David A. Buchanan  BA  PhD  FRSA  FCIPD  FBAM
David is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Cranfield University School of Management, specializing in change management and change agency, and organization politics.  He has a Doctorate in Organizational Behaviour from Edinburgh University.  He was recently academic adviser to the NHS Modernisation Agency Research Into Practice Programme, exploring factors affecting the spread and sustainability of new working practices in healthcare.  He is author/co-author of over two dozen books, one of which has since 1985 been a best seller: Organizational Behaviour (with Andrzej Huczynski; seventh edition 2010).  He has co-authored several books on change management, including: The Sustainability and Spread of Organizational Change: Modernizing Healthcare (with Louise Fitzgerald and Diane Ketley, 2007), and Power, Politics and Organizational Change: Winning the Turf Game (with Richard Badham, 2008).  He is also co-editor (with Alan Bryman) of The Sage Handbook of Organizational Research Methods (2009), and has written numerous book chapters, papers, and articles on organizational behaviour and change.  Current projects include an SDO-funded study of the realities of management in healthcare, management attitudes to organization politics, and managing change in extreme contexts - including incidents that adversely affect patient safety in hospital.

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David Denyer BSc PhD
David is a Professor of Organizational Change at Cranfield School of Management, specializing in high reliability organization design, managing change in extreme contexts, organizational networks and evidence-based management. David has worked on a large number of projects with a range of organizations in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Assignments have included high reliability planning and implementation, safety, risk and reliability workshops, organization audits, organizational network analysis and the design and delivery of a range of executive development workshops. David's work provides diagnostic and design expertise, based on the synthesised experiences of many organizations from a variety of sectors. Complex management concepts are distilled down into highly informative and fun learning activities that are designed to help management teams review their practice, identify key levers for improvement and plan change interventions accordingly. David has successfully completed two research council funded projects and numerous other public and industry funded research projects. He has been a Scholar of the Advanced Institute for Management since 2003 and is a member of the International Evidence-based Management Collaborative. He is frequently a speaker at international management conferences and has published widely.  David is Director of the Cranfield PhD Programme.

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Colin Pilbeam MA (Oxon) PhD MBA DBA
Colin spent 15 years as a post-doctoral research fellow studying nutrient and water dynamics in different crop production systems in developing countries (Kenya, Syria and Nepal) in order to develop sustainable nutrient management practices for resource poor farmers. During this time he became aware of the difficulties of integrating objectives and activities of different organizations to effectively and efficiently achieve results. This sparked a research interest in inter-organizational relations. Many of the challenges faced by organizations (or their constituent units) stem from their need to engage with others. He is keen to explore the processes of coordination that contribute to the occurrence of an incident, and that aid recovery afterwards.

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Clare Kelliher BSc MA PhD
Dr Clare Kelliher is Reader in Strategic Human Resource Management at Cranfield School of Management.  She specialises in the fields of employee relations, people management and change.  Clare holds a PhD in Organisational Behaviour from London Business School.  Her research interests centre on the organisation of work and the management of the employment relationship in the context of organisational change.   She is a member of the Change Management Consortium research team based at Cass Business School, City University and as part of this project has recently been involved in examining the implementation of change in large public and private sector organisations.  She has a long standing interest in flexible working and currently directs a major project concerned with examining the impact of flexible working on performance, in conjunction with the charity Working Families and sponsored by seven companies.  Clare is the author of many published papers and book chapters and regularly presents at national and international conferences.  She has considerable experience running management programmes and advising organisations both in the UK and overseas.