BIOGRAPHY
Overview
Prof Tony Wall drives sustainable thriving with colleagues in Australia, France, New Zealand, Sweden, Vietnam and the US. He has a background in coaching and appreciative research approaches for organisational development which have been judged as ‘world leading’ (REF, 2021). Alongside his professorship at Liverpool Business School, he holds a visiting professorship at Stockholm University, and is ranked #1 globally in “management learning” and “management development” (Google Scholar, non-retired). He has published 200+ works including articles in quartile 1 journals such as Nature Communications, UK Parliamentary evidence, as well as global policy reports which have been translated into 20 languages. He has successfully supervised over 25 doctoral studies. His two-decades of impactful teaching and academic leadership has attracted prestigious recognition through The Advance-HE National Teaching Fellowship and multiple Santander International Research Excellence Awards.
Background
After winning competitive scholarships to study in Toronto, Warwick Business School, and Lancaster University Management School, Professor Wall worked as an innovation, creativity and business growth consultant with entrepreneurs. Supported by major European regional development funds, this work collaborated with researchers at the Revans Institute for Action Learning (now at Manchester Business School), and examined creativity and business growth networks with 1000s of actual or aspiring entrepreneurs.
He then took academic leadership of a £5mn portfolio, attracting competitive funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Since then, his academic leadership and innovative approaches to collaborating in interdisciplinary teams and networks across the globe have attracted or contributed to multiple major European projects worth over €830k and have reached Australia, the US, France, Spain, Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and so on.
Professor Wall established the International Centre for Thriving, a global scale collaboration between business, education, arts, and health. Here, he had strategic oversight of impact-oriented projects and programmes and institutional leadership for the global Intra-University Research Programme for Sustainable Development and the European School of Sustainability Science Research. He has led or contributed to projects worth over £3.5mn.
In addition to being a Deputy Editor for the largest Encyclopaedia for Sustainable Development in the world, he is on the editorial review boards for for quartile 1 journals including Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Management Education, British Educational Research Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Cleaner Production, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, and PloS ONE.