Professor Chellie Spiller

Professor of Management and Leadership

Keywords

Cultural Learning; Culture; Human Development; Indigenous Rights; Leadership; Maori; Maori Culture/Tikanga; Maori Governance; Maori Research; Maori Women

Wayfinding Leadership, Authentic Leadership, Collective Leadership, Māori Governance, Strategy, Decision-making, Wellbeing. Mindfulness, Spirituality in Business, Māori and Indigenous stewardship approaches

Personal Website: www.chelliespiller.com

Iwi: Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa

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Papers Taught

About Chellie

Dr Chellie Spiller, (hapū Matawhaiti Iwitea, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa), is a Professor at the University of Waikato's Management School. 

• Leadership. I'm especially interested in Wayfinding Leadership, Authentic Leadership, Collective/Relational Leadership, Wisdom, Leadership Development and Change, Spiritual and Servant Leadership
• Māori and Indigenous Business and Governance including Stewardship, Sustainability, Strategy and Decision-making
• Wisdom, Spirituality, Wellbeing and Mindfulness in Leadership and Business
• Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
• Sustainable Business and Social Enterprise.

I'm a committed advocate for Māori leadership, management, governance and business development. My PhD developed the notion of relational wellbeing and wealth across spiritual, environmental, social, cultural and economic dimensions at work and I continue to research and publish in this area. I am a co-principal investigator on a research team exploring Māori leadership in the context of decision-making.

My latest book is Practical Wisdom, Leadership and Culture: Indigenous, Asian and Middle-Eastern Perspectives co-edited with Ali Intezari and Shih-Ying Yang. The stories from contributors around the world are illuminating and inspiring.

In 2015 I released a book  with Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr and John Panoho on ‘Wayfinding Leadership’. Our training programmes are growing and currently being taught in a variety of domains, such as Air New Zealand’s middle management training programme, Global Women’s Breakthrough Leadership, the judiciary, professional sports teams, and the health sector. Wayfinding Leadership is included in the list of 150 books by leading Māori authors assembled by the Royal Society of New Zealand to celebrate 150 years of Māori non-fiction publications.

In 2013 my co-edited book with Donna Ladkin, Reflections on Authentic Leadership: Concepts, Coalescences and Clashes (Edward Elgar Press) was short-listed for an international leadership book award.

I bring over thirty years of corporate experience in tourism and marketing in New Zealand and abroad, holding senior executive positions, to my academic work and leadership and management development programmes.

Distinctions and awards

2021-2022 Atlantic Institute Leader-in-Residence, Rhodes Trust, Oxford University

2021 Research Advisory Group, Coastal People:Southern Skies CoRE

2021 Appointed Fellow, International Leadership Association

2021 Fellow, Dilin Duwa Aboriginal Centre, University of Melbourne

2020 Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Māori research excellence CoRE rebid team

2020 Coastal People:Southern Skies CoRE bid (Governance design reviewer)

2020-2021 Co-Theme Leader Whai Rawa Māori Economies, 2020 Ngā Pae CoRE

2020 Co-leader inaugural Indigenous stream, International Leadership Association

2019 AUT Masters Review working party

2018 Editorial Review Board for Academy of Management Perspectives

2018 Co-Chair Programs for International Leadership Association global conference

2016-2019 Judge on the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Seed and Scope funding

2017 Featured in “100 Māori Leaders” for services to community, Te Rau Matatini

2017 Co-awarded Ngā Pae major research grant Māori Leadership

2016 Finalist Māori Book of the Year Awards for Wayfinding Leadership (non-fiction)

2015 Early Career Research Excellence Award by the University of Auckland

2014 Leadership Book of the Year finalist: Reflections on Authentic Leadership

2013 Distinguished Visitor Award, Prof. Joe Kalt, Harvard University

2012 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Harvard University and University of Arizona

2012 Dame Mira Szászy Māori Business Leaders Alumni Award

2012 Best Reviewer Award Academy of Management (SIM)

2012 Te Amorangi National Māori Academic Excellence Award

2010 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings Award

2005 Inaugural Paul Kelly Scholar, University of Auckland

Links

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chellie_Spiller
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1234-1764
LinkedIn: https://nz.linkedin.com/in/chellie-spiller-60186a4
Website: www.chelliespiller.com

Research Supervised

Current or incoming PhD students:

Job Satisfaction of Women Teachers in Saudi Private Schools: Examining Perceptions, Understanding Challenges and Intention to Leave the Job by Hana Alsubaie

Full of Holes or Full of Wholes: Exploring the Use of Metaphors in Aotearoa Leadership by Andrew Melville

Pae Oranga Whakatere - Navigating Horizons of Well-being by Johnnie Freeland

Research Interests

• Leadership. I'm especially interested in Wayfinding Leadership, Authentic Leadership, Collective/Relational Leadership, Wisdom, Leadership Development and Change, Spiritual and Servant Leadership
• Māori and Indigenous Business and Governance including Stewardship, Sustainability, Strategy and Decision-making
• Wisdom, Spirituality, Wellbeing and Mindfulness in Leadership and Business
• Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
• Sustainable Business and Social Enterprise.