Outputs (26)

Academic anomie: Implications of the ‘great resignation’ for leadership in post-COVID higher education (2024)
Journal Article

The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has ignited a near universal rethink of what is tolerable or desirable in work settings. In higher education – where discontent has been exacerbated by the pandemic – the potential for a 'great resignation' is... Read More about Academic anomie: Implications of the ‘great resignation’ for leadership in post-COVID higher education.

Reflections from advances in global leadership's Emerald Literati award winners (2023)
Book Chapter

The book/journal editors of Emerald Publishing are asked to select the Outstanding Author Contribution in each volume, which is a difficult choice. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Emerald Literati Awards were handed out in a ceremony at the Academy... Read More about Reflections from advances in global leadership's Emerald Literati award winners.

Exploring Leadership: Individual, organizational and societal perspectives, 2nd Edition (2023)
Book

What is leadership and why does it matter? Why do people willingly follow some leaders and not others? How can we develop more inclusive and effective leadership? Leadership is one of the most talked about yet least understood concepts in busine... Read More about Exploring Leadership: Individual, organizational and societal perspectives, 2nd Edition.

Pandemi Sonrası Liderlik ve İnsan Kaynakları Yönetimi Stratejileri (2022)
Book Chapter

Addicted to leadership: From crisis to recovery (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter looks at why we default towards toxic types of leadership and compares this behaviour to the drivers behind drug and alcohol addiction. Changing our mental models of leadership, the authors argue, is akin to the process of recovery. They... Read More about Addicted to leadership: From crisis to recovery.

‘Humanity will not be saved by promises’: Using an unleadership lens to restory the ‘blah blah bah’ of leadership at COP26 (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper identifies ways in which leaders, affected nations and activists construct their leadership practices in different ways to address the climate crisis. Whether they advocate for leadership or against it, there remains an opportunity to lear... Read More about ‘Humanity will not be saved by promises’: Using an unleadership lens to restory the ‘blah blah bah’ of leadership at COP26.

Climate for innovation: A critical lever in the leadership of innovation (2022)
Book Chapter

Innovation involves an uncertain journey and, although leadership cannot ensure innovation success, it can certainly influence its odds. In this chapter we will explore the concept of organisational climate, an arena where leadership can have a signi... Read More about Climate for innovation: A critical lever in the leadership of innovation.

Systems change for multiple complex needs: A practical tool (2022)
Report

This tool is intended to be used by anyone who is developing or running a systems change activity or project for people with multiple complex needs. We encourage you to use the tool to identify practical actions in seven key areas which can improve t... Read More about Systems change for multiple complex needs: A practical tool.

Supporting innovation and driving system change through compassionate leadership (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Golden Key is a Bristol-based, eight-year, £10 million system change programme focused on addressing the systemic challenges faced by people experiencing multiple disadvantages. The delivery is partnership-focussed and was reviewed by local and nati... Read More about Supporting innovation and driving system change through compassionate leadership.

Artful ways of building bridges: Using visual metaphors to shine a light on developing the leadership capacity to listen to and bear witness to staff lived experience (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

NHS staff and leaders continue to be under significant pressure to plug the gaps in public service delivery that have been exposed and exacerbated by Covid. With increasing levels of workload comes the kinds of stress and pressure that is damaging em... Read More about Artful ways of building bridges: Using visual metaphors to shine a light on developing the leadership capacity to listen to and bear witness to staff lived experience.

Build back better… with care and compassion (2022)
Digital Artefact

As governments and organisations around the world seek to “build back better” from the Covid-19 pandemic, Richard Bolden stresses the importance of making time and space for recovery — where leaders and others can experience the care and compassion n... Read More about Build back better… with care and compassion.

Leadership for the greater good: Reflections on today’s challenges from around the globe. End of the age of arrogance? (2022)
Digital Artefact

People in positions of power and influence, like Prime Minister Boris Johnson, tennis star Novak Djokovic, and Prince Andrew, seem to believe that they are free to operate above the rules. But the tide of public opinion is turning against these egreg... Read More about Leadership for the greater good: Reflections on today’s challenges from around the globe. End of the age of arrogance?.

No going back! Implications of the pandemic for leadership practice and organisation development in health and care (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This keynote address will outline findings from two recent studies of leadership practice and organisation development (OD) in the UK health and care system during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first study looks at the lived experience of NHS staff and... Read More about No going back! Implications of the pandemic for leadership practice and organisation development in health and care.

Leadership in global higher education: Findings from a scoping study (2022)
Report

This scoping study was commissioned by Advance HE to inform the development of a higher education (HE) leadership survey, with the aim of investigating what works for leadership in higher education and related organisations. The timing of this study... Read More about Leadership in global higher education: Findings from a scoping study.

Evaluating shifting perceptions and configurations of social capital in leadership development (2022)
Journal Article

Whilst Day's (2000) description of leadership development as an investment in social capital has been widely cited, there has been little subsequent empirical or theoretical work to explore and articulate the nature and purpose of this ‘social capita... Read More about Evaluating shifting perceptions and configurations of social capital in leadership development.

A systems approach to tackling severe and multiple disadvantage (2022)
Digital Artefact

ILA Fellow Richard Bolden discusses his work leading an independent evaluation of Bristol Golden Key, a collaborative partnership project designed to transform services for people with multiple complex needs such as homelessness and substance misuse.... Read More about A systems approach to tackling severe and multiple disadvantage.

My Food Community: Summary evaluation findings from the first delivery of the programme in 2021–22 (2022)
Report

The Soil Association’s My Food Community is a community leadership programme intended to create ‘a network for good food champions to learn, connect and take action’. My Food Community forms part of Food for Life Get Togethers, a UK-wide National Lot... Read More about My Food Community: Summary evaluation findings from the first delivery of the programme in 2021–22.

My Food community: Full evaluation report on the first delivery of a community food leadership programme (2022)
Report

In the context of the current cost of living crisis, many activists are working within their communities to promote access to affordable, healthy, and sustainable food. Yet there are very few opportunities share experiences, ideas and resources betw... Read More about My Food community: Full evaluation report on the first delivery of a community food leadership programme.

Leadership and culture (2023)
Book Chapter

Interest in the relationship between leadership and culture first garnered attention during the ‘cultural turn’ in management and organization studies in the 1980s (Peters & Waterman, 1982; Smircich and Morgan, 1982; Morgan, 1986) and has grown consi... Read More about Leadership and culture.

Rise of the machines (2023)
Digital Artefact

ILA Fellow, Professor Richard Bolden (University of the West of England), asked ChatGPT-4 to identify the top implications of AI for leadership. Bolden shares the generative AI’s response as well as some general principles leadership professionals ca... Read More about Rise of the machines.