Professor Sharon Turnbull is Director of the Research Centre for Applied Leadership. She is also Visiting Professor at the Universities of Gloucestershire and Worcester, Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Lancaster University Management School and Fellow at Durham Business School, and a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Sharon has researched, published, taught and consulted to organisations in the field of organisational culture and change, and has a background in Human Resource Development having worked in a number of large organisations prior to embarking on an academic career. She gained her PhD for research into corporate ideology and its influences on middle management, studying the responses of middle managers to organisational values programmes. This involved evaluating the impact of a major corporate change programme. She also has an MBA degree with distinction from Lancaster University and a BSc degree in Linguistic and International studies from the University of Surrey.
Sharon has directed and taught on several MBA programmes, the MA in Management Learning and various Masters and Doctoral programmes, and is currently Cycle Director of the International Master's Programme in Practising Management, run by a consortium of five top business schools worldwide.
She is co-author of Your MBA with Distinction: Developing a Systematic Approach to Succeeding in Your Business Degree, co-editor of Critical Thinking in Human Resource Development, member of the editorial boards of the journals Human Resource Development Review and Advances in Developing Human Resources, and member of the management board of Human Resource Development International. She is also co-author of Stimulating Leaders: Developing Manufacturing Leadership Skills and was director of the research programme that led to the report; and director of The Trust's leadership development programme for Sheffield Hallam University.
Your MBA with Distinction: Developing a systematic approach to succeeding in your business degree