Dr Kelly Sloan

Kelly's research interests are in sustainable personal leadership, lifelong learning, mid-life career changes, wellbeing at work and in education, language and business and student support and engagement. She teaches personal development and sustainable personal leadership and is the co-author of the book Personal Leadership in the Age of No Retirement, written with her colleague Tatiana Rowson.

In her role as School Director of Academic Tutoring, Kelly provides strategic oversight and leadership of initiatives to support student engagement with their studies and student development, progression and wellbeing for the nearly 10,000 students at Henley Business School. She previously served as the Programme Director of MBA Programmes and helped to develop the Global MBA.

Before joining Henley Business School's faculty in 2015, Kelly pursued a first academic career in linguistics, where she was Associate Professor of Phonology at the University of Potsdam, Germany. She also has 10 years' experience as a research manager for the European Research Council (ERC) and for the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics. She has a BA from Columbia University, USA, a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, and an Executive MBA from Henley Business School.