Director, Centre for Leadership Studies

Exeter University

Jonathan Gosling is Director of the University of Exeter 's Centre for Leadership Studies, the only University-based Centre of its kind in the UK . The Centre is dedicated to the development and further understanding of Leadership, and its flagship programme is an MA in Leadership Studies. Prior to this appointment Jonathan was Director of the Strategic Leaders Unit at Lancaster University, and he remains Chair of the International Masters in Practicing Management, a collaboration of seven business schools around the world that share in the delivery of taught modules for experienced managers in multinational companies. The group launched an Advanced Leadership Programme in 2002.

Jonathan's research focuses on leadership and ethics in current strategic changes, and on contemporary innovations in leadership development. His research into how leaders learn from each other led to the formation of Lead2Lead, an organisation that provides non-formal but highly-focused opportunities for senior directors to learn from their peers in other companies. A current research programme, Virtual Mindsets, investigates how top managers provide leadership in the new economy, and his most recent articles, written with Henry Mintzberg, are on leadership education.

His own first leadership experience came in 1983 when he set up Conflict and Change, the UK 's first mediation and conciliation scheme for community disputes, and as the founding secretary of the European Conference in Peacemaking and Conflict resolution. Jonathan's academic career includes MBA Director for British Airways, Director of the Strategic Leaders Programme for BAE Systems, Director of Lancaster University's PhD programme in Critical Management and Visiting Professor at McGill University in Montreal . He is a Trustee of the Fintry Trust, The J H Levy Trust, and Visiting Professor at Lancaster University .