Women in Leadership

Professor Kim Turnbull James Kim Turnbull James is Professor (Emerita) of Leadership and Executive Learning at Cranfield School of Management. During her time with Cranfield, Kim’s leadership roles included membership of the School Executive, Dean of Faculty for Academic Affairs, Director of the Executive Doctorate in Business Administration, Director of Faculty Development and Director Women as Leaders programme. She is on the international editorial board of the journal Management Learning, with many publications on leadership and leadership development for both academic and practitioner readership. Kim received her PhD from the University of Aston in Birmingham for research into the leadership development of senior leaders. Kim is a Chartered Psychologist. Kim has worked with women’s leadership development throughout her career. She is interested in how women’s leadership in organisations is underrecognized and under -promoted. Kim researches new leadership practices that enable organizations to respond to complexity, work with adaptive challenges, and create the capacity for rethinking leadership. Her work includes the political and emotional dynamics that impact strategic change, drawing on systems psychodynamic thinking.

Kim designs and delivers leadership development interventions, including leadership programmes, coaching and team consulting, focused on learning embedded in real organisational problems. Her wide range of clients enables her to gain insight into many different organisations, cultures and working practices.

Outside of her leadership development activity, Kim is Chair of the Trustee Board for a charity which supports survivors of domestic abuse and violence.