Jon is a Business Psychologist and a Chartered Clinical Psychologist of the British Psychological Society. He is a Senior Fellow in Management Practice at Said Business School and a member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. Jon trained and worked as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic in London where he became Chair of the Adult Psychotherapy Department. He was the founding Director of the organisation consulting service Tavistock Consulting in 1993. Since 2000 he has been a Director of Stokes & Jolly Ltd, a firm specialising in leadership consulting.

Jon has over 25 years’ experience advising and coaching leaders in a wide range of companies including energy, I.T. and finance, as well as with professional service firms such as the law, accountancy, private equity, investment banking, advertising and management consulting. Up He also has extensive public sector experience. Jon has contributed to executive education programmes at the business schools of Oxford, Cambridge and Cranfield Universities. He has worked abroad in many countries including Europe, Japan, USA, and the Middle East.

Educational and Professional Affiliations: Senior Research Fellow, Oxford University Said Business School; Member of Associate Faculty, Henley Management College; former Visiting Professor, Strathclyde Business School; Founder Member, Association of Business Psychologists; Founder Member, Association for Professional Executive Coaching & Supervision, where he is an accredited Executive Coach Supervisor. Jon is a former Associate Fellow of the Institute for Government, London.

His publications include ‘The Psychodynamics of Teams’ and ‘Organisational Stress’ in ‘The Unconscious at Work’ (Routledge, 2019), ‘Why Do We Work’ in ‘Talking Cure’ (Duckworths, 1999), ‘Executive & Leadership Coaching’ in the Complete Handbook of Coaching (Sage, 2018) and ‘Using Emotion as Intelligence’ in Ed Schein et al. ‘Organizational Therapy’ (AV Publishing, Boston, 2010), ‘Defences against Anxiety in the Law’ in Social Defences against Anxiety (Karnac, 2015).