Research Programme

How worldviews shape leadership, engagement, and organizational transformation.

Dr George Kesselaar’s research bridges management scholarship and executive practice, asking how leaders make meaning under pressure and how organizations move when their underlying assumptions are made visible.

Current projects.

Worldview activation

Tracing the moments in which assumptions become visible and begin to reorganize leadership attention.

Executive engagement

Studying how senior leaders sustain meaningful engagement through uncertainty and strategic ambiguity.

Strategic change

Examining how interpretive frames influence transformation, resistance, and organizational sensemaking.

Academic output

A working library for inquiry and application.

Peer-reviewed publications

Worldviews, leadership attention, and the conditions of transformation

Conference papers

Executive engagement in complex change environments

Teaching cases

Seeing differently: a leadership case on strategic reframing

Downloads

Research overview, framework notes, and executive teaching resources

Research interests.

Worldviews

Leadership attention

Executive engagement

Strategic change

Transformation

Executive education