Nik Kinley is a London-based independent consultant who has specialized in the fields of measurement and behavior change for over twenty years. He has worked with CEOs, factory-floor workers, life-sentence prisoners, government officials, and children. His prior roles include global head of assessment for the BP Group, head of learning for Barclays GRBF, and senior consultant with YSC, the leading European assessment and development consultancy.

He began his career in commercial roles, before spending the next decade working in forensic psychotherapy. Ten years ago, he returned to working with organizations and since then has worked with over half of the top twenty FTSE companies, identifying and developing talent across the globe. He now specializes in consulting with businesses to help them build their talent intelligence and enhance the performance of their people, and consulting with vendors to help them develop talent and learning-related products and services. He holds a master's degree in systemic psychotherapy and a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of London.

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Shlomo Ben-Hur is an organizational psychologist and a professor of leadership and organizational behavior at IMD business school in Lausanne, Switzerland. His areas of focus are the psychological and cultural aspects of leadership and the strategic and operational elements of talent management and corporate learning. In addition to teaching leadership on two of IMD's top programs for senior executives, he creates programs for and consults with a wide variety of organizations across the globe.

Prior to joining IMD, he spent twenty years in the corporate world, most recently as vice president of leadership development and learning for the BP Group based in London and earlier as chief learning officer of DaimlerChrysler Services AG in Berlin. He earned his doctoral degree in psychology from the Humboldt University of Berlin. He holds a master's degree in industrial/organizational psychology and a bachelor's degree in psychology and political science from Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

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