BAM LLD and BJM Special Issue on Dark Leadership Workshop

Dr Sinem Bulkan

Lecturer in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour, Henley Business School

Dr Sinem Bulkan is a Lecturer in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour and Programme Director for the Improvement Leader Apprenticeship/ Henley Executive Diploma in Managing Business Transformation at Henley Business School.

Sinem holds a PhD (Eng) in Organisational Behaviour from Marmara University, Istanbul, and an MA in Finance and Accounting from Kingston University, London. Her PhD research explored the effects of psychopathic manager behaviour on employee deviant behaviours through the mediating effect of revenge motive and moderating roles of attitude importance and core self-evaluations.

Before her academic career, Sinem gained 12 years of work experience as a regional sales manager and finance manager in the automotive and education sectors in Istanbul.

Her research interests lie in the area of the impact of dark leadership (psychopathic manager behaviour, narcissistic leadership, abusive supervision etc) on employee behaviours and attitudes. Sinem has presented her research at academic conferences such as the British Academy of Management (BAM) 2018, the European Academy of Management (EURAM) 2018 and 2019 and Irish Academy of Management (IAM) 2019, where she received the Best Paper Award.

Professor Christian Harrison

Professor of Leadership and Enterprise, University of Bolton

Christian Harrison is a Professor of Leadership and Enterprise in the University of Bolton. He is the Director of the Centre for Leadership and Empowerment in Greater Manchester Business School. He is also leading the Research Excellence Framework (REF) for Unit of Assessment 17 in the Business School. Christian is a well-known and recognised scholar in the field of Leadership and provides regular expert media commentary on Scottish Television News (STV), Scotland Tonight, the Herald, the Conversation, Sunday Post, the Guardian Nigeria.

He is also the author of numerous published research papers on Leadership which is his major research interest and serves as the Director of Studies/First Supervisor of several Doctoral students. He has successfully supervised several doctoral students to completion and his current students are working on projects on Authentic leadership, Entrepreneurial leadership, Transformational leadership, Ethical leadership etc.

Furthermore, he is an active member of several learned organisations. He is the Chair of the Leadership and Leadership Development Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management and Chair of the Academy for African Studies. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Business Administration and Knowledge Management (FIBAKM), Associate Vice President, Chartered Institute of Business Administration and Knowledge Management and serves on several review panels, committees and editorial boards. He is an external examiner to other UK universities such as Heriot Watt University, De Montfort University and University of Aberdeen. Christian is the editor of New Frontiers in African Business and Society by Emerald Publishing and Routledge Studies in Leadership and Leadership Development. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and a Certified Management and Business Educator of the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CMBE).

Christian works extensively as a consultant, speaker and trainer on leadership skills development within organisations.  He has delivered several CPDs and sessions on leadership to the Scottish Government Directors, UK Cabinet office staff, NHS, corporate organisations, SMEs etc. He is the founder of the NGO; The Leadership Mould Initiative International and the author of the bestselling book entitled ‘Leadership Theory and Research: A Critical Approach to New and Existing Paradigms’ published by Palgrave MacMillan. In addition, Christian has also authored several video publications on leadership. These videos cover established leadership theories providing a nuanced conceptualisation of the field.

Professor Malcolm Higgs

Professor of Leadership and Strategy, Birmingham City University Business School

Malcolm Higgs is a Professor of Leadership and Strategy at Birmingham City University Business School and an Emeritus Professor of Organisation Behaviour at Southampton University. He is also a visiting Professor at the Fortune Institute of International Business in Delhi, India.

Prior to joining BCU, he was Professor of Organisation Behaviour at Hull University Business School. Prior to that he was the head of the HRM and OB department in Southampton University Business school, having previously been the Head of the School. Before joining Southampton, Malcolm held posts at Henley Business School including Academic Dean, Director of the Leadership Group and Research Director.

Before moving into academia, Malcolm had a career in consulting with 9 years as an international partner with Towers Perrin.

He is a chartered occupational psychologist and has developed psychometric instruments for the assessment of Emotional Intelligence and Emotionally Intelligent Leadership as well as continuing with consulting activities. His research interests relate to many aspects of leadership, emotional intelligence, and change management as well as a range of broader organisation behaviour topics relating to both leaders, followers and organisational culture.

Malcolm has published extensively in many leading academic journals as well as writing a range of books.

Professor Martyna Śliwa

Professor of Business Ethics, Durham University Business School

Martyna Śliwa is Professor of Business Ethics and Associate Dean for Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability at Durham University Business School UK.

Her research focuses on diversity, inclusivity and intersectionality in organizations, language differences and their effects on organizational hierarchies and power relations.

She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Management Learning and the Vice-Chair for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity for BAM.

