ISLC 2021 - Rebooting resistance with David Collinson and Keith Grint

We are thrilled to be hosting this public lecture from two of the pre-eminent leadership thinkers in the world – Keith Grint and David Collinson.

They will be doing a joint talk on resistance and leadership, examining and rebooting both concepts so that they are more relevant to contemporary times.

Resistance is a neglected topic within leadership studies and an overlooked dynamic within leadership practice – but vital nevertheless, something that can teach us much about how power works in and against leadership practices.

Jolting our thinking on leadership and resistance, David and Keith will be taking us on a tour of Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, whistleblowing, strike action and historic slave revolts in Jamaica and Haiti. So come along to the lecture and catch this rare opportunity to see these two leading scholars teaming up to address some seriously big issues.

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Keith Grint has been Professor Emeritus at Warwick University since 2018. He spent 10 years working in various positions across a number of industry sectors before switching to an academic career. He is a Fellow of the International Leadership Association (ILA) and Professorial Fellow of the Australian Institute of Police Management (AIPM). He is also a founding co-editor with David Collinson of the journal Leadership, and co-founder of the International Studying Leadership Conference. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2012 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science (honoris causa) from Warwick University in 2013. He received the Chief Constable’s Commendation for Contribution to Police Leadership in 2018 and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Leadership Association in 2018.

David Collinson’s research focuses on critical approaches to leadership, management and organization. His primary research interests explore leadership and followership dialectics; power, identities and insecurities; gender, men and masculinities; conformity, dramaturgy and resistance, and humour, positivity and Prozac leadership.His work has also been published in leading journals such as Organization Studies, Human Relations, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Management Studies, Work, Employment & Society, Organization, Gender, Work & Organization, Leadership and Leadership Quarterly. He holds a doctorate, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in management from the University of Manchester. David is the Founding Co-Editor (with Keith Grint) of the peer reviewed, international journal 'Leadership'. The journal has established a reputation for critical, high quality and cutting-edge leadership research. In 2010 the journal was accepted into Thomson ISI Social Science Citation Index.