BEVERLEY STONE is a Business Psychologist and Managing Director of Group Dynamics International Ltd. She has held senior management positions in a range of companies, including Marks and Spencer PLC and works with the Chief Executive Officers and Boards of leading companies. She is the author of, Confronting Company Politics (Palgrave Macmillan), an Associate Consultant at the London Business School's Career Management Centre coaching MBA's, Sloan's and Executive MBA's and a Visiting Lecturer at London Metropolitan University on leadership and motivation, conflict and organization change, team working and business ethics.