Dr Dorota Bourne works as the Associate Professor of Coaching and Change Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading. She holds a PhD in Management, fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming Master qualifications. She is currently an Academic Programme Director for the Apprenticeship Programmes at Henley and was also a Director of the Henley Coaching Centre.

Dr Bourne’s expertise lies in coaching and change management programmes with a focus on leadership development. She favours mixed methods and interdisciplinary approach to research but specialises in business applications of Personal Construct Psychology and the Repertory Grid Technique. In her past projects she worked with various clients ranging from multinational corporations, such as General Motors, to public sector institutions such as the Chinese aerospace industry. Most of her past work dealt with large-scale organisational change and knowledge transfer processes. After a decade of working on organisational issues she gradually moved toward individual oriented interventions and focused on leadership development work and executive education. These themes now dominate her pedagogical as well as research efforts. Her most recent writings explore personal change and the development of leaders beyond their active career stage and draw on the concepts of maturation and eldership in organisations. Her pedagogical and educational work is devoted to the new suite of apprenticeship programmes for adult students and executive education at Henley Business School. She played an instrumental role in the development and the launch of the Apprenticeship Academy at Henley and continues to expand the programme in her capacity as an academic director.