Topic: Towards A Geography of Leadership

Speaker: Professor Brad Jackson

The University of Auckland Business School

Time: 2:00-3:00pm, June 9, 2010

Location: Room217, New Building of GSM, Peking University.

Welcome to attend!

Overview:

It is an exciting and growthful time for the field of leadership studies as it opens up to new disciplinary perspectives from physics and biology to the fine and performing arts. But what might a geographic perspective add to the understanding and practice of leadership? Drawing on his original training as a geographer, Brad will highlight a number of profitable avenues for research and teaching that might be opened up by a Geography of Leadership. Most notably, the field might finally come to grips with the elusive yet long recognised problem of conceptualising context in leadership processes. In terms of leadership practice, this will serve to highlight the significance of space and place in fostering common identity, purpose and direction.

Speaker’s Biographical Sketch:

Professor Brad Jackson is the Fletcher Building Education Trust Chair in Leadership at The University of Auckland Business School. Prior to joining the University of Auckland Brad was the Director of the Centre for the Study of Leadership and Head of School of the Management School at Victoria University of Wellington. He has been a Visiting Professor with the Copenhagen Business School, Doshisha University and the University of Pretoria and was an Associate Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Calgary. He has taught courses in Change Management, Inter-Cultural Management, Leadership and Ethics, Organisational Behaviour, Organisational Communication, Qualitative Research Methods and Management Learning. Jackson has spoken to academic and business audiences throughout the world and has published five books—Management Gurus and Management Fashions, The Hero Manager, Organisational Behaviour in New Zealand, A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Leadership and Demystifying Business Celebrity. He is co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Leadership and Sage Major Works in Leadership and is a board member of the International Leadership Association.