Brigid Carroll

Brigid Jan Carroll is a New Zealand management academic, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in leadership identity and practice, organisational theory and qualitative research methods.

Carroll completed a PhD titled Mapping the Professional Who Manages: Identity, Narrative and Spatiality at the University of Auckland.^[1] Carroll then joined the faculty of the Department of Management and International Business at the University of Auckland, rising to full professor and giving her inaugural lecture in 2021.^[2] She holds the Fletcher Building Employee Educational Fund Chair in Leadership, and is the third person to do so, after Brad Jackson and Kevin Low.^[3][2][4][5]

Carroll is interested in leadership, and has researched different leadership practices and mindsets, as well as how people in leadership can support and encourage leadership around them, creating a leadership team. She also teaches organisational theory and qualitative research methods, and was part of a research collaboration with Professor Kerr Inkson around how compliance issues were affecting boards of directors in New Zealand.^[5][6][7] She said, "Ironically we might be in a world of too many leaders and not enough leadership. Research has already started to explore ‘anti-leadering’ and ‘leaderlessness’ as proactive strategies to create more leadership. Therefore we need to move beyond feeling like a leader all or even most of the time. There is a far larger repertoire possible."^[2]

Carroll is an associate editor on the journal Leadership, and has published three co-edited books.^[8][9] She has co-convened at the European Group of Organization Studies, and was invited to teach PhD courses at the Copenhagen Business School.^[9] In 2014 and 2020 she was awarded the University of Auckland Business School Research Excellence Award, and received a teaching award in 2019.^[10][9]

Scholia has a profile for Brigid Carroll (Q54190509).

• Brigid Carroll; Lester Levy; David Richmond (November 2008). "Leadership as Practice: Challenging the Competency Paradigm". Leadership. 4 (4): 363–379. doi:10.1177/1742715008095186. ISSN 1742-7150. Wikidata Q58155358.
• Brigid Carroll; Lester Levy (16 April 2010). "Leadership Development as Identity Construction". Management Communication Quarterly. 24 (2): 211–231. doi:10.1177/0893318909358725. ISSN 0893-3189. Wikidata Q58155346.
• Barbara Simpson; Brigid Carroll (January 2008). "Re-viewing `Role' in Processes of Identity Construction". Organization. 15 (1): 29–50. doi:10.1177/1350508407084484. ISSN 1350-5084. Wikidata Q58155362.
• Brigid Carroll; Lester Levy (January 2008). "Defaulting to Management: Leadership Defined By What It Is Not". Organization. 15 (1): 75–96. doi:10.1177/1350508407084486. ISSN 1350-5084. Wikidata Q58155355.
• Helen Nicholson; Brigid Carroll (14 February 2013). "Identity undoing and power relations in leadership development". Human Relations. 66 (9): 1225–1248. doi:10.1177/0018726712469548. ISSN 0018-7267. Wikidata Q57984700.
• Fiona Kennedy; Brigid Carroll; Joline Francoeur (6 December 2012). "Mindset not skill set: Evaluating in new paradigms of leadership development". Advances in Developing Human Resources. 15 (1): 10–26. doi:10.1177/1523422312466835. ISSN 1523-4223. Wikidata Q58155329.

• Brigid Carroll talking about leadership at executive level, New Zealand Leadership Institute, 26 August 2016, via YouTube