Ursula Glunk is Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at the School of Business and Economics of Maastricht University (see www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/sbe). In this function, she works as a leadership development coordinator, researcher, lecturer, trainer, facilitator, and personal coach. Next to her work at Maastricht University, she also belongs to the training faculty of CTI, a large international coach-training institute (see: http://www.thecoaches.com/coach-training/).
Fields of expertise: leadership development, team dynamics, creating from polarities.
Ursula holds an MSc in Psychology from Mannheim University (Germany), a PhD in Organization Studies from Tilburg University (The Netherlands), and is a Certified Professional Co-active Coach (CPCC). She has more than fifteen years of teaching and research experience in the field of Organizational Behaviour. From 2004 to 2007 she served as programme director of the Master of Science Programme in International Business at Maastricht University. From 2005 to 2006 she was programme director of a Management Development Programme for non-academic staff of Maastricht University. Together with colleagues, she introduced a Personal Development Trajectory in a Master of Science programme and a Leadership Development Trajectory in an executive MBA programme. As a leadership development expert, facilitator and coach, she has been working with professional teams and executives from large multinational corporations, United Nations organizations, NGOs, educational institutions, and public organizations.
Current activities: Developing, coordinating and teaching courses for International Business students (Management of Organizations, Communications and Leadership Skills); supervising Master and PhD theses; conducting research on interface dynamics and leadership paradoxes faced by top and middle managers; providing leadership development trainings for executives; coaching students, executives and professional teams; facilitating group dialogue (peer learning, world café, open space); coordinating the MBA Leadership Development Trajectory; serving in various university commissions; writing papers on the future of Management Education and implementing these ideas; co-leading training workshops for coaches in the UK, France, Germany, and the Netherlands based on principles of co-activity.
