Dr Kevin Flinn is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool Business School.
In 2019, following twenty years as a leadership and organisational development practitioner in the Financial Services, Management Consultancy and Higher Education sectors, Kevin moved into a full-time academic role at the University of Hertfordshire. In 2021, Kevin returned home to Liverpool to take up the role of Senior Lecturer in Executive Education at LJMU. Kevin's teaching, research and community interests unsurprisingly revolve around leadership and OD with a special (and specialist) focus on complexity and group analytic perspectives on management, organisation, change, group process and citizenship.
Kevin is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. A second edition of his first book, Leadership Development in Practice: A Complexity Approach, was published by Routledge in October 2023. His forthcoming second book, Organisational Development in Practice: A Complexity Approach, is due for publication in 2025.
Chapters
Flinn K. 2023. A complexity approach to leading in education: lessons from group analysis Handbook on Leadership in Education :129-142 Edward Elgar Publishing 9781800880412 DOI Publisher Url
Flinn K. 2022. A Group Analytic Approach to Executive Education: Lesson from the larger group Chauhan K, Crewe E, Mowles C. Complexity and Leadership :1-243 Routledge 9780367551599 DOI Publisher Url
Flinn K. 2022. A group analytic approach to executive education Complexity and Leadership :165-190 Routledge DOI Publisher Url
Books (authored)
Flinn K. 2023. Leadership Development in Practice A Complexity Approach Taylor & Francis 9781000982350
Flinn K, Mowles C, Staff LFFHEGB. 2014. A Complexity Approach to Leadership Development Developing Practical Judgement 9781906627591
Flinn K. Leadership Development in Practice Routledge DOI Publisher Url