Richard Bolden

Richard Bolden is Professor of Leadership and Management and Director of Bristol Leadership and Change Centre at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England. His teaching and research explore the interface between individual and collective approaches to leadership and leadership development. He has published on topics including distributed, shared and systems leadership; leadership paradoxes and complexity; cross-cultural leadership; and leadership and change in healthcare and higher education. He is Associate Editor of the journal Leadership, Fellow of the International Leadership Association, Visiting Professor at the University of Pretoria and Senior Fellow of Advance HE. His books include Lead from Where You Are (Kogan Page, 2026), Exploring Leadership: Individual, Organizational and Societal Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2023, 2011) and Leadership Paradoxes: Rethinking Leadership for an Uncertain World (Routledge, 2016).