Des Dearlove & Stuart Crainer
Visiting professors at IE Business School in Madrid, Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer create and champion business ideas. Des and Stuart are the creators of the Thinkers 50, the original global ranking of business thought leaders. Their work in this area led Management Today to describe them as 'market makers par excellence'.
As journalists and commentators, Stuart and Des have been asking difficult questions for over two decades. Now, they help leaders come up with their own wicked questions and explore how best to engage with people and communicate the answers. They were advisers to the 2009 British Government report on employee engagement and are associates of the Management Innovation Lab at London Business School. Their recent clients include the Swarovski Academy, Ruby Wax and Heidrick & Struggles.
Stuart and Des are former columnists to The (London) Times, contributing editors to the American magazine Strategy+Business and editors of the bestselling Financial Times Handbook of Management. Their books include The Management Century, Gravy Training, The Future of Leadership and Generation Entrepreneur. They are available in more than 20 languages.
Stuart is editor of Business Strategy Review. According to Personnel Today he is one of the most influential people in British people management. Des is the author of a bestselling study of the leadership style of Richard Branson.
Des and Stuart have taught MBA students, professors and senior executives on programmes all over the world. These include the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University; Columbia Business School in New York; the Tuck Business School at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire; IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland; and London Business School.