23rd International Studying Leadership Conference

Dr Elena P Antonacopoulou

Dr Elena P Antonacopoulou is Professor of Management at the American University of Beirut - Mediterraneo, in Cyprus. She previously served as tenured faculty (full professor) at universities in the UK, including Warwick, Manchester and Liverpool, and Western University in Canada, where she contributed through her teaching to the design and delivery of prominent MSc, MBA and DBA programs at postgraduate and post-experience levels.

Dr Antonacopoulou's principal research expertise lies in organisational learning, strategic resilience and renewal, and the future of work, with a focus on the leadership implications and the role of practical judgment therein.

She is published widely in international journals and edited books and policy reports. Her practice-relevant scholarship has earned her many research grants, awards and accolades recognising the impact of the ideas developed. She has been elected and served in multiple leadership roles in the top professional bodies in the management field, including AOM, EURAM, EGOS, and BAM, and has received several awards for her outstanding leadership and service contributions and teaching excellence.

Dr Antonacopoulou has led interdisciplinary, international multi-stakeholder research teams on high profile research programs funded by research funding councils in the UK and EU, and has been an invited co-author of policy and evaluation reports by professional bodies and think tanks with the aim of improving professional practices. She is frequently invited to deliver keynote speeches in international conferences and workshops that inspire and promote action choices that serve the common good. She is a certified coach from the International Coaching Federation and practises as an axiologist — enabling true-self breakthroughs. She founded the GNOSIS Institute to promote knowledge philanthropy and to avert 'humane poverty' by designing innovative leadership and organisational development programs.

• ORCID: 0000-0002-0872-7883
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Professor Steffen Böhm

Traumas of leadership: psycho-social encounters in times of crisis

Steffen Böhm PhD FRSA is Professor in Organisation and Sustainability in the University of Exeter Business School's Department of Management.

Professor Böhm's work focuses on understanding the role of business in tackling today’s grand challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality. His unique approach sees firms as part of contested system dynamics between civil society, state, and nonhuman actors. His work has mostly focused on circular food systems, energy and climate justice, and nature recovery – often from a place-based perspective.

He supervises many research and engagement projects by undergraduate, Masters, and PhD students, working with postdoctoral researchers, activists, managers, policy makers, and other changemakers in Cornwall, Southwest England, and beyond.

• Website: steffenboehm.net