Professor Randall S Peterson is academic director of the Leadership Institute at London Business School. His current research activities include investigating how CEO personality affects top management team interaction; board dynamics; leading diverse teams; conflict management in teams; and the effects of member personality on group interaction and performance. As professor of organisational behaviour at London Business School, he teaches on the EMBA, MBA, MFA, and executive education on leading teams and organisations, high performance teams, leadership assessment, and interpersonal skill development. He has been invited to teach and consult across the world, for companies such as ADNOC, Alcan, AREVA, Barclays, Chevron/Texaco, Deutsche Bank, Emirates Bank, E.ON, GIB, IBM, Lufthansa, Nestlé, Price Waterhouse Coopers, and Roche.