Gervase Bushe

Professor of Leadership and Organization Development at the Beedie School of Business at SFU

Gervase (pronounced Jervis) Bushe is the Professor of Leadership and Organization Development at the Beedie School of Business at SFU  His career spans four decades of transforming organizational structures, cultures and processes away from command and control toward more collaborative work systems.  He is an award winning author of over 100 papers and four books on organizational change, leadership, teams and teamwork. Gervase has consulted to blue chip corporations and start-ups, public sector and business corporations, in a variety of sectors, using highly collaborative process of inquiry to create transformational change. His recent book, Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change, co-edited with Robert Marshak (2015) builds on his groundbreaking research into processes of generative leadership and change, and has garnered international acclaim. His latest book, The Dynamics of Generative Change (2020), offers a practical alternative to traditional planned change, better aligned with the needs for agility and engagement in today’s organizations.  Since 2016 HR Magazine in the UK has identified him as one of the 30 most influential HR Thinkers. In September 2019 he was ranked 12th. A chapter on his life and work appears in the Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers.