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