Lisa Duke

Dr. Lisa Simone Duke is a guest lecturer and Programme Director at London Business School teaching both Degree and Executive Education. She is a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, advising on research areas of interest. Lisa has been working with the London Business School for nearly 30 years and is a 4x award-winning case writer and an award-winning programme designer both for executive education programmes and masters degrees.

Lisa’s research is at the intersection of organisational behaviour and strategy – including problem solving, mobilising teams to execute strategy and deliver results, sensemaking for creativity and value creation as well as leadership topics including leadership experimentation as a practical way to embed new behaviours and remain curious. Her particular interest is behaviour change post-programme. Lisa has co-authored more than 180 teaching cases with faculty from across the world including London Business School, INSEAD and IMD. Notably, she has won the Best Case in the EFMD CSR category for “Forever Chocolate” about cocoa sustainability, while “Does Sustainability Pay? Barry Callebaut’s Sustainable Improvement Loan” is both a bestselling case and won Best Case in the Economics, Politics and Business Environment category at the Case Centre.

Her doctorate from SDA Bocconi (Italy) explored how individual executives can innovate and create value from data, drawing on the sensemaking and creativity/innovation literatures. She has an MBA from London Business School, an MSc Honours in Organizational Psychology from Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Professional Certificate in Coaching from Henley Business School. She has coached hundreds of executives across a wide range of industries to meet their development and career goals.

Email: lduke@london.edu