Keith Kinsella has been studying the practice of leadership in a variety of roles as engineer, manager, HR specialist, consultant, change facilitator/coach, and researcher - with clients ranging from the BBC to individual students studying the MA in Leadership at Exeter Business School.

In contrast to the dominant focus on leadership as being about individual behaviour, he has been exploring the usefulness of a more dynamic and systemic perspective, in which leadership is viewed [and developed] as something that emerges in particular situations and times i.e. is more a temporary product of a complex and varied system of influences alive in a local context, than what one person does to/with others.

He continues to think and write about developing this new way of appreciating and engaging in leadership. He was awarded his PhD from Bath University in 2012 and has been an Associate of the Taos Institute since 2015.