Jean Anne Stewart

Jean-Anne is the Programme Director for the MA Leadership programme starting in 2015, and also responsible for corporate MBA qualification programmes, for a wide variety of international clients. She develops and delivers modules, specialising in facilitation, action learning and leadership development. Jean-Anne has led several European and UK research projects, particularly focused on facilitation, action learning, SME & third sector leadership and leadership development & evaluation. Prior to joining Henley, Jean-Anne worked at British Airways developing their internal facilitation, leadership, project management and change capability programme.

Jean-Anne is the Chair of the British Academy of Management Leadership & Leadership Development SIG and was recently elected to the BAM Council.

She is on the editorial board for the Action Learning: Research and Practice journal. She is currently researching leadership and leadership development across generations, e.g. Generation Y.

Programme Director Corporate MBA Programmes

Programme Director MA Leadership

Papers:

Stewart, J.A (2010) "Action Learning and Virtual Action Learning for Leadership Development", Developing Leaders, Issue 1.

Stewart, J.-A. (2009) Evaluation of an action learning programme for leadership development of SME leaders in the UK. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 6 (2). pp. 131-148. ISSN 1476-7341

Stewart, J.A, (2009) "The Art of Facilitation", Employee Engagement Today, Vol 2.2, Spring

Stewart, J.-A., Day, M., Print, C. and Favato, G. (2009) Compliance in the supply chain: implications of Sarbanes-Oxley for UK businesses. The IUP Journal of Supply Chain Management, 6 (1). pp. 7-19. ISSN 0972-9267

Stewart, J.-A. (2006) High-performing (and threshold) competencies for group facilitators. Journal of Change Management, 6 (4). pp. 417-440. ISSN 1479-1811

Stewart, J.-A. and Alexander, G. G. (2006) Virtual action learning: experiences from a study of an SME e-learning programme. Action Learning: Research and Practice , 3 (2). pp. 141-159. ISSN 1476-7341

Books:

Stewart, J.-A. and Dickenson, M. (2012) Virtual action learning. In: Pedler, M. (ed.) Action Learning in Practice. 4th edition. Gower, Aldershot. ISBN 9781409418412 (In Press)

Thurloway, L. and Stewart, J.-A. (2010) Generation Y and Z: who are they? Should we manage them differently? In: Ross, D. (ed.) Fast track to success: managing people and performance. Pearson education, UK. ISBN 9780273732884

Stewart, J.-A. (2009) Making it happen - the facilitation bit. In: McKean, D. (ed.) Strategy: fast track to success. Pearson Education Limited, Harlow, p. 154. ISBN 9780273719908

Birchall, D., Stewart, J.-A. and Pedler, M. (2007) Improving the facilitation of organisational knowledge creation. In: Kazi, A.S., Wohlfart, L. and Wolf, P. (eds.) Hands on knowledge cocreation and sharing: practical methods and techniques. Knowledge Board, Stuttgart, pp. 311-326. ISBN 97895163500