Ola Gwozdz

Profile

Thesis supervisors

• Professor Stephen Linstead
• Professor Federica Angeli

Thesis Title

We don’t need another hero'; exploring an emergent leadership identity in the context of Digital and AI, Inclusivity and Sustainability.

Biography

Biography

Ola is a data philosopher, an award-winning researcher and IoT innovation specialist with over a decade of experience in technology adoption in major projects (Olympics, CrossRail, Tideway, HS2). She has an MSc in Innovation, Leadership and Management, and in her current doctoral research she is investigating not one but three big topics - Digital, Inclusivity and Sustainability. Specifically focussing on their relationship and synergies that can be established.

This very unique and unparalleled research spans across multiple social discourses and 17 scientific disciplines. Spanning across multiple disciplines and organisational and leadership theories, this research offers a deep dive into the origins of some of the biggest challenges that organisations face around diversity, sustainability and digitisation. Ola's research aims to gain not only a greater understanding of our human complexities but how they translate into our language, identity and practice through the lenses of leadership.

Ola has partnered with a global, engineering company- Arup to test her thesis in a collaborative program designed to investigate, measure and model new ways of human innovation in the context of diversity, sustainability, and digital. She is co-founder of the non-profit Blueprint, which works to build and redesign spaces to help and inspire those in need on a global (e.g. Cape Town) and local scale. Ola has also graduated from the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford and the Los Angeles Music Academy where she studied jazz vocals. Outside of her work-life, Ola is a singer, songwriter and a producer and has performed across the world.

Research

Research Topic

Investigating leadership 'identity crisis' in the context of Digital, Inclusivity and Sustainability

Research interests

• Organisational and Leadership Theories
• Systems Innovation and Systemic Biomimicry
• Responsible Innovation
• Feminist Theory
• Relational Theory

Publications

Website

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