The Leadership Council is a thought leadership, research and leadership advisory body based in the UK. Founded in 2008, the Council is chaired by Lord Janvrin and publishes research on leadership

Leadership

Leadership has been described as the “process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task". Other in-depth definitions of leadership have also emerged.-Theories:...

 issues annually.

Members

As of November 2011, The Leadership Council consists of the following 16 members:

• Ed Butler, Former Commander, The British Forces in Afghanistan
• Jonathan Chenevix-Trench, Former Chairman and Chief Executive, Morgan Stanley International
  Morgan Stanley
  Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....
  
  
• Simon Davies
  Simon Davies (lawyer)
  Simon Davies is the current managing partner of the British law firm Linklaters. He was educated at Cambridge University, where he studied Law, and joined Linklaters as a trainee in their London office in 1990....
  
  , Firmwide Managing Partner, Linklaters
  Linklaters
  Linklaters LLP is a global law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom and a member of the 'Magic Circle' of leading UK law firms. Linklaters is the world's fourth largest global law firm by revenue. In 2009/10 it received total revenues of £1.18 billion and profits per equity partner of £1.2...
  
  
• Iain Ferguson, Former CEO, Tate & Lyle
  Tate & Lyle
  Tate & Lyle plc is a British-based multinational agribusiness. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index as of 20 June 2011...
  
  
• Val Gooding
  Val Gooding
  Val Gooding CBE was Chief Executive of Bupa, from 1998 to May 2008. She was awarded the CBE for services to business in 2002. She has been credited various entrepreneur awards since her Executiveship. Fortune magazine calls her one of the most successful women...
  
  , Former CEO, BUPA
  Bupa
  Bupa is a large British healthcare organisation, with bases on three continents and more than ten million customers in over 200 countries. It is a private healthcare company, in direct contrast to the UK's National Health Services, which are tax-funded healthcare systems and do not require private...
  
  
• Anthony Gordon-Lennox, Director, AGL Communications
• Tony Hall, Former Chief Executive, BBC News
  BBC News
  BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
  
  
• Lord Janvrin (Chairman), Deputy Chairman, HSBC (UK)
• The Hon. Mary-Jo Jacobi Jephson, Former Head of Crisis Management, BP America; Former Special Advisor to Presidents Reagan
  Ronald Reagan
  Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
  
   and G. W. Bush
• Lady Judge, Chairman, UK Pension Protection Fund
  Pension Protection Fund
  The Board of the Pension Protection Fund is a Statutory Fund in the United Kingdom. It was created under the Pensions Act 2004. The Board of the PPF is a Statutory Corporation responsible for managing the Fund and for making payments to members....
  
  
• The Earl of March, Head, Goodwood Group
  Goodwood
  - Events :* Goodwood Festival of Speed, a motorsport event in the United Kingdom* Glorious Goodwood, a horseracing event in the United Kingdom* Goodwood Revival, a historical motorsport event in the United Kingdom- Places and structures:in Australia...
  
  
• Martin Newman
  Martin Newman
  Alban Martin James Newman is a UK based writer and adviser on leadership, communications and design. He was described by the Financial Times as the "secret weapon" behind Russia’s winning bid to host the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics....
  
   (Founder), Senior Partner, The Leadership Agency
• David Richards
  David Richards (racing)
  David Pender Richards CBE is the chairman of Prodrive and Aston Martin, and a former team principal of the BAR and Benetton Formula One motor racing teams. He lives with his wife, Karen, in Warwickshire and has three children....
  
  , Chairman, Aston Martin
  Aston Martin
  Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire. The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Hill speed hillclimb near Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire...
  
  
• Sir John Scarlett
  John Scarlett
  Sir John McLeod Scarlett, KCMG, OBE was Director General of the British Secret Intelligence Service from 2004 to 2009...
  
  , Former Chief, British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
• Sir Tom Shebbeare
  Tom Shebbeare
  Sir Tom Shebbeare, KCVO, is Director of Charities to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.Shebbeare was educated at Malvern College and the University of Exeter, of which he was made an honorary LLD in 2005....
  
  , Former Director, The Prince’s Charities
• Lord Watson
  Alan Watson, Baron Watson of Richmond
  Alan John Watson, Baron Watson of Richmond, CBE is a broadcaster, politician and advertising executive.-Early life:Lord Watson of Richmond is the son of the Rev. John William Watson and Edna Mary Peters. He was educated at the Diocesan College, Cape Town in South Africa and Kingswood School in Bath...
  
  , broadcaster, politician and advertising executive

Research Publications

The Leadership Council's research is widely cited, and is normally based on interviews with a cross-section of global leaders. The most recent publication, 'Hoping to Rise or Fearing to Fall', included interviews with Lord Browne

Lord Browne

Lord Browne or Lord Brown may refer to*John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley , former BP executive*Nicholas Browne-Wilkinson, Baron Browne-Wilkinson, , jurist*Wallace Browne, Baron Browne of Belmont, Ulster Unionist politician...

, Seb Coe, Sir Geoff Hurst, Lord Mandelson, and Sir Stuart Rose.

Power, Perspective, Personality

• Publication Date: July 2008
• Research Topic: The strategy for business leaders in political engagement

Not Shaken, But Stirred

• Publication Date: November 2008
• Research Topic: The ten commandments for leaders in times of crisis

Seven Types of Confidence

• Publication Date: July 2009
• Research Topic: The importance of confidence for leadership

Quick Quick Slow

• Publication Date: July 2010
• Research Topic: The balance of short and long term perspectives

Hoping to Rise or Fearing to Fall?

• Publication Date: July 2011
• Research Topic: Investigating what motivates leaders