Lifetime Achievement Awardee
Robert Lord
Robert Lord is Professor of Leadership at Durham Business School and Director of Durham’s International Center for Leadership and Followership, Durham University. With a background in psychology, it is not surprising that Lord’s career has taken place at the intersections of leadership, cognitive science, neuro-cognitive science. His exploration of implicit leadership theories delved into how people experience and judge leaders and leadership processes and has been the basis of many research studies as has his work on leadership categorization and leadership prototypes, which was utilized in the GLOBE project.
At the forefront of recent trends, some of his research over the past ten years has emphasized that leadership perceptions have strong emotional components that reflect embodied cognition. Lord has also deployed quantum physics to consider the ways people travel through time, inventing new identities and creating new realities, and how identity and leadership perception engage information processing, motivation, and emotion.
He is the winner of numerous prestigious honors including: Leadership Quarterly’s Best Paper of the Year award; The Distinguished Scholar Award for Career Contributions to the Study of Leadership; and SIOP’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award; among others. The author of three books and over 140 refereed chapters and journal articles, Lord has prolifically explored the nooks and crannies of leadership.
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Oral History with Robert Lord
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Keynote session at ILA Brussels