Fictional Leaders: Heroes, Villans