Professor Brad Jackson
Associate Dean Strategic Engagement
Professor of Leadership and Governance
Keywords
Leadership; Management; Professional Learning
Leadership, Governance, Professional Learning and Place-Based Change
Qualifications: PhD (Lancaster) MA (UBC) BSc Hons (Bristol)
Contact Details
Email: brad.jackson@waikato.ac.nzRoom: MSB.3.37A
Phone: +64 7 838 4039
Cellphone: 022 017 7932
About Brad
Brad Jackson joined Waikato Management School as Associate Dean Strategic Engagement in May 2020. He also serves as Professor of Leadership and Governance.
Prior to joining Waikato University, Brad was the Professor of Social Innovation within the Department of Business Strategy and Innovation in the Griffith Business School based Brisbane, Australia. He also served as Program Director for the Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Management and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub.
Brad was Professor of Public and Community Leadership at Victoria University of Wellington where he also served as the Head of School of Government and the Head of School of Management. At the University of Auckland Business School, he was Co-Director of the New Zealand Leadership Institute and the Fletcher Building Education Trust Chair in Leadership.
Jackson has published seven books—Management Gurus and Management Fashions, The Hero Manager, Organisational Behaviour in New Zealand, A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Leadership, Demystifying Business Celebrity, Revitalising Leadership and The Board as the Nexus Between Leadership and Governance. He has also co-edited the Sage Handbook of Leadership and Major Works in Leadership. He is a former co-editor of the journal, Leadership, and the former Vice-Chair of the Akina Foundation, Toi Whakaari:NZ Drama School and the International Leadership Association.
Brad’s current research explores the inter-relationship between leadership and governance practices in promoting and sustaining social and economic innovation and the application of place-based approaches to foster cross-sectoral leadership development and education.
Research Supervised
Research Interests
Recent Publications
Ospina, S. M., Foldy, E. G., Fairhurst, G. T., & Jackson, B. (2020). Collective dimensions of leadership: Connecting theory and method. Human Relations, 73(4), 441-463. doi:10.1177/0018726719899714
Fairhurst, G. T., Jackson, B., Foldy, E. G., & Ospina, S. M. (2020). Studying collective leadership: The road ahead. Human Relations, 73(4), 598-614. doi:10.1177/0018726719898736
Jackson, B., Kempster, S., & Fulop, L. (2019). Professor Ken Parry. Journal of Management and Organization, 25(3), 355-363. doi:10.1017/jmo.2019.38
Jackson, B. (2019). The power of place in public leadership research and development. International Journal of Public Leadership, 15(4), 209-223. doi:10.1108/ijpl-09-2019-0059
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