Keith Grint is Professor of Public Leadership & Management at Warwick University. Before that he was Professor of Defence Leadership at Cranfield University and Deputy Principal (Leadership and Management) at the Defence College of Management and Technology within the Defence Academy in Shrivenham. Previously he was Professor of Leadership Studies and Director of the Lancaster Leadership Centre at Lancaster University Management School. Before that he was Director of Research at the Saïd Business School and Fellow in Organisational Behaviour, Templeton College, University of Oxford. He remains an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School and of Green Templeton College, Oxford. He is also a Visiting Research Professor at Lancaster University, a Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust, a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute, a research arm of the UK’s National School of Government and a Visiting Scholar at Sydney University.

Keith spent 10 years in industry before switching to an academic career and has been variously employed as an agricultural labourer, a factory worker, an industrial cleaner, a removals worker, a freezer operative, a swimming pool attendant, a postman, a clerical worker, and a part-time karate teacher.

He is a founding co-editor of the journal Leadership published by Sage http://lea.sagepub.com/, and founding co-organizer of the International Conference in Leadership Research. He wrote the literature review for ‘Strengthening Leadership in the Public Sector’ (2000) a project of the Performance and Innovation Unit (Cabinet Office), see http://www.number-10.gov.uk/su/leadership/08/default.htm. His books include The Sociology of Work 3rd edition (2005); Management: A Sociological Introduction (1995); Leadership (ed.) (1997); Fuzzy Management (1997); The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Society, (with Steve Woolgar) (1997); The Arts of Leadership (2000); Organizational Leadership (with John Bratton and Debra Nelson); Leadership: Limits and Possibilities (2005) and Leadership, Management & Command: Rethinking D-Day (2008).