Pierre Lainey, DBA, MBA, Adm.A., Fellow C.M.C., CRHA is Senior Lecturer in Management at HEC Montréal, where he teaches political skills, organizational leadership, the psychology of decision-making and the psychology and leadership of change. Mr. Lainey has worked for twenty-five years as a manager and organizational development consultant. His mandates have led him to work in public and private organizations in Quebec, Ontario and the United States. A psychologist by training, Mr. Lainey holds an MBA and is a Fellow of the Canadian Association of Management Consultants (C.M.C.). He regularly conducts training courses on the subject of political skills for HEC Montréal's École des dirigeants, and is a frequent speaker on the subject. During his doctoral studies, he became interested in the typology of political games that emerge in large organizations undergoing transformations. His research focuses on strategic behaviors in the exercise of organizational power. He is a certified human resources consultant with the Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines du Québec. He has published seven books on leadership, decision-making and supervision, and was awarded the HEC Montréal prize for excellence in pedagogy in 2008.