Dr Marian Iszatt-White
Senior LecturerProfile
Dr Marian Iszatt-White is a Senior Lecturer in the area of authentic leadership and leadership-as-stewardship.
After a successful career in financial risk management, latterly as Group Treasurer of Top 100 plc Enterprise Oil, Marian built a business as a freelance training consultant before completing an MSc in Organizational Behaviour at Birkbeck, including a dissertation on ‘what makes employees feel valued at work’.
She undertook her PhD research at Lancaster University, within the Centre for Excellence in Leadership, conducting an ethnomethodologically-informed ethnography of leadership in the learning and skills sector. Within this thesis, special areas of interest included leadership as ‘emotional labour’ and the idea of strategy as a ‘perennially unfinished project’.
As a Senior Teaching Fellow in the School's Management Development Division, she was Director of the Executive MBA on which she also taught leadership and organisational behavour. She is now a Senior Lecturer in Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy and has recently stepped down after six years as LUMS Doctoral Director. During her tenure, she also served on the Doctoral Academy Oversight Group, and chaired one of its strategic working groups. She retains her interest in doctoral capacity building in the role of Dapartmental Doctoral Director for ENST.
Her research interests derive from the practice turn within leadership, and she has built an international profile within this movement, including being co founder of the Leadership-as-Practice Learning Academy. Work around the need re-ground authentic leadership from a practice perspective in order to establish it as ‘fit for purpose’ for practicing leaders has led to a wider interest in problematizing all forms of 'aspirational' leadership (such as responsible, sustainable and ethical leadership) and the problem of inquiry versus advocacy in the field leadership scholarship. The resultant shift in her research focus towards stewardship-as-leadership has received new significance in the context of her membership of the Pentland Centre for Sustainable Business and the role of leadership in the resolution of the Global Challenges with which they are concerned.
Qualifications
Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy (ATLAS) (2017)
PG Certificate in Academic Practice - Lancaster University (2020)
PG Certificate of acheivement in Coaching and Mentoring - Lancaster University (2009)
PhD Management: Lancaster University Management School (2006). Thesis Topic: Leadership in Further Education
MSc Organisational Behaviour: Birkbeck College, University of London (2002). Dissertation Topic: What makes employees feel valued at work?
CIPD Certificate in Training Practice (1997)
PG Diploma, Association of Corporate Treasurers (1993)
MA (Oxon) Philosophy, Politics and Economics: St Hilda's College, Oxford (1983)
Research Interests
My research interests focus on the practice turn in leadership, and its daily accomplishment through discourse. Specific areas of interest include problematizing 'aspirational' forms of leadership - and in particular, authentic leadership - and the notion of leadership-as-stewardship as a radical response to global challenges.
PhD Supervision Interests
Leadership as emotional labour Authentic leadership Leadership identities and identity work Stewardship
B-School to ESG-School
17/07/2023 → 17/07/2025
Research
SAMS Collaboratory for developing humanitarian leadership education
01/11/2018 → 30/11/2018
Research
SAMS Innovations on the structured writing retreat for early career researchers in management
12/09/2018 → 30/09/2019
Research
Co-constructed coaching as a leadership learning intervention
01/06/2012 → 31/05/2013
Research
Innovations on the Structured Writing Retreat for Early Career Researchers in Management
01/01/1900 → …
Other
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Visiting an external academic institution
Embedding the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Postgraduate and Management Education
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
15th Developing Leadership Capacity Conference (DLCC)
Participation in conference - Academic
Mainstreaming the SDGs in Management Education
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Univ Complutense Madrid
Visiting an external academic institution
Leadership-as-Practice Learning Academy webinar
Invited talk
Stewardship
Invited talk
LAP methods and methodology
Invited talk
Academy of Management Learning and Education (Journal)
Editorial activity
Stewardship: The new leadership?
Invited talk
Developing theory from literature reviews
Invited talk
Developing theory from literature reviews
Invited talk
Leadership (Journal)
Editorial activity
International Journal of Management Reviews (Journal)
Editorial activity
LAP Methods and Methodology
Invited talk
Are you an authentic leader?
Invited talk
Leadership (Journal)
Editorial activity
International Journal of Management Reviews (Journal)
Editorial activity
British Academy of Management (External organisation)
Membership of council
Digitally mediated leadership: What covid has taught us about leading remotely
Invited talk
Getting published in top journals
Invited talk
IJMR Paper development workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Journal of Management Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity
Management Learning (Journal)
Editorial activity
Journal of Management Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity
Oxford Brooks University, Oxford, UK.
Visiting an external academic institution
European Group for Organisational Studies 35th Colloquium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Authentic Leadership: Getting back to the roots of the ‘root construct’?
Invited talk
International Journal of Management Reviews (Journal)
Editorial activity
British Academy of Management Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
International Journal of Management Reviews (Journal)
Editorial activity
Problematizing authentic leadership through an emotional labour lens
Invited talk
International Leadership Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
British Academy of Management
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
European Group for Organisational Studies 34th Colloquium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
International Journal of Management Reviews (Journal)
Editorial activity
Are you an authentic leader?
Invited talk
International Journal of Management Reviews (Journal)
Editorial activity
Emotional labour and authentic leader identity
Invited talk
Being an authentic leader
Invited talk
British Academy of Management Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
External panel member
Other
External panel member
Other
British Academy of Management 2018 conference
Other
British Academy of Management Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
British Academy of Management 2017 conference
Other
Qualitative Publishing Workshop
Other
Deputy Chair and Lancaster Lead
Other
British Academy of Management Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
14th International Studying Leadership Conference (ISLC)
Other
British academy of Management Conference 2016
Other
British Academy of Management
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
British Academy of Management Conference 2015
Other
6th International Studying Leadership Conference
Other
Organization Studies and Leadership
Examination
British Academy of Management Conference
Other
British Academy of Management Conference
Other
3rd Developing Leadership Capacity Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
PG Dip in Manufacturing
Examination
PG Cert in Professional Coaching Practice
Examination
best developmental paper BAM 2018
Other distinction
best developmental paper BAM 2014
Prize (including medals and awards)
Best developmental paper award, BAM 2019
Prize (including medals and awards)
Reviewer of the Year IJMR
Prize (including medals and awards)
Centre for Scholarship and Innovation in Management Education, Pentland Centre
- Centre for Scholarship and Innovation in Management Education
- Pentland Centre