Jonathan Gosling

Jonathan Gosling is Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter Business School. He holds an Otto Mønsted Visiting Professorship at Copenhagen Business School (2014), and has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership Development at INSEAD, France, as well as a Visiting Professor at McGill University, Quebec, and at Lund University, Sweden. He conceived and co-founded the One Planet MBA at Exeter, on which he directs a module involving participants from several business schools - Managing Around the World: Roundtables for Practicing Managers. His commitment to workplace-based learning is expressed in CoachingOurselves.com. Professor Gosling has published articles in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Leadership, Management Learning, Organization, Corpoate Governance, Academy of Management Learning and Education, and in many more practice-oriented outlets. His books include 'Nelson's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Commander' (Nicholar Brearly, 2005), 'Key Concepts in Leadership' (Routledge, 2008), 'Foundations in Leadership: articles in celebration of John Adair (Palgrave, 2008), 'Exploring Leadership: individual, organsational and societal perspectives' (Oxford University Press, 2012), 'Leadership: Key concepts' (Sage, 2012) and 'Fictional Leaders: heroes, villains and absent friends' (Palgrave, 2013). Professor Gosling is a Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust, the Leadership Trust Foundation, and the Singapore Civil Service College; on the Advisory Board of the UK Defence Academy, and a co-director of the European Leadership Centre. He has long been interested in unconscious aspects of organsiational and social life, and has directed and been on the staff of many working conferences including Tavsitock Institute of Human Relations 'Leicester conferences'; he has recently adapted these ideas for a 'Community Mashup' in a global health programme; and developed a tool for founding multi-sector collaborations - 'Mindsets for Partnering'. He is lead author on a Gates Foundation report on the managerial aspects of malaria elimination (2014). He is on the scientific council of the Gordon Lawrence Foundation for 'social dreaming'.