Keith Grint

Keith Grint is Professor of Public Leadership at Warwick University. He has held Chairs at Cranfield University and Lancaster University and was Director of the Lancaster Leadership Centre.

Keith spent 12 years at Oxford University where he was Director of Research at the Saïd Business School and Fellow in Organisational Behaviour, Templeton College. He remains an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School and of Green Templeton College. Keith is a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences. He is also a Visiting Research Professor at Lancaster University, a Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust, a Fellow of the Leadership Trust and a Visiting Professor at University College Suffolk, and The Leiden University Leadership Centre, The Hague.

Keith spent 10 years in industry before switching to an academic career and has been variously employed as an agricultural labourer, a factory worker, an industrial cleaner, a removals worker, a freezer operative, a swimming pool attendant, a postman, a clerical worker and a part-time karate teacher.

Keith is a founding co-editor of the journal Leadership published by Sage and founding co-organiser of the International Conference in Researching Leadership.