Keynote speakers

Barbara Kellerman

Harvard Kennedy School, USA
One of the world’s most influential leadership scholars, Barbara Kellerman has reshaped how we think about power, followership, and bad leadership. Author of Bad Leadership and The End of Leadership, her work boldly confronts the myths of heroic leadership and calls for a more honest, critical understanding of leadership's dark sides. 

Ståle Einarsen

University of Bergen, Norway
A pioneer in the field of workplace bullying and destructive leadership, Ståle Einarsen has spent over two decades exposing how toxic behaviors thrive in modern organizations. His research has helped define the contours of destructive leadership, bridging psychology, management, and organizational health. 

Birgit Schyns

Neoma Business School, France

A leading scholar in organizational behaviour and leadership research, her research focuses particularly on leadership, the follower side of leadership, and the dark side of leadership, including destructive leadership and dark personality. 

Stephen Linstead

University of York, UK
Known for his provocative, interdisciplinary lens on leadership and organization studies, Stephen Linstead brings philosophy, aesthetics, and cultural theory into the leadership conversation. His work examines ambiguity, identity, and the performative nature of leadership—often through the gothic, carnivalesque, or tragicomic.