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Samantha Rockey

Associate Fellow


Saïd Business School
University of Oxford
Park End Street
Oxford
OX1 1HP

Profile

Samantha is an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and is a tutor and faculty on the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme – one of the leading open leadership development programmes in the world.

Samantha also co-programme directs the Executive Education programme for the Young President’s Organisation. 

She is the co-founder and director of London-based leadership and organisational development consultancy, Thompson Harrison and works with leading companies across sectors and geographies.   

Samantha has spent most of her career in the arena of Leadership and Organisational development specifically focusing on organisations going through large-scale transformation. Until late 2016, she was the Global Head of Leadership Development for the FTSE top 10 company SABMiller, now part of ABINBEV.

Samantha’s work on leadership development has won awards and has been written up in a number of books and publications. She is a frequent speaker on the topic of designing human-shaped organisations and is particularly interested in the interface between the forces of global connectivity, digital transformation and positive social impact and what this means for leadership. She is co-author with Professor Robin Dunbar (‘the Dunbar number’) and Tracey Camilleri, of ’The Social Brain: The Psychology of Successful Groups’ - a Penguin Random House publication. The book 'The Social Brain' combines scientific research, interviews with people leading in diverse environments, and case studies.

Samantha has been on the Advisory Board for the Baobab Network – a start-up business that connects early-stage businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa with talent and investors from around the world as well as Imperial College Business School Global Online MBA programme.

Samantha has a Master of Science in Development Planning and a Masters of Management in Human Resources.

Teaching

At Saïd Business School she is a tutor on the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme, an executive programme and programme directs the Mars Economics of Mutuality – Putting Purpose into Practice programme, a custom programme.

Social Media

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