Richard Badham

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Dr Richard J Badham is currently an Honorary Professor of Leadership at the University of Sydney and  of Sydney and University of Technology Sydney, with a background in political and social theory and extensive experience as a consultant and researcher on leadership, change and innovation in industry and government. His recent appointment was as Director of the Executive Leadership in Major Projects Program in the University of Sydney John Grill Institute (2021-22) and was previously a Professor of Management in the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (2004-2021).

He is the co-author of the most widely cited European book on leadership, politics and change: Power, Politics and Organizational Change: Winning the Turf Game (Sage, London 2020), the newly available internationally acclaimed text on Ironies of Organizational Change: An Introduction to Change Management and Organizational Theory (Edward Elgar, 2023) and the only Harvard Business Review article on leadership and transformation by an Australian author Fire, Snowball, Mask and Movie: How Leaders Ignite and Sustain Change (2011).

Apart from his previous position as a Professor at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (FR Ranking 2017:  No.1 in Australia, No.49 globally), he has held positions as a Senior Von Humboldt Fellow at the Technical University Berlin, was the Foundation BHP Professorship of Management in the Institute for Steel Processing and Products, Wollongong University, and was the David Goldmann Visiting Professorship at Newcastle University (UK) and a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Cultural Change at Yale University. He has worked as a consultant and delivered executive programs to Ford, James Hardies, Hoover, Datacom and the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse Centre, as well as the European Commission, the West German Government, the Brunei government and numerous state and federal government agencies in Australia.

He has been Associate Dean (Research) for the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Director of the Centre for Managing Change and Foundation BHP Professor in Management at Wollongong University, and has held International Editorial Board positions on a number of leading research journals, and is currently on the editorial boards of Leadership, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and Organizational Aesthetics. He was responsible for developing and presenting the Strategic Change in Hybrid Organizations program for the Australian Packaging Covenant Organization, Leading Transformation in Higher Education program for the Brunei Ministry for Education and the Leading Change in Social Enterprise program for Chris O’Brien Lifehouse at RPA, and most recently the Macquarie/Coursera online Global MBA program on Leading Transformations: Manage Change (online MBA program ranked as No.1 in Australia, No.6 globally). He is the author of over 100 books and articles on leadership, power, change and innovation, as well as the Routledge Classics in Social Theory monograph Theories of Industrial Society (2016, 1986).

• 2022 - Leading Major Projects BHP-Billiton
• 2019-21 - Experience Change, Godolphin
• 2016-21 - Strategic Change in Hybrid Organizations, Australian Packaging Covenant Organization
• 2001-21 - Leading Change & Innovation, MGSM MBA & Global MBA Online
• 2019 - Mindful Leadership, Datacom Sydney
• 2015-19 - Leading Change Program, Datacom (Sydney, NZ, Malaysia)
• 2011-14 -Leading Change in Social Enterprise, Chris O'Brien Lifehouse at RPA
• 2011 - Leading Change, Australian Pharmaceutical Association
• 2010-14 - Leading Transformation in Higher Education, Brunei Ministry for Education; University of Brunei Darussalam; University of Technology Brunei)

• Badham, R. (2023). Ironies of Organizational Change: An Introduction to Change Management and Organizational Theory. London: Edward Elgar.
• Badham, R. (with E.King et.al.), (2023). Navigating team resilience: A video observation of an elite yacht racing crew. Applied Psychology.
• Badham, R. and King, E., (2021). Mindfulness at Work: A Critical Re-view. Organization, 28, 4: 531-554.
• Badham, R., (2021). James March and the Poetry of Leadership, Journal of Management History, 28 (1): 46-65.
• Badham R., (2020). Academic Adviser to We are Unity. The Re-Invention of HR:2020 Progressive People & Culture Report.
• Buchanan, D., & Badham, R., (2020). Power, politics, and organizational change. Los Angeles; London: SAGE Publications. Third Edition.
• Badham, R., Bridgman, R. and Cummings, S., (2020). The organization-as-iceberg as a counter-metaphor. In Maclean, M., Clegg. S., Suddaby, R. and Harvey, C. (Eds.); Historical Organization Studies: Theory and Application (pp.57-77), London and New York: Routledge.
• King, E. & Badham, R., (2020). The Wheel of Mindfulness: a Generative Framework for Second-Generation Mindful Leadership. Mindfulness, 11, 1, 166-176.
• Badham, R. & Santiago, B. (2019-). Leading Transformation: Manage Change. Coursera/Macquarie University online Program.
• Cancado, V. and Badham, R., (2019). Discutindo o gerenciamento para a mudança: o framework 5M. Organizações & Sociedade.
• King, E. & Badham, R., (2019). Leadership in uncertainty: The mindfulness solution. Organizational Dynamics, 48, 4: 1-15.
• Badham, R. and Hafermalz, E., (2019). Using Parody in Transforming a Health Care Organization in Australia. in Antonacopoulou, E. and Taylor, S. (eds.), Sensuous Learning for Practical Judgment in Professional Practice: Volume 2: Arts-based Interventions. London: Palgrave.
• Badham, R., & Claydon, R., (2018). The Ironic Manager. ABC Best Practice Radio (17 Jun).
• Badham, R. (2017). Reflections on the paradoxes of modernity: A conversation with James March. In Wendy K. Smith, Marianne W. Lewis, Paula Jarzabkowski, Ann Langley (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of organizational paradox (pp. 1-24). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Santiago, B. & Badham, R., (2017). Donors without Borders: Report. Macquarie University/Australian Lions, Sydney & Donors without Borders Animated Video. Sydney.
• Rhodes, C., & Badham, R. (2018). Ethical Irony and the Relational Leader: Grappling with the Infinity of Ethics and the Finitude of Practice. Business Ethics Quarterly, 28, 1: 71-98.
• Badham, R. & Rhodes, C., (2018). Misleading Ethics: Towards a Bearable Lightness of Being. LSE Business Review.
• Carter, W. Richard, Nesbit, P., Badham, R., Parker, S., & Sung, L. (2018). The effects of employee engagement and self-efficacy on job performance: a longitudinal field study. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 29 (17), 2483-2502.
• Rhodes, C., & Badham, R. (2018). Ethical irony and the relational leader: grappling with the infinity of ethics and the finitude of practice. Business Ethics Quarterly, 28 (1), 71-98.
• Rawolle, M., Wallis, M., Badham, R., & Kehr, H. (2016). No fit, no fun: The effect of motive incongruence on job burnout and the mediating role of intrinsic motivation. Personality and Individual Differences, 89, 65-68.
• Badham, R., Carter, W., Matula, L., Parker, S., & Nesbit, P. (2016). Beyond Hope and Fear: The Effects of Organizational Theatre on Empowerment and Control. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 52 (1), 124-151.