This document discusses key requirements for leading organizational change in higher education. It identifies authentic leadership, agility and flexibility of leadership, and distributed leadership as important. Authentic leaders must be role models who inspire a shared vision and encourage others. Leaders must also be adaptable to change. Distributed leadership involves sharing leadership roles across an organization. Case studies of university leaders exemplify these leadership traits and culture changes at various institutions. The document provides a framework for conceptualizing and implementing sustainable organizational transformation in academia.

1. Leading Organisational Change:
Moving Into Thinking The Unthinkable
September 2012
Professor Stephanie Marshall
Deputy Chief Executive, Research and Policy

2. Be the best you can be
Positioning Where we want/
need to be
STRATEGY
Where we are
Capability

3. Conceptualising the new ‘normal’
• Also
known as ‘visioning’
• What does it smell like, look like and feel like? ...

4. Key Requirements to
Bring About Sustainable
Change
1. Authentic Leadership
2. Agility and Flexibility of Leadership
3. Distributed Leadership

5. A Major Challenge: Ensuring ‘Followership’
Particularly of Academics
‘Academic leadership’ will be a key
aspect of all involved in strategic
leadership.
Let’s explore...

6. “It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are
trying to lead and find no-one there.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

7. Authentic
1.
Leadership

8. So; what do academic leaders need to
look like etc?
Goffee & Jones (2000) Goffee & Jones (2009)

9. Authenticity & Creativity
Co-founded Microsoft in 1975 Started in Business at the age of 16

10. Nancy Rothwell
Dame Nancy Rothwell
• President & Vice Chancellor
of Manchester University

11. Kouzes and Posner (2003)
1 Model the way
2 Inspire a shared vision
3 Challenge the process
4 Enable others to act
5 Encourage the heart

12. Nobel Laureates: Individuality (Einstein)
• 1879 - 1955
• Developed the general
theory of relativity
• Published over 150 non-
scientific papers

13. Agility &
2. Flexibility of
Leaders

14. Gibbs et al (2009, 2012)
Bolden et al (2012)

15. University of Plymouth
Prof. Wendy Purcell
• Vice Chancellor &
Chief Executive

16. Birkbeck College, University of London
Prof. David Latchman
• Master

17. Distributed
3.
Leadership

18. Culture Change:
University of the West of England
Prof. Steven West
• Vice Chancellor

19. Culture Change: Leicester
Prof. Sir Robert
Burgess
• Vice Chancellor

20. Key Requirements to
Bring About Sustainable
Change
1. Authentic Leadership
2. Agility and Flexibility of Leadership
3. Distributed Leadership

21. Thank You