- Professor of Organisational Culture & Leadership, Monash University
As Professor of Organisational Culture and Leadership at Monash Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Health and Social Care Unit, I work with senior healthcare teams (executives and professionals) in transformative, cultural change. My work focuses on the role of relations, emotion and power in mobilising change.
I have a thriving consultancy practice (Fischer Consults) as an executive leadership coach and organisational consultant in the UK and Australia. I served as business school professor at University of Oxford, King's College London, and the University of Melbourne, and was previously a clinical director and lead consultant psychotherapist in the UK National Health Service. I worked at major teaching hospitals in Manchester, Liverpool and London, and held national roles in whole-systems (cross-sector) collaboration.
I hold a PhD in organisational culture and leadership from Imperial College London, University of London. I am an accredited group analyst and psychotherapist, and ICF executive coach.
• Professional Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation
• Founding Fellow, Institute of Coaching at Harvard-McLean
• Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute
• Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine
• Fellow, Higher Education Authority
• Life Member, Oxford University Anthropological Society
Experience
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2016–presentProfessor, Associate Dean, Director Centre for Sustainable HRM & Wellbeing, ACU
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2014–presentVisiting Professor, University of Oxford
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2014–2017Associate Professor & Deputy Director Centre for Workplace Leadership, University of Melbourne
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1999–2014Clinical Director & Consultant Psychotherapist, St Thomas' London | South London & Maudsley | Manchester University Hospitals
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2012–2014Associate Professor & Senior Fellow, University of Oxford
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2008–2012Senior Research Fellow, King's College London
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2009–2012Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford
Education
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2008Imperial College London, University of London, PhD
Professional Memberships
- The Royal Society of Medicine
- Institute of Group Analysis, London
- Royal Anthropological Institute
- Oxford University Anthropological Society
- International Coaching Federation
- Institute of Coaching, McLean Harvard Medical School
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