Jonathan Gosling is Emeritus Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter, having been Chair and Director of the Centre for Leadership Studies there for 12 years, prior to which he directed the Strategic Leaders Unit at Lancaster University Management School. He has played a key role in developing innovative leadership and management education programmes, including the International Masters in Practicing Management, One Planet MBA, and Roundtables for Practicing Managers. Jonathan has been a Visiting Professor at universities in Canada, China, Denmark, France, New Zealand and Sweden and currently acts in an advisory capacity for leadership-related projects in commercial, governmental and activist organizations. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the ILA in 2021 and is currently Scholar in Residence.

Multiple award-winning executive educator and author whose teaching and research interests span the globe, Dr. Mansour Javidan received his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota. He is Garvin Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of Najafi Global Mindset Institute at Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. He is a former Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Leadership Association. Mansour is former President of the world-renowned research project on national culture and leadership, titled GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness, globeproject.com) and is currently Project Director and Principal Co-Investigator of GLOBE 2020, working with a team of 426 researchers studying culture change, leadership ideals, and trust dynamics. The project has received close to $2.0 million in funding and has completed data collection from over 50000 managers and professionals in 144 countries. Mansour received the Decade’s Best Paper Award by the Academy of Management Perspectives. He is recognized as among the top 100 most influential authors in Organization Behavior in the world and among the top 2% most cited scientists in the field of business and management in the world. The World Bank and the United Nations Development Program have designated Dr. Javidan an expert advisor on Global Leadership. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has designated him an expert on managing diversity. Mansour has designed and taught executive development courses and workshops, conducted consulting projects, and made presentations in over 35 countries.

Dr. Barbara Kellerman was Founding Executive Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School; the Kennedy’s School’s James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Leadership; and a member of the Harvard faculty for over twenty years. She is currently a Fellow at the Center. Kellerman has held professorships at numerous universities including George Washington and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University and was the recipient of a Danforth Fellowship and three Fulbright fellowships. Kellerman was a cofounder of the International Leadership Association.

Kellerman is the author and editor of numerous books including: Bad Leadership; Followership; Leadership: Essential Selections (2010); The End of Leadership (2012); Hard Times: Leadership in America (2014), Professionalizing Leadership (2018), and (with Todd Pittinsky) Leaders Who Lust: Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitimacy, Legacy. She has appeared on media outlets such as CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, Reuters, and BBC, and has contributed articles and reviews to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Harvard Business Review.

She is a globally renowned speaker who has addressed audiences all over the world including in Berlin, Moscow, Melbourne, Sao Paolo, Jerusalem, Mumbai, Toronto, Kyoto, Beijing, Buenos Aires, Sydney, and Seoul. She received the Wilbur M. McFeeley Award from the National Management Association for her pioneering work on leadership and followership, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Leadership Association. Since 2015, she has been listed by Global Gurus as among the “World’s Top 30 Management Professionals,” and in 2023 she was ranked #10 on the list.

Her most recent book — The Enablers: How Team Trump Flunked the Pandemic and Failed America — was published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press. Her next book, Leadership from Bad to Worse, will be published by Oxford University Press in early 2024.

Kellerman regularly posts digital articles at https://barbarakellerman.com/articles/, which is where this blog was originally published.

Sonia M. Ospina is Professor of Public Management and Policy, at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She is the former Faculty Director of the Research Center for Leadership in Action (RCLA). Her present academic interests include collective leadership and democratic governance, both in the U.S. and Latin America. She became a leadership scholar by directing a multi-year, national research project that invited 92 U.S. social change organizations to coproduce new knowledge about leadership and social transformation. The resulting practitioner leadership stories, pedagogical cases, peer-reviewed journal articles and other publications theorized collective leadership, identified social change leadership practices, and explored the relationship between race and leadership, among other contributions. Sonia grew up in urban Bogotá, and worked in the education field until returning to the U.S. where she was born to Colombian parents. She has lived with her family for 34 years in another great urban space, New York City. Sonia’s bi-cultural experience and strong ties to both countries are embodied in her transnational and multicultural approach to life. She has a PhD in Sociology, an MS in Policy and Management from SUNY at Stony Brook and a BA in Education and Social Sciences from Universidad Javeriana in Colombia.