HR Most Influential Thinkers

2015 Ranking

1	Cary Cooper	50th Anniversary professor of organizational psychology & health	Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
2	Rob Briner	Professor of organisational psychology	School of Management, University of Bath
3	Adrian Furnham	Professor of psychology	University College London
4	Steve Peters	Undergraduate dean of Sheffield Medical School and CEO of Chimp Management
5	Veronica Hope-Hailey	Dean and head of school	University of Bath
6	Herminia Ibarra	Cora Chaired professor of leadership and learning and professor of organisational Behaviour	INSEAD
7	Jeffrey Pfeffer	Thomas D Dee II professor of organizational behavior	Stanford Business School
8	Stephen Bungay	Director	Ashridge Strategic Management Centre
9	Wendy Hirsh	Independent researcher, and principal associate	Institute for Employment Studies
10	Patrick Wright	Thomas C Vandiver Bicentennial Chair	Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
11	Edward Lawler	Director	Center for Effective Organisations and distinguished professor of business, University of Southern California
12	Marcus Buckingham	Author and founder	Marcus Buckingham Company
13	Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge	Founder	Quality & Equality
14	Stephen Bevan	Director	Centre for Workforce Effectiveness, The Work Foundation
15	Andrew Campbell	Director	Ashridge Strategic Management Centre
16	Michael West	Professor of organisational psychology	Lancaster University Management School, and Senior Fellow The King’s Fund
17	Josh Bersin	Principal and founder	Bersin by Deloitte
18	Amy Edmondson	Novartis professor of leadership and management	Harvard Business School
19	Paul Kearns	Chair	The Maturity Institute
20	Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic	Professor of business psychology	University College London and Columbia University
21	Marshall Goldsmith	Adjunct professor of business administration	Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
22	David Collings	Professor of HR management	Dublin City University
23	Adam Grant	Professor of management	Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
24	Shlomo Ben-Hur	Professor of leadership and organizational behavior	IMD
25	Denise Rousseau	University professor and HJ Heinz II professor of organizational behavior and public policy	Carnegie Mellon University and Heinz College and Tepper School of Business
26	Stewart Friedman	Practice professor of management, The Wharton School of Business	University of Pennsylvania
27	Vlatka Hlupic	Professor of business and management	Westminster Business School
28	Sylvia Ann Hewlett	Founder and CEO	Center for Talent Innovation
29	Steven D'Souza	Associate professor	IE Business School
30	Liz Mellon	Executive director and chair of the editorial board of Dialogue	Authentic Leadership and Duke Corporate Education