Joseph Raelin

Selected Publications

• Raelin J. (2023). “Leadership-as-Practice: Its Past History, Present Emergence, and Future Potential,” Academy of Management Collections, 2(2), 19-30. https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amc.2021.0005
• Raelin, J. (2021). “Action Learning as a Human Resource Development Resource to Realize Collective Leadership,” Human Resource Development Review, 20(3), 282-288. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/15344843211022600
• Raelin, J. (2020). “Hierarchy's Subordination of Democracy and How to Outrank It,” Management Learning, 51(5), 620-633. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1350507620928154
• Raelin, J. (2020). “Toward a Methodology for Studying Leadership-as-Practice,” Leadership, 16(4), 480-508. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1742715019882831
• Raelin, J. (2020). “Not Leader Development, Leadership-as-Practice Development,” Training Magazine, March 30. https://trainingmag.com/not-leader-development-leadership-practice-development
• Raelin, J. (2018). “What Are You Afraid Of: Collective Leadership and its Learning Implications,” Management Learning, 49(1), 59-66. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1350507617729974 followed by ManagementInk blog: “The fear imagery in collective leadership,” https://shorturl.at/jltP3
• Raelin, J. (2017). “Leadership-as-Practice: Theory and Application – An Editor's Reflection,” Leadership, 13(2), 215-221. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1742715017702273
• Raelin, J. ed. (2016) Leadership-as-Practice: Theory and Application. New York: Routledge. https://shorturl.at/oCFMO
• Raelin, J. (2016). “Imagine There Are No Leaders: Reframing Leadership as Collaborative Agency,” Lead article in Leadership, 12(2), 131- 158. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1742715014558076 Released in the SAGE Business and Management Video Collection. https://shorturl.at/bjHV2
• Raelin, J. (2013). “The Manager as Facilitator of Dialogue.” Organization, 20(6), 818-839.
• Raelin, J. et al. (2014). “The Gendered Effect of Cooperative Education, Contextual Support, and Self-Efficacy on Undergraduate Retention,” Journal of Engineering Education, 103(4), 599-624.
• Raelin, J. (2011). “From Leadership-as-Practice to Leaderful Practice,” Leadership, 7(2): 195-211.
• Raelin, J. (2010). The Leaderful Fieldbook: Strategies and Activities for Developing Leadership in Everyone. Boston: Davies-Black.
• Raelin, J. (2008). Work-Based Learning: Bridging Knowledge and Action in the Workplace, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Raelin, J. (2007). “Toward an Epistemology of Practice,” Exemplary Contribution in Academy of Management Learning and Education, 6(4), 495-519.
• Raelin, J. (2003). Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.
• Raelin, J. (1997). “A Model of Work-Based Learning,” Lead article in Organization Science, 8(6), 563-578.
• Raelin, J. (1991). The Clash of Cultures: Managers Managing Professionals. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

Selected Presentations

• Raelin, J. “The Leaderful Contribution to Intercultural Collaboration,”, Keynote for the 36th SIETAR (Society for Intercultural Education Training & Research) Japan Conference, (November 27-28, 2021).
• Raelin, J. “Action Learning as Human Resource Development for Collective Leadership,” Keynote presentation for the Action Learning: Research and Practice Symposium,” co-sponsored by the University Forum for Human Resource Development, (April 21, 2021).
• Raelin, J. “Leadership-as-Practice and Action Learning,” presented as the Distinguished Scholar Lecture at the Executive Leadership Doctoral Program in Human and Organizational Learning, George Washington University, Ashburn, VA, (March 9, 2019).
• Raelin, J. “Is There a Role for Business Schools When Practice is at Stake,” Keynote address at the First Teaching and Learning Conference, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (August 11, 2013).
• Raelin, J. “The Practice Shift: Dialogue and Learning in ‘Leaderful' Development,” Presentation for the Learning Innovations Laboratory, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA (April 25, 2013).
• Raelin, J. “Should We Be Doing Action Learning Research?” Keynote address at the New Dimensions in Action Learning 2012 Conference, Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cambridge, MA, (August 2, 2012).
• Raelin, J. “Work-Based Learning and Sustainability: The Case for Reflective Practice in HRD,” Opening keynote address for the 12th International HRD (Human Resource Development) Conference, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK, (May 25, 2011).
• Raelin, J. “The Manager's New Role: From Controller to ‘Leaderful' Facilitator,” Keynote for the 8th International Conference on Studying Leadership: Leadership in Crisis,” Hosted by the Centre for Leadership, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, (December 7-8, 2009).

Education

• PhD Policy Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo
• Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Organizational Development, Boston University
• EdM and certification in Counseling, Tufts University
• BA Political Science and French, Tufts University

Research & Teaching Interests

Professor Raelin is internationally renowned for his co-development of a number of fields in the domain of management; in particular, the current co-creation of the emerging movement in leadership known as “leadership-as-practice”; the prior origination of a new paradigm of collective leadership referred to as “leaderful practice”; the deepening of the field of work-based learning; the invention of the work self-efficacy inventory; and the advancement of the practice of managing professionals in organizations.

Industry & Academic Experience

Raelin has been an active consultant in human resource development to all sectors of our economy. Among his special capabilities is the development of real-time learning opportunities to managers and executives as part of an organization's talent development function. Besides his service to Northeastern, he has held or holds the following international visiting roles:

• Visiting Professor of Social Science, Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Lappeenranta, Finland
• PEML Visiting Scholar, Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), Lancaster, United Kingdom
• Donald Gordon Visiting Professor of Leadership, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Department of Organisation Studies, School of Management, University of Bath, United Kingdom

Services to the Profession

Raelin is associate editor of the journal, Action Learning: Research and Practice, and is on the editorial boards of Journal of Change Management, Management Learning, Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning. He has also served as a special issue editor for the Journal of Change Management, Human Resource Management, and twice for Management Learning.

Awards & Recognition

Among Raelin's international recognitions are the 2010 David Bradford Outstanding Educator Award from the iMOBTS International Teaching Society for Management Educators, the 2012 Ralph W. Tyler Award for Outstanding and Distinguished Research and Publication in the Field of Cooperative Education, the 2013 CEIA (Cooperative Education and Internship Association) James W. Wilson Award for outstanding contribution to research in the field of cooperative education, and eight best-paper awards including one best-conference paper at the American Association of Engineering Education's 2012 Annual Conference.