Professor Clive Boddy

Deputy Head of the School of Management, Anglia Ruskin University

Professor Clive Boddy currently has a Deputy Head of School position at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK. He was previously Professor of Management at the University of Tasmania and Professor of Leadership in Middlesex, London. In a groundbreaking and paradigm-busting series of academic research papers, magazine articles, book chapters and books, Clive has published more material on the effects of corporate psychopaths on employees, organisations and society than any other academic. His work has comprehensively broken the paradigmatic view of psychopaths as merely anti-social, impulsive, violent criminals and is in the top 1% most referred to by other business and ethics researchers globally. Clive's work has shown that political psychopaths are instrumental in destabilizing societies, corporate psychopaths are involved in destroying organizations and financial psychopaths are involved in undermining economies. All on a grand scale. Organisational psychopaths thus remain one of the main threats to global business ethics and socio-economic sustainability.

In terms of TV documentaries Clive has appeared in “Power Psychopaths” (in UK Channel 5’s series “Meet the Psychopaths”) and “The Psychopaths Next Door” (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) talking about corporate psychopaths and their role in corporate banking and the events leading up to the global financial crisis of 2007 onwards. Currently one of his most cited papers is the ‘corporate psychopaths theory of the global financial crisis’.

Clive’s publications on corporate psychopaths include two books, most recently: “A Climate of Fear: Stone Cold Psychopaths at Work” and before that "Corporate Psychopaths: Organizational Destroyers". Clive’s TEDx talk: “Bullying and Corporate Psychopaths at Work” has been viewed over 1.4 million times and can be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlB1pFwGhA4.

Professor Dennis Tourish

Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies, University of Sussex Business School

Dennis Tourish is Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies at the University of Sussex Business School. Among his research interests are the dark side of leadership; leadership and organisational effectiveness; hubris in leadership; research misconduct; and, influence processes within organisations that can be described as cults. He has co-written or co-edited eight books, including ‘Management Studies in Crisis: Fraud, Deception and Meaningless Research', published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. He has published over seventy peer reviewed journal articles on these topics.

In 2020 he published 'The triumph of nonsense in management studies' in the Academy of Management Learning & Education. The paper went on to win its paper of the year award. Dennis has also contributed a chapter on ‘Leadership and cults’ to the SAGE Handbook of Leadership (2011). A paper he published in 2005 has been republished in a SAGE series devoted to ‘Major Works in Leadership: Vol. 4’ (2011). Dennis was an associate editor for Management Communication Quarterly from 2009-2012. From 2014 to 2022 he was editor of the journal Leadership. Currently, he serves on the Editorial Boards of Organization Studies and the Academy of Management Learning & Education.

In addition, Dennis has extensive experience of consultancy and executive education with a range of public and private sector organisations. He has been interviewed frequently on radio and television about his research, including on SKY News, BBC News, ITV News, and BBC World News. He regularly speaks at professional conferences.

Professor Christian Harrison

Professor of Leadership and Enterprise, University of Bolton

Christian Harrison is a Professor of Leadership and Enterprise in the University of Bolton. He is the Director of the Centre for Leadership and Empowerment in Greater Manchester Business School. He is also leading the Research Excellence Framework (REF) for Unit of Assessment 17 in the Business School. Christian is a well-known and recognised scholar in the field of Leadership and provides regular expert media commentary on Scottish Television News (STV), Scotland Tonight, the Herald, the Conversation, Sunday Post, the Guardian Nigeria.

He is also the author of numerous published research papers on Leadership which is his major research interest and serves as the Director of Studies/First Supervisor of several Doctoral students. He has successfully supervised several doctoral students to completion and his current students are working on projects on Authentic leadership, Entrepreneurial leadership, Transformational leadership, Ethical leadership etc.

Furthermore, he is an active member of several learned organisations. He is the Chair of the Leadership and Leadership Development Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management and Chair of the Academy for African Studies. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Business Administration and Knowledge Management (FIBAKM), Associate Vice President, Chartered Institute of Business Administration and Knowledge Management and serves on several review panels, committees and editorial boards. He is an external examiner to other UK universities such as Heriot Watt University, De Montfort University and University of Aberdeen. Christian is the editor of New Frontiers in African Business and Society by Emerald Publishing and Routledge Studies in Leadership and Leadership Development. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and a Certified Management and Business Educator of the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CMBE).

Christian works extensively as a consultant, speaker and trainer on leadership skills development within organisations.  He has delivered several CPDs and sessions on leadership to the Scottish Government Directors, UK Cabinet office staff, NHS, corporate organisations, SMEs etc. He is the founder of the NGO; The Leadership Mould Initiative International and the author of the bestselling book entitled ‘Leadership Theory and Research: A Critical Approach to New and Existing Paradigms’ published by Palgrave MacMillan. In addition, Christian has also authored several video publications on leadership. These videos cover established leadership theories providing a nuanced conceptualisation of the field.