Highly sought after scholar, management consultant, co-creator of transformative learning and former Assistant Dean.

Catriona's interests lie primarily at the intersection of strategy and organisation, aiming to extend emerging policy debates and scholarship on significant societal and organisational mega-trends and contemporary developments (in particular temporariness, plurality, complexity and uncertainty). Advocating a phenomenon-based, engaged scholarship philosophy, she also has a particular interest in the enactment of systemic, transformative and sustainable change. Conceptually, her work is governed by Aristotelian notions of phronesis (practical wisdom), pragmatist sociological and critical management perspectives, together with processual and practice-based approaches to knowledge, collaborative action and decision making.

An award-winning scholar, her research has been published in a variety of top tier journals, including Human Relations, Human Resource Management and the International Journal of Project Management. She sits on the Editorial Boards of European Management Review, The International Journal of Project Management, Projects, Leadership & Society, and Engaged Management Review.

She is an active member of the Responsible Research in Business and Management network (RRBM), the University of Cambridge, Judge Business School Organization Theory Research Group (OTREG), the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) and the Strategic Management Society (SMS). She also sits on the UN PRME Sustainability Mindset Working Group and is a Fellow of the Centre for Evidence Based Management. Furthermore, she was recently elected to the Council of the Irish Academy of Management (IAM), the leading learned association for the advancement of research, knowledge and education in the field of organization and management studies in Ireland.

Prior to joining academia, Catriona gained over a decade of significant senior management experience across a variety of sectors with her diverse achievements including the leadership of extensive organisational change, large scale operational efficiency and complex regulatory and IT development programmes. Since joining the KBS, Catriona has developed several cutting edge educational programmes and held a number of senior leadership positions including Assistant Dean of Postgraduate Studies. Her academic leadership and curriculum development excellence are currently engaged as Director of Academic Studies of the inaugural Doctor of Business Administration programme in the KBS (Sustainability, Leadership and Systemic Transformation). She is also an elected member of the UL Academic Council.