Ben is a lapsed electronic engineer, a recovering management consultant and a social psychologist. In addition to being a Visiting Professor in Practice at the LSE, he is also a Visiting Professor with Duke Corporate Education and the Director of the Business Insights Lab at the University of Surrey. He holds a PhD in Organizational Behaviour from Harvard Business School.
Ben teaches PB418 Corporate Communications in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science. He has taught executive courses on leadership, organisational change, decision-making, senior teams & innovation at Harvard and Duke Corporate Education. Organisations he has advised include the BBC, BP, Cisco, Daimler-Benz, E.ON, NATO, McCann-Erickson, Pearson & Unilever.
His book Strategic Decision Making: A discovery-led approach to critical choices in turbulent times was published in 2018.