Fast-Tracked Podcast Episode 13: Professor Richard Jolly of Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management explores evolving challenges in the legal profession, particularly within law firms, including structural and psychological barriers to change such as the traditional partnership model, short-term profit focus, and resistance to innovation. The conversation touches on generational shifts and the need for law firms to adapt to successfully navigate the future.
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Featured in this Episode
Richard Jolly
Consulting Role
For the past 26 years, Richard has been a Director of the consulting firm Stokes & Jolly Ltd, with offices in the United States and the United Kingdom. He coaches senior leaders, facilitates senior group processes, delivers keynote addresses, runs senior development programs, and works on a diverse set of consulting assignments. His clients are located in a broad range of geographies and industries, and he has consulted with leading companies in 41 countries. His main focus is working with professional and financial services firms, family-owned businesses and family offices, technology firms, and creative industries on external projects around more effective client relationships and internal projects around strategy, leadership, culture, resilience, organizational and technological change, and succession management.
Academic Role
Richard joined the full-time faculty at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern five years ago, where he lectures on leadership, power and politics, and organizational change. He was a core faculty member at the London Business School (LBS) for 22 years, during which time he was consistently one of its highest rated, most innovative and award-winning teachers. He has taught at Columbia Business School for 13 years and over 20 other business schools around the world.
