Future Leadership of Organisations and Work Conference

Kevin Lowe

Kevin B. Lowe is Professor in Leadership in the University of Sydney Business School.  His research focuses on leadership and cross-cultural management. Kevin serves on several leading editorial boards including as Annual Yearly Review Editor at The Leadership Quarterly.  He is currently President of the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management.

Chad Chiu

Chia-Yen (Chad) Chiu is an Associate Professor in Leadership at the Adelaide Business School, the University of Adelaide. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources from the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. He has published in multiple top peer-reviewed journals in the academic field of organisational research (ABDC A*; FT 50 Journals). He currently serves as an Associate Editor of Human Relations (FT50/A*) and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management (FT50/A*) and Journal of Organizational Behavior (A*). 

Michelle Ryan

Michelle Ryan is the inaugural Director of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at The Australian National University (ANU), and a part-time Professor of Diversity at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She recently completed a European Research Council Consolidator Grant to investigate how context constrains women’s careers choices and with Alex Haslam uncovered the phenomenon of the glass cliff, whereby women are more likely to be placed in leadership positions that are risky or precarious.

Alex Newman

Alex is a Professor of Management and has published widely across the fields of organisational behaviour, leadership, HRM and entrepreneurship. He was recognized by Clarivate as a highly cited scholar in 2022 and has been recognised by the Australian Research Magazine as Australia's leading scholar in the areas of human resources and organisations and ethics.

Gillian Yeo

Gillian Yeo is Professor and Woodside Chair in Leadership and Management at the University of Western Australia Business School. She is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology. She primarily examines self-regulation at work – that is, how individuals regulate their motivation, emotions and cognitions over time, in relation to learning, performance and well-being. She primarily focuses on these concepts at a micro level, drawing on within-person theories and using experience sampling methodology in the laboratory and field. The outcomes of her research have informed training, performance management, and occupational health practices in a variety of work settings. She has published in a variety of journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology and Journal of Management.

Toby Newstead

Toby is a leadership scholar at the University of Tasmania. She has industry experience spanning communications, corporate change and leadership development. Her research and teaching focus on leadership development and leadership ethics, with a particular interest in virtues-based leadership and leadership in the volunteer sector.

Ruchi Sinha

Ruchi has a PhD in Organizational Psychology from Michigan State University (2010). She is currently an Associate Professor at UniSA Business School. In her work, Ruchi examines various topics ranging from conflict, leadership, voice and trust in teams to studying negotiation effectiveness. She has multiple industry-funded research projects and grants to conduct research on topics such as school climate, school leadership, and teamwork, as well as projects with collaborators in AI/ML and Neuroscience. Ruchi publishes in both academic journals and practitioner outlets.

Burak Oc

Burak Oc is currently an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Business School. Prior to joining Melbourne Business School, Burak was at the University of Western Australia Business School (UWABS) as a Senior Lecturer for two years. He has also worked as an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University and as a visiting scholar at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University. Burak earned his BA in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, holds a Master of Management from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), and completed his doctoral work in Economics, Finance and Management in 2014 at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His main research interests are leadership, power, and organisational justice and behavioural ethics. His current research examines how subordinates actively shape the behaviour of those with power over them through a process of social influence, and how different behavioural styles, in turn, shape subordinates’ perceptions and behaviours over time. Burak’s work has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and The Leadership Quarterly. Additionally, he is currently serving as an editorial board member at Journal of Organizational Behavior and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and an ad-hoc reviewer for Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Discoveries, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, The Leadership Quarterly, and Strategic Management Journal. Finally, he is currently serving as the PDW chair of the MOC Division of the Academy of Management.

Michael Platow

Michael Platow is a Professor of Psychology at ANU. He has published widely on the social-psychology of leadership and social influence; justice, fairness, and trust; intergroup relations, including prejudice and discrimination; and education. He has received over two million dollars in research money from the Australian Research Council to study many of these processes. His research has been recognised by his election as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, while his teaching has been recognised through receipt of the national Award for University Teaching – Award for Teaching Excellence. Michael is currently an ANU Distinguished Educator and is a former Associate Director (Science Education). He has been president of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists and the International Society for Justice Research. He is also a former Associate Editor of Social Psychology and Personality Science.

Nathan Eva

Associate Professor Nathan Eva is a Fulbright Scholar and works at the Monash Business School on Boon Wurrung Country. His research examines servant leadership and leadership development. Nathan is a board member of the Network of Leadership Scholars and a facilitator for the International Leadership Association’s Leadership Education Academy.

