Leadership to save the world

 

The PnO research group at IOA and Cranet present:

Leadership to save the world

With Owain Smolović Jones, Professor in Organisational Studies, Durham University Business School 
 
We are hurtling towards apocalypse through a lethal convergence of violence, climate catastrophe, and multiple inequalities. Leadership is often seen as the remedy, yet it also produced many of the problems it is now asked to solve. Therefore, if leadership is going to help save the world, it needs to be radically re-envisaged. Such is the task considered in a new book by Owain Smolović Jones, due for release in 2026, which revisits the essentials of leadership – its relationship to resistance, time, space, and feeling. Drawing on organisation and political studies, geography, and social theory, as well as insights from global practitioners, Smolović Jones assembles a survival kit of practices for communities, workplaces, nations and beyond, providing a framework for leading differently in a world that urgently needs it. The seminar will particularly focus on the spatial and temporal, drawing on primary research with a government leading for a future that cannot speak and Palestinians on the ground in Gaza offering leadership in spaces near and far. Please do come along to offer feedback and reflections – a book, if not the world, may depend on it.

 

 

Information about the Event

Date and time Wednesday 10. December 2025 at 09:00 to 10:30

Registration Deadline Monday 8. December 2025 at 12:00

Location Kilen, KL 1.53
Kilevej 14
Frederiksberg
DK-2000

Organizer

Copenhagen Business School
Phone +45 3815 3815
seminar.ioa@cbs.dk

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