Phil Hodgson
ESMT Visiting Faculty
Phil teaches, consults, coaches, researches and writes in the areas of leadership, organisational change, handling uncertainty, top executive learning and executive team development. He coaches chief executives and top executive teams.
He was Director of Leadership Programmes at Ashridge Business School, UK, where he worked for 21 years. He was co-director of the Ashridge Top Leader Journey Programme and before that the Action Learning for Chief Executives Programme.
Before Ashridge, Phil held management and organisational development roles in the hotel, pharmaceutical and transport industries for nearly 13 years. On leaving university his first work was as a volunteer social worker in the Solomon Islands, West Pacific, and before he settled down he spent some time writing software to design computer chips. His degrees are in psychology and industrial psychology; he is an NLP Master Practitioner.
He has written three books on leadership including the popular: Relax It’s Only Uncertainty (with Randall White), published by FT Prentice Hall, May 2001, as well as another three books on general management subjects plus many articles.
Phil led the Top Leader Journey research project on how people develop once they have reached the highest leadership levels, which was published by Ashridge in 2004. In 2007 he published research into European leadership styles: The Search for a European Leadership Model, Ashridge, April 2007.
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