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Summary

I am a Professor in Leadership and Business Education in the Organisations and People division in Brunel Business School and my focus is on human-centred leadership. My research interests are focused on hybrid management and compassionate leadership in organisations including universities and the not-for-profit and public sectors.  I hold a BA / Leverhulme grant for a project investigating the role of hybrid managers in universities.  I am always interested to hear from prospective doctoral students whose interests align with my research areas.

In a career of over 20 years, I have been a business studies academic in the areas of marketing and general managment and leadership and I have held a number of central university positions.  Between 2003 and 2019, I worked in academic staff and researcher development, including being the Assistant Director of the Graduate School at King’s College London and heading up the Brunel Educational Excellence Centre at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ until 2019.  Both of these positions plus my national and international work for Vitae (see ) have involved me in strategic leadership and operational management including managing people, projects and resources, which now form my research interests in leadership.  I served as a member of the Executive Committee of the UK Council for Graduate Education as well as the Honorary Secretary between 2017 and 2021.  I am also a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). 

I am currently an external examiner for the University of Lincoln's College of Social Science Research Degrees Board and have served as an external examiner in many other UK universities including UCL.  I am also involved in providing consultancy work for Epigeum - a major developer of online training programmes for the higher education sector owned by Oxford University Press.  I am a qualified and highly experienced executive coach and I coach senior executives in professional services industries as additional consultancy work.

Qualifications

PhD: An assessment of the strategies guiding end-user involvement in consumer durable new product development (awarded 2004)

MA Management Studies

Postgraduate Certificate in Higher and Professional Education

BA (Hons) American and Canadian Studies

Responsibility

I am currently the Director of Executive Education for Brunel Business School.