Carol Jarvis is Professor in Knowledge Exchange and Innovation at the Bristol Business School, University of the West of England. As a researcher, she is passionate about leadership learning and practices; the everyday experience of change and innovation in organisations; and team-based ‘learning through doing’. Much of her learning and teaching is on executive education programmes, with a specific focus on leadership for innovation and change and coaching and mentoring. Her research and teaching are informed by 20 years of experience of running her own consultancy practice, concerned with building and delivering sustainable innovations achieved through collaboration and individual, team and organisational learning and development. She is an experienced coach and facilitator, coaching in both individual, team and group settings.
Hugo Gaggiotti is a Professor in Work and Employment at the Bristol Business School, University of the West of England. The focus of his writing is on the intersections between rhetoric, rituals and the construction of the meaning of work, professional wellbeing, leadership and vulnerability in organisations. He conducted his fieldwork for many years in the borderlands industrial regions of Pindamonhangaba (Brazil), Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), Almaty (Kazakhstan) and currently in the US-Mexican borderlands of Baja California. His work has appeared in a range of interdisciplinary journals. His most recent research focus, in collaboration with Selen Kars-Unluoglu and Carol Jarvis, is on the impact of repetitive crises in women’s organisational practices of recovery.
Selen Kars-Unluoglu is an Associate Professor in Organisation Studies in the Bristol Business School at the University of the West of England. Her research seeks to understand how entrepreneurs, leaders and organisations develop their capabilities for sustainable futures. In researching these issues, she is committed to attending to the everyday lived experience, and as such, her work is informed by practice-based approaches. Selen works with organisations of all scales across many sectors, delivering leadership development programmes and facilitating organisational interventions, with a specific focus on instilling climates for learning and innovation and identifying practices for effectively engaging and empowering communities to enable sustainable change.
