Core Team

Amy Stabler

I am a Senior Lecturer in Leadership Development and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy at Newcastle University Business School where I teach and research senior leadership practice development and pedagogy. I hold an MSc Integrative Psychotherapy and a Doctorate in Professional Studies, which inform my approach to these topics.   

My career spans 28 years’ experience in organisational learning strategy, leadership, management and team development and creating coaching cultures for UK and global organisations such as Kraft Foods plc and Standard Chartered Bank. Prior to becoming an academic in 2016, I was employed for eight years at South Tees NHS Foundation Trust co-creating and delivering the learning and development strategy for 8,000 staff. Drawing on critical reflexivity, I use evaluation of those learning experiences in the Higher Education (HE) context to support curriculum design, development, delivery, and to enhance my scholarship of teaching and learning. 

I am a Co-I on this project with specific responsibilities for delivery of the evaluation strand using Theory of Change, and supporting colleagues with the Participatory Action Research approach and Leadership Development interventions.  However, I see all our work strands as feeding into a complex and dynamic on-going process.  In support of this, I bring my team development interest and skills to the collective leadership of the project. I believe that the cultural development can only occur through creating psychological safety for colleagues and appreciative inquiry about their current leadership practice, working with empathy alongside them to bring about change.   

Outside work, you will mostly find me outdoors in the Yorkshire Dales or Scottish Highlands, riding a road bike or on foot.  I like to see the big picture and tuning into my body and emotions through these activities helps me stay in touch with that, when I’m back at work.