Keith-Grint, Professor of Public Leadership at Warwick University
Keith Grint is Professor of Public Leadership at Warwick University. Before that he was Professor of Defence Leadership at Cranfield University and Deputy Principal at the Defence College of Management and Technology within the Defence Academy in Shrivenham. Previously he was Professor of Leadership Studies and Director of the Lancaster Leadership Centre at Lancaster University Management School. Before that he was Director of Research at the Saïd Business School and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour, Templeton College, University of Oxford. He remains an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School and of Green Templeton College, Oxford. He is Academician of the British Academy of Social Sciences. He is also a Visiting Research Professor at Lancaster University, a Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust, a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute, a research arm of the UK’s National School of Government, a Visiting Scholar at Sydney University, and a Fellow of the Leadership Trust.
Keith spent 10 years in industry before switching to an academic career and has been variously employed as an agricultural labourer, a factory worker, an industrial cleaner, a removals worker, a freezer operative, a swimming pool attendant, a postman, a clerical worker, and a part-time karate teacher.
He is a founding co-editor of the journal Leadership published by Sage
http://lea.sagepub.com/, and founding co-organizer of the International Conference in Leadership Research. He wrote the literature review for ‘Strengthening Leadership in the Public Sector’ (2000) a project of the Performance and Innovation Unit (Cabinet Office), see http://www.number-10.gov.uk/su/leadership/08/default.htm.
His books include The Sociology of Work 3rd edition (2005); Management: A Sociological Introduction (1995); 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); The Public Leadership Challenge (edited with Stephen Brookes) (2010); and Leadership: A Very Short Introduction (2010).
