Alexey Ulanovsky

Alexey's teaching focuses on leadership, with his research also looking at leadership, influence and management careers in organisations. He is also a consultant for top managers, and has written over 70 articles and three books, including the bestseller Athletic CEOs: Leadership In Turbulent Times (with Stanislav Shekshnia and Veronika Zagieva). He contributes as an expert to RBK, the Harvard Business Review, Forbes and others, and is an executive coach at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, INSEAD and CEIBS. 

Alexey earned his PhD from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2006 and went on to combine applied organisational projects with teaching at Lomonosov Moscow State University and Moscow’s Higher School of Economics. After leaving academia for management consulting in 2012, he led training and development programmes for managers as Senior Consultant at Linkage Inc. and Curator of the Leadership Pathway 2020 project (Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkey). He later joined the Ward Howell group as Consultant and Project Manager. Together with a popular online platform, he curated and hosted Russia’s first systematic online leadership course Leadership and Influence in Organisations (2020). Alexey was a participant in an INSEAD project Board Chairs’ Practices across Countries (2016-18) and achieved outstanding results in teaching and research to win a competition for young academics and teachers at Lomonosov Moscow State University (2006). He was an Oxford Russia Fund scholar (2008) and was six times chosen by students as the Higher School of Economics’ best teacher (2011-2016). Alexey’s clients include teams and managers from leading Russian and international companies (Sber, Gazprom Neft, Samolet, Sibur and more).