Chao Ma

Dr Chao Ma is a Lecturer in the ANU Research School of Management. He received BBA, with First Class Honours, from Hong Kong Baptist University, and earned MBus, Mphil, and PhD in management from ANU. His research interests include perceived overqualification and underemployment, career development, leadership, voice behaviour, proactivity, and HRM in China. His research has been published in Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Applied Psychology: An International Review, and Personnel Review.

David Cheng

David is a Senior Lecturer at the ANU Research School of Management. His research focuses on emotions and the effects they have on leaders and workers. David is an experimentalist whose work been published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior and the Journal of Vocational Behavior.

Mark Griffin

Mark Griffin is the Director of the Future of Work Institute at Curtin University. He is a Fellow of ASSA and US SIOP. He has been an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology and the Journal of Management, and founding Associate Editor of Organizational Psychology Review.

Alex Haslam

Alex Haslam is a Professor of Psychology and Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland. He has written 15 books and over 300 peer-reviewed articles exploring the contribution of group processes to social and organisational functioning with a particular emphasis on matters of leadership and health. Alex has received a range of major awards from scientific bodies around the world including recognition for distinguished contributions to psychological science from both the British and Australian Psychological Societies. In 2022, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia “for significant service to higher education, particularly psychology, through research and mentoring”.

Herman Tse

Herman Tse is a Professor in the Department of Management, Monash Business School, Melbourne. His research interests include leader-member exchange, emotions in teams and multilevel management issues. In recent years, his research has focused on studying the role of emotions in different types of interpersonal interactions among supervisors, subordinates and co-workers in work teams, using new theoretical perspectives and methodological techniques.

Sen Sendjaya

Sen Sendjaya is Professor of Leadership and Research Director at the Department of Management and Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology. A leading scholar in the field of servant leadership, his work has appeared in the Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Business Research, among other journals.

Giles Hirst

Giles Hirst is a Professor of Leadership at the ANU Research School of Management, and a 2023 Visiting Fellow at Judge Business School, Cambridge University. He is an organisational psychologist by training, with extensive experience in management consulting and industry-funded research, and is regularly in the media. Giles studies employee creativity and leadership. He completed his PhD at the Melbourne Business School and is an awarding winning educator. His leadership development programs help leaders use their unique strengths, connect with their purpose and through this achieve greater impact. He also has a strong commitment to researching and tackling social issues such as precarious work and enhancing refugee success at work. He regularly publishes in the top management journals; Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management and The Journal of Applied Psychology, where he serves as consulting editor. 

Jon Billsberry

Jon is Senior Professor of Leadership and Management at the School of Management, Operations and Marketing at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Management Education, Chair of the Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management, and as a Council Member of the British Academy of Management, of which he is a Fellow. He is a recipient of ANZAM’s Management Educator of the Year award. He has recently guest edited special issues of Academy of Management Learning & Education and the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.

Jon’s research interests are in the fields of person-environment fit, especially misfit and the negative implications associated with that condition such as organisational exit, depression and suicide, socially constructed approaches to leadership and the associated topic of implicit leadership theory, sport management, and management education. In all of these approaches, he is interested in people’s experience and how they make sense of the world. His research has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Sport Management, British Journal of Management and Journal of Business Ethics amongst others.

Amy Tian

Amy Wei Tian is an Associate Professor in human resource management (HRM) at the School of Management and Marketing, Curtin Business School. Amy’s research is multidisciplinary, and her main areas of research include leadership, HRM and multiculturalism. Her work has been published in top tier academic journals such as International Journal of Business Studies, the Leadership Quarterly, Human Resource Management, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. Amy also serves as Associate Editor for the Australian Journal of Management, as well as serve on the editorial boards for Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Research, and International Journal of Human Resource Management.

Andrew Yu

Andrew Yu is an Associate Professor and co-Director of the PhD Program for the Department of Management and Marketing at University of Melbourne. His research focuses on understanding the psychology of how people interact at work to inform leaders and decision-makers within organisations about creating effective, collaborative, and sustainable workplaces.




 

Nature walks and running trails in and around Canberra

While you are visiting Canberra, also known as the Bush Capital, you might like to explore some of the nearby nature reserves, mountain ranges and scenic walking trails.

Check out some of Canberra’s nature reserves, or select a destination from this list of must-do nature walks.

Other events

Browse through our upcoming ANU events or take a look at what is happening at some of our nearby National Cultural Institutions.

View the National Portrait Gallery events program, or see what’s screening at the National Film and Sound Archive.

Visit the National Gallery of Australia and see the permanent collection or new exhibition: Jonathan Jones: untitled (walam-wunga.galang), a collaborative project with Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi artist Jonathon Jones using sandstone grindstones and a soundscape in Wiradjuri language.

You can also visit What’s on in Canberra for a comprehensive calendar of events.