Developing Sustainable Leadership

Dr Brent Davies is Professor of International Leadership Development at the University of Hull . He is also a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education (University of London), Special Professor at the University of Nottingham and a Faculty Member of the Centre on Educational Governance at the University of Southern California. He is an Associate Director of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.Brent spent the first ten years of his career working as a teacher in South London. He then moved into higher education and now works exclusively on leadership and management development programmes for senior and middle managers in schools. He was Director of the International MBA in School Leadership at Leeds Metropolitan University. He then took up a post at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside to establish the first Chair in Educational Leadership and create the International Educational Leadership Centre in Lincoln. He moved to the University of Hull in 2000 to establish the International Leadership Centre. In 2004 he transferred within the University to become a research professor in leadership development at the Hull University Business School.

• Sustainable leadershipSustaining exhilarating leadership - Brent DaviesEnergising leadership for sustainability - Brian J CaldwellSustaining resilience - Andy Hargreaves and Dean FinkSustainability of the status quo - Christopher Day and Michele SchmidtDeveloping and sustaining school leaders: lessons from research - Terry DealSustaining leadership in complex times: an individual and system solution - Kenneth Leithwood, Scott Bauer and Brian RiedlingerLeadership sustainability in an emerging market environment - Michael Fullan and Lyn SharattSustaining leaders for system change - Guilbert C HentschkeLeadership succession - David Hopkins

′School leaders and teachers know a lot more than they think they do. So, what prevents the release of that creative energy? Look, no further than this thought provoking collection of essays from world leading scholars. It treats us to a kaleidoscopic view of what we do know, what we ought to know and what we urgently need to do to harness the power of sustainable leadership. Policy makers, please take careful note!′-John MacBeath, Professor Education Leadership, University of Cambridge′Offers a clarity to complex problems that enables both the academic and general reader to identify with the issues dealt with...the book is an enjoyable insight into several leaders′ view on leadership, which Brent Davies has pulled together well and which will be of use to headteachers, aspiring leaders and academics alike′ - International Journal of Educational Management