Steve Reeve

Steve has been at the forefront of action research in the field of Change. Active in high pressure change and transformation environments, he leads academic consultancy and development teams in large high profile organisations. His action research approach integrates the worlds of published academic research; research led action processes; and commercial and public practice, which allows him to generate effective solutions at client organisations. His policy interest in public/private activity was forged in the emergent period of public private partnership where he conducted research on leadership in this newly evolving business form, in collaboration with Government and KPMG. Still fascinated by the tacit and overt politics behind such practice, Steve is a regular contributor of change-in-action experience and critical academic evaluation to the International Research Society for Public Management. Author of a significant impact case study rated at 4* in the 2014 REF, he continues to collaborate with organisations where interventions have taken place to generate case based learning.

Steve is an active supervisor and currently supervises 3 PGR students. He has supervised 10 students to completion and provides mentoring support to supervisory staff based on a wealth of experience as a School Director of Postgraduate Studies; Social Sciences Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies, and Postgraduate Student Research Coordinator. He has extensive experience as Examiner and Chair at viva examiination stage. Although specifically interested in the field of Change Management and Leadership, Steve is keen to collaborate with other supervisors on areas including partnership more generally defined; arts-commerce-public arena; and the politics of governance and assurance.

A long term advocate of business school academia engaging directly with organisations in the wider economy, Steve has championed research based change interventions in client organisations. He has led enterprise engagement with organisations including London Probation, the Ministry of Defence, Barclays, the Local Government Staff Commission, and Network Rail. He is experienced in responding to ITT, commercial bidding, change programme development, change intervention consultancy and the provision of bespoke executive education. With over 30 years of teaching and educational experience, Steve is a Chartered Association of Business Schools Certified Management & Business Educator.