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Michael Fischer

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Professor of Organisational Culture & Leadership, Monash University

As Professor of Organisational Culture and Leadership at Monash Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Health and Social Care Unit, I work with senior healthcare teams (executives and professionals) in transformative, cultural change. My work focuses on the role of relations, emotion and power in mobilising change.

I have a thriving consultancy practice (Fischer Consults) as an executive leadership coach and organisational consultant in the UK and Australia. I served as business school professor at University of Oxford, King's College London, and the University of Melbourne, and was previously a clinical director and lead consultant psychotherapist in the UK National Health Service. I worked at major teaching hospitals in Manchester, Liverpool and London, and held national roles in whole-systems (cross-sector) collaboration.

I hold a PhD in organisational culture and leadership from Imperial College London, University of London. I am an accredited group analyst and psychotherapist, and ICF executive coach.

• Professional Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation
• Founding Fellow, Institute of Coaching at Harvard-McLean
• Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute
• Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine
• Fellow, Higher Education Authority
• Life Member, Oxford University Anthropological Society

Experience

  • 2016–present
    Professor, Associate Dean, Director Centre for Sustainable HRM & Wellbeing, ACU
  • 2014–present
    Visiting Professor, University of Oxford
  • 2014–2017
    Associate Professor & Deputy Director Centre for Workplace Leadership, University of Melbourne
  • 1999–2014
    Clinical Director & Consultant Psychotherapist, St Thomas' London | South London & Maudsley | Manchester University Hospitals
  • 2012–2014
    Associate Professor & Senior Fellow, University of Oxford
  • 2008–2012
    Senior Research Fellow, King's College London
  • 2009–2012
    Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford

Education

  • 2008 
    Imperial College London, University of London, PhD

Professional Memberships

  • The Royal Society of Medicine
  • Institute of Group Analysis, London
  • Royal Anthropological Institute
  • Oxford University Anthropological Society
  • International Coaching Federation
  • Institute of Coaching, McLean Harvard Medical School