Stephen P. Robbins is Professor Emeritus of Management at San Diego State University and the world’s best-selling textbook author in the areas of both management and organisational behaviour. His books are used at more than a thousand US colleges and universities; have been translated into 19 languages; and have adapted editions for Canada, Australia, South Africa, India and the Middle East. Dr Robbins is also the author of the best-selling books The Truth about Managing People (4th edn, Pearson, 2014) and Decide & Conquer (2nd edn, Pearson, 2015).

In his ‘other life’, Stephen has been an active participant in masters’ track competitions. After turning 50 in 1993, he won 18 national championships and 12 world titles, and set numerous US and world age-group records at 60, 100, 200 and 400 metres. In 2005, Stephen was elected into the USA Masters’ Track and Field Hall of Fame.

Timothy A. Judge is currently the Joseph A. Alutto Chair in Leadership Effectiveness at the Department of Management and Human Resources, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. He has held academic positions at the University of Notre Dame, University of Florida, University of Iowa, Cornell University, Charles University in the Czech Republic, Comenius University in Slovakia and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr Judge’s primary research interests are in (1) personality, moods and emotions; (2) job attitudes; (3) leadership and influence behaviours; and (4) careers (person–organisation fit, career success). Timothy has published more than 154 articles on these and other major topics in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal and the Journal of Applied Psychology. He is a fellow of several organisations, including the American Psychological Association and the Academy of Management. Among the many professional acknowledgements of his work, Timothy was awarded the Academy of Management Human Resources Division’s Scholarly Achievement Award in 2014. Timothy is a co-author of Essentials of Organizational Behavior (14th edn), with Stephen P. Robbins, and Staffing Organizations (8th edn), with Herbert G. Heneman III. He is married and has three children.

James Hunt is an honorary Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He served as Director of the MBA Program between 2011 and 2019, and as Assistant Director of Postgraduate Programs from 2012 to 2013. James has regularly designed and delivered courses on leadership, organisational behaviour and organisational change over his 32-year university career. He has also delivered seminars to private- and public-sector organisations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Newcastle, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, London, Honolulu and Manama (Bahrain).

James was educated at Sydney University and at the University of Kent in the UK. In the mid 1990s, he spent time at the Sydney Graduate School of Police Management in Manly, where he taught leadership, applied command management and strategic command management to senior members of the Australian Federal Police and various state police organisations.

James’s primary area of research is the personality determinants of leadership style. He is the author of more than 60 published journal articles, book chapters and books, and is the recipient of nine awards for excellence in teaching at the University of Newcastle.

Dr Nadine Campbell is the Academic Program Advisor at Western Sydney University in the School of Business. Nadine takes a very international focus on education, having lived in four countries—Jamaica, Canada, the United States and Australia. Her passion for organisational behaviour began over 35 years ago while doing her undergraduate degree at the University of California Berkeley. Since then, Nadine has taught in the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and throughout Europe. She has authored over 100 publications, including journal articles, books, book chapters, and opinion pieces on managerialism. She remains an active researcher in the areas of organisational performance and culture.

Hamza Khan is a top-ranked instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University, a visiting scholar at Trent University, and played a vital role in developing Canada’s first social media graduate certificate program at Seneca College. He is the best-selling author of The Burnout Gamble and Leadership, Reinvented, an award-winning entrepreneur, and a world-renowned keynote speaker whose TEDx talk ‘Stop Managing, Start Leading’ has been viewed over two million times. He challenges audiences and organisations to rehumanise their workplaces to achieve inclusive and sustainable growth. Hamza is a respected thought leader with actionable insights featured by the likes of Inc., VICE and Business Insider. The world’s leading organisations trust him to enhance modern leadership, inspire purposeful productivity, nurture lasting resilience and navigate constant change. Hamza has spoken on various global stages, from the World Youth Forum to TEDx, and works with clients such as Microsoft, PepsiCo, LinkedIn, Deloitte, Salesforce, TikTok, and hundreds of colleges and universities. Through his writing, speaking, teaching and executive coaching, Hamza empowers people to thrive in the future of work.

Cathy Ying Xu is a Lecturer in Management at the Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle, Australia. She has previously held academic positions at the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University and the University of Technology Sydney. At the Newcastle Business School, Dr Xu teaches MBA courses on organisational behaviour, leadership, and human resource management. Her current research interests include employee voice and participation, strategic and sustainable human resource management, and the social, career and economic impacts of chronic illness on workers.

Cathy’s research has been published by top-tier book publishers and in journals such as Work, Employment and Society, the International Journal of Human Resource Management and the Journal of Industrial Relations.