Professor Jonathan Gosling is Director of Exeter University’s Centre for Leadership Studies, where he heads a team of people who work closely with companies on their leadership development. Current and recent partners include BAE Systems, Basell, Motorola, Royal Mail, Campbells, M&G, Hanson, the NHS and others, including several in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

The Centre for Leadership Studies offers advanced degrees in leadership studies, and in Finance and Leadership, from Certificate to MA and PhD level.

Jonathan's current and recent research projects include research into how leaders learn from each other, feeding in to non-formal but highly focused opportunities for senior directors to learn from their peers in other companies. Virtual Mindsets is the title of an on-going research programme into how managers provide leadership through digital media and virtual reality environments. ‘Leading Continuity’ is the headline for an action-research programme studying leadership through radical and often traumatic change. Members of this project are all very senior executives from companies around the world, working through an appreciative analysis of narrative processes in organisations and communities.

As Co-founder of the International Masters Program in Practising Management (www.impm.org), Jonathan ran one of the most exciting new developments in management education. A partnership of 7 Business Schools from around the world share in the development and delivery of a series of taught modules and other activities designed specifically for experienced managers in multi-national companies. (The partner schools are: Lancaster in the UK, McGill in Canada, IIM-Bangalore in India, JAIST, Hitotsubashi and Kobe in Japan, and INSEAD in France. The companies include: Alcan, Concert, EDF, Fujitsu, LG, Lufthansa, Matsushita, Motorola, the Red Cross, Royal Bank of Canada and others). Accounts of this programme are published in a number of articles, many co-authored with Henry Mintzberg. See www.impm.org for details and downloadable versions.

Amongst a number of spin-offs from this initiative – now commencing its 10th intake – is a new Advanced Leadership Program, and RoundTables, a means for integrating the EMBA programmes of leading business schools around the world.

Alongside these major initiatives Jonathan maintains the usual research and teaching responsibilities at Exeter, where he is part of a lively consulting practice. Working with a network of associates around the world, ‘CLS Fellows’ help companies to re-formulate their strategic direction and commitments. For example, a current project with a 3-way joint venture is helping the diverse managers from parent companies to formulate a shared identity. Jonathan is frequently a speaker at conferences and corporate events.

Prior to this Jonathan was the founding secretary of the European Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution, Visiting Professor at McGill University in Montreal, MBA Director for British Airways and Director of the PhD programme in Critical Management.

Jonathan was appointed a Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust in February 2006. He is also Trustee for a number of Charities and Foundations.