Newcastle University

Qualifications

2009 MA Coaching for Organisational Excellence
2008 MA Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
2004 PhD (Dunelm)
2001 MA International Business Administration

Previous Positions

2006-2010: Senior Lecturer in Business and Management, Sunderland Business School
2004-2006: Lecturer in Strategic Management, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England
2003-2004: Seminar tutor (p/t), Durham Business School

Memberships

Member, ESRC Peer Review College
Assoc Acad Member, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
Fellow, Higher Education Academy (HEA)
Member, European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS)
Member, British Academy of Management (BAM) and
Secretary to special interest group 'research methodology'

Esteem indicators

Reviewer for:
Organization
Organization Studies
Journal of Organizational Change Management
Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management
M@n@agement
International Journal of Coaching and Mentoring

Research Interests

Organisational change, organisational learning, narrative / storytelling, coaching.

Current Work

Stefanie’s current research is a three-year project into the dynamics of organisational storytelling, for which she has been awarded an ESRC First Grant (RES-061-25-0144). More details about the study can be found on the project website www.managerial-storytelling.com.

Funding

Managerial Storytelling: Dynamics and Implications. Funded by ESRC under the First Grant scheme for £165,000 FEC over three years (2007-2012).

Undergraduate Teaching

BUS1005: Personal, Professional and Key Skills Development
BUS2031: Managing Change (new from 2012-2013)

Postgraduate Teaching

NBS8272: Developing Skills for Business Leadership
NBS8273: Investigating a Business Issue from an HR Perspective
NBS8062: Dissertation
NBS8262: Dissertation (dual award with Groningen)

Postgraduate Supervision

• Reissner SC, Pagan V. Storytelling in management practice: Dynamics and implications. London: Routledge, 2013. In Preparation.
• Reissner SC, Pagan V. Managerial storytelling: Skill, art and luck?. In: 28th EGOS Colloquium. 2012, Helsinki, Finland. Submitted.
• Reissner SC, Pagan V. Anatomy of resistance in a partnership workspace. In: 7th Organization Studies Summer Workshop: Organizations as spaces of work. 2012. Submitted.
• Reissner SC, Pagan V, Smith C. 'Our iceberg is melting': Story, metaphor and the management of organisational change. Culture and Organization 2011, 17(5), 417-433.
• Reissner SC, Pagan V. Employee engagement: The use of storytelling. London: Chartered Management Institute, 2011. Available at: http://cmilibrary.managers.org.uk/Library/Download.aspx?id=2199.
• Reissner SC, Pagan V. Storytelling in organisational communication. Chartered Management Institute, 2011. Available at: http://www.managers.org.uk.
• Reissner SC. Stories of the unspoken. In: 27th EGOS Colloquium. 2011, Gothenburg, Sweden: submitted.
• Reissner SC. The persuasive power of the tale: The dynamics of managerial storytelling. In: 4th International Conference on Rhetoric and Narrative in Management Research. 2011, ESADE, Barcelona.
• Reissner SC, DuToit A. Power and the tale: Coaching as storyselling. Journal of Management Development 2011, 30(3), 247-259.
• Reissner SC. Change, meaning and identity at the workplace. Journal of Organizational Change Management 2010,23 3 287-299.
• Watson G, Reissner SC, ed. Developing skills for business leadership. London:CIPD,2010.
• Reissner SC. Narrative and story: New perspectives on coaching. The International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching 2008, 6(3), 1-5.
• Reissner SC. Narratives of organisational change and learning. Cheltenham:Edward Elgar Publishing,2008.
• Reissner SC. Story and anti-story: Patterns of narrative in organizational change situations. In: 10th Organizational Storytelling Seminar. 2006, University of Bath, UK.
• Reissner SC. Making sense of sudden change. In: 22nd EGOS Colloquium. 2006, Bergen, Norway.
• Reissner SC. Learning and innovation: A narrative analysis. Journal of Organizational Change Management 2005,18 5 482-494.
• Reissner SC. Learning by storytelling: Narratives in the study of work-based learning. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education 2004,10 2 99-113.