Unleadership / De Gruyter Transformative Thinking and Practice of Leadership and Its Development Bd.6 (ePub)

Selen Kars-Ünlüoglu is Associate Professor in Organisation Studies in the Bristol Business School at the University of the West of England. Her research seeks to understand how entrepreneurs, leaders and organisations develop their capabilities for sustainable futures. In researching these issues, she is committed to attending to the everyday lived experience, and as such her work is informed by interpretative phenomenology and practice-based approaches. She shares this work by writing for academic journals and books as well as reaching wider non-academic audiences through blogs. Selen works with organisations of all scales across many sectors delivering leadership development programmes and facilitating organisational interventions, with a specific focus on instilling climates for learning and innovation and identifying practices for effectively engaging and empowering communities to enable sustainable change.

Carol Jarvis is Professor in Knowledge Exchange and Innovation in the Bristol Business School at the University of the West of England, where she plays an active role in the design and delivery of leadership development interventions. An experienced coach and facilitator, her research exploring leadership and entrepreneurship practices and the everyday lived experience of change and innovation, both informs and is informed by her approach to learning and development. Her work seeks to build and deliver sustainable improvements to workplace practices. Prior to her career in academe, Carol ran her own management consultancy practice for 20 years. She continues to work with organisations across different sectors and sizes, with a particular emphasis on the health and care sectors.