email: Keith.Grint@wbs.ac.uk

Profile (biography)

Keith Grint is Professor Emeritus at Warwick University where he was Professor of Public Leadership until 2018. He spent 10 years working in various positions across a number of industry sectors before switching to an academic career. He has held Chairs at Cranfield University and Lancaster University and was Director of the Lancaster Leadership Centre. He spent twelve years at Oxford University and was Director of Research at the Saïd Business School.

He is a Fellow of the International Leadership Association (ILA) and Professorial Fellow of the Australian Institute of Police Management (AIPM). He is a founding co-editor with David Collinson of the journal Leadership and co-founder of the International Studying Leadership Conference.

Research interests

Leadership

Mutiny

Resistance

Publications

Leadership (ed.) (1997); Fuzzy Management (1997); The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Society, (with Steve Woolgar) (1997); The Arts of Leadership (2000); Organizational Leadership (with John Bratton and Debra Nelson); Leadership: Limits and Possibilities (2005); Leadership, Management & Command: Rethinking D-Day (2008); Sage Handbook of Leadership (edited with Alan Bryman, David Collinson, Brad Jackson and Mary Uhl-Bien) (2010); Leadership: A Very Short Introduction (2010) Mutiny & Leadership (2021). Leadership: Limits and Possibilities 2^nd ed. (with Owain Smolović Jones) (2022).