Paul DonovanPaul Donovan is Senior Lecturer at the School of Business, Maynooth University. Prior to this, he was Head of Management Development at the Irish Management Institute (IMI) in Dublin where he worked in senior management positions, including Registrar for 17 years. Before joining IMI, he worked as a General Operations Manager for Bord na Mona, the Irish Peat Development Authority during its major transformation. While there, he participated in major change initiatives, including the introduction of self-managing teams in the production and transport functions. He also wrote a thesis on the subject of major change in completion of a Masters Degree in Organizational Behaviour at Trinity College Dublin and graduated with a doctorate in human resources from Leicester University. He has considerable practitioner engagement experience and has delivered management development programmes in 15 countries over a period of 20 years. His current teaching includes the Change Management and Organizational Development module at Maynooth. His research interests include the transfer of learning from training interventions back into the workplace, and effective teaching and learning in higher education. He has contributed articles to the Journal of Management Education, Management Teaching Review and the Journal of European Industrial Training as well as several book chapters. He currently serves as Associate Editor with Management Teaching Review. While at IMI, he edited a series of six management textbooks aimed at supporting students of supervisory management. Read More Read Less