Professor James Bailey
James R. Bailey is the Tucker Professor of Leadership and Director of the World Executive MBA at George Washington University School of Business. He is also a Fellow at the Centre for Management Development at the London Business School, and Research Faculty in the Centre for the Study of Learning at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, GWU.
Areas of Specialisation
Professor Bailey has worked extensively as an executive educator, consultant or coach on issues relating to leadership, change management, executive development, emotional intelligence, competence motivation, management education, conflict management, skill development, and organisational change.
Client Organisations
James has been involved with the United Bank of Switzerland, Morgan Stanley, Nestle, and the US Congress. He co-authored successful grants from Lucent Technologies to examine the efficacy of their Learning and Performance Centre, and General Electric to establish a Learning Excellence Project.
Career Background
He previously worked at Rutgers University, where he was the Associate Dean of the School of Management, Associate Director of the Teaching Excellence Centre, and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme in Conflict Management. Additionally, he has held distinguished or visiting appointments at the Institute for Management Development (Switzerland), the William Davidson Institute of the University of Michigan Business School, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration (Finland), the American College of Greece, Adelaide University (Australia) and New York University.
Literature and Achievements
His scholarship on managerial and executive development has appeared in such outlets as Organisation Science, Human Performance, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Applied Behavioural Science, Journal of Management Education, Educational and Psychological Measurements and Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisations.
He is co-author of the International Encyclopaedia of Organisational Studies and the Handbook of Managerial and Organisational Wisdom (which received the 2006 Most Promising Management Book Award from the European Academy of Management), and has published over 50 papers, book chapters, reviews and case studies, and presented over 50 papers at academic conferences. He serves in an editorial capacity for several major scholarly journals, and is the past editor of the Academy of Management Learning & Education. He has appeared as a management authority on broadcast programmes such as the BBC, and has been cited in many newspaper and magazine articles, including Fortune and Forbes.
Dr. Bailey was named one of the top ten executive educators worldwide by the International Council for Executive Leadership Development in 2006, was the EMBA Educator of the Year in 2005 and Undergraduate Educator of the Year in 2003 at GWSB, and Professor of the Year for three consecutive years (1993-1995) at Rutgers. He is the recipient of the David L. Bradford Distinguished Educator Award, a national distinction bestowed by the Organisational Behaviour Teaching Society and the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.
