W. B. Howieson - Leadership: The Current State of Play

Bernard Burnes is Professor of Organisational Change at Stirling Management School, University of Stirling. Before that, he was Professor of Organisational Change at the Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester. He is one of the leading international authorities on organisational change. His research covers organisational change in its broadest sense: in particular he is concerned with the way in which different approaches to change promote or undermine ethical behaviour in organisations.

Laurence Clarke, after starting his career as a researcher in Education at the University of Glasgow, went on to manage and lead several organisations such as an Advertising Agency, a Bakery and an Engineering Works before joining Stirling University as a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head in the Scottish Enterprise Foundation. Over the next four years, he transferred to Taylor Clarke, a Leadership and Organisational Development Consultancy where he was involved in developing and delivering large-scale leadership development programmes for the likes of DWP, Sun Microsystems, Social Services in Scotland and the Wood Group. He now concentrates on coaching senior leaders in Leadership.

Andrew I Edwards was born in Dundee where he qualified in dentistry in 1987. A period of junior positions in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery followed. He then gained FDS from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1993. He went to medical school qualifying MBChB from the University of Aberdeen in 1998. Basic surgical training was in the West of Scotland, and he was admitted as FRCS in general surgery of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1993. He went on to his higher surgical training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in the North West of England gaining the Intercollegiate Fellowship in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2006. He spent a period working in South Africa as Visiting Registrar at the University of Pretoria gaining valuable experience in facial trauma. He is currently Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon at The Royal Preston Hospital specialising in the surgical correction of facial deformity and facial trauma. He has presented nationally and internationally on education and on his own clinical practice forging links in India and recently China. Within the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, he is currently Director of Dental Examinations and will take up the position of Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery from October 2019.

Amanda Giles was commissioned as an Officer in the Royal Air Force in 1980 and enjoyed a varied career spanning 33 years. Initially employed in air traffic control and airport management specialisations, she moved across to leadership development and education management roles by way of an MSc in Defence Leadership with Cranfield University. Amanda spent several years designing and directing strategic leadership programmes for senior MoD leaders at the Leadership and Management Division of the Defence Academy. Latterly, she transferred to the Royal Air Force Leadership Centre where she was responsible for overseeing the leadership curriculum for all RAF staff and command programmes from airman initial entrant up to senior officers. As Fellow of both the Institute of Leadership and Management and the Chartered Management Institute, Amanda is currently the Head of the Centre for Staff and Educational Development at the University of East Anglia, where she leads a team responsible for the delivery of generic and professional training and development for a work force of over 3,500 staff. Amanda continues to research, write and advise on leadership development matters; her particular areas of interest include Ethical Leadership, Spiritual Leadership and comparative approaches to Just War Theory.