daniel Porot lectures on career design and job hunting at INSEAD, Columbia, IMD, Kellogg, London Business School, Stanford and Wharton, IESE and dozens of other schools. He has trained more than 77,000 people in 60 countries. He is the author of 22 books (including four US and European bestsellers).

Lauren Rivera is an associate professor at Kellogg School of Management and is the author of Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs. Her research has been featured in the Atlantic, Economist, Financial Times, Fortune, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR. In recognition for her work, Professor Rivera received the American Sociological Association’s William Julius Wilson Early Career Award.

Monique Valcour is a professor of management and executive coach at the United Nations. She focuses on helping companies and individuals craft high-performance, meaningful jobs, careers, workplaces, and lives. She is a regular contributor to HuffPost and Harvard Business Review where she writes about issues such as defining career success, developing employees and job crafting.