Global Majority Leadership The Experience and Practice

This book explores the challenges that individuals of African, Caribbean, Asian and South-East Asian descent (Global Majority leaders) living in the UK may face in attaining, practising, and experiencing leadership within organisations. By drawing firstly on critical race theory, the author shines a light on the underlying contextual and power structures of societies like the UK, in which these individuals' leadership and identity construction is shaped, experienced, and practised. Secondly, the author uses a qualitative research strategy to uncover the dominant genres and occluded themes hidden within the narratives of Global Majority leaders as they illuminate the fine-grained detail of their lived experience with and in leadership.

With these two lenses, the book allows us to understand and theorise how, through the shaping and influencing of meaning, Global Majority leaders continue to develop and practice leadership, which has implications for theory, policy and practice.

Contributing to critical leadership and organisational studies, as well as the UN Sustainable Goals that relate to reducing inequality, decent work and economic growth, and promoting inclusive and accountable institutions, this book is a valuable resource that can influence leadership practice, diversity, equality and inclusion strategies within contested spaces.

Introduction: The Motherland’s Postcolonial Constraint.- The Cold and Frozen Side of Organisations.- In the Shadowland of Organisations.- The Hard Knocks of Leadership.- Rootlessness and Unbelonging.- Emancipatory Leadership.- Organisational Narratives – 'Theorising from a Location of Pain and Struggle'.- The Epilogue.- Contribution to Leadership, Organisation, and Management studies.

Lace Jackson is an early career researcher with substantial experience in practice. Her theoretical work is underpinned by a strong commitment to the sphere of practice and informed by extensive experience and consulting in public and private organisations. She leads a Clinical Institute housing a research faculty where she has applied learning from her PhD into the real-world context.