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Newton, Rebecca

Dr Rebecca Newton  

Department

Position held

Department of Management

Visiting Fellow

 

Non LSE positions held

Duke Corporate Education

GLRN faculty member

 

Journal of Change Management

Member of Editorial Board

 

Newton Taylor Ltd

Director and Business Psychologist

 

Experience keywords:

change management; change; executive coaching; interpersonal relations; leadership development; leadership; mergers; negotiations; organisational communication; organisational culture; teams

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Rebecca Newton's research interests are in the leadership of change in organisations, including co-leadership; the impact of change leadership on employees' work-based identity; resistance; and how leaders facilitate aligned global corporate culture. She joined the Department of Management as a Visiting Fellow in 2008, where she lectures in Leadership and Professional Development. Prior to this she was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and in the Institute of Social Psychology at LSE.

Since 1999, Rebecca has been a coach, advisor and educator to multinationals, public organisations and PSFs in leadership development, change management and culture transformation. She has advised and trained hundreds of business leaders and teams from organisations such as Ericsson, Microsoft, London Crossrail, Bank of America Corporation, BG Group, Arcelor Mittal, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Center for Leadership Development (Dubai) and many professional services firms. Rebecca is a member of the Duke Corporate Education's Global Learning Resource Network, a Registered Psychologist with the NSW Psychologists’ Registration Board of Australia and a member of the Journal of Change Management Editorial Board.

Rebecca has a PhD in Psychology (Organisational Change) and MSc with distinction in Social and Organisational Psychology from LSE, and a BA from the University of Sydney.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Banking; Consultancy; Energy; Financial Services; Healthcare; Law; Public Administration; Telecommunications

Countries and regions to which research relates:

All

Media experience:

Radio; TV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7712

LSE email:

r.l.newton@lse.ac.uk

Alt phone number:

+44 (0)20 8877 2613

Publications

2012

Newton, Rebecca (2012) Perceptions and development of ethical change leadership In: By, Rune Todnem and Burnes, Bernard, (eds.) Organisational Change, Leadership and Ethics: Leading Organizations Towards Sustainability. Understanding organizational change. Routledge, London, UK, 35-54. ISBN 9780415592444

2009

van Dijk (Newton), Rebecca and van Dick, Rolf (2009) Navigating organizational change: change leaders, employee resistance and work-based identities Journal of Change Management, 9 (2). 143-163. ISSN 1469-7017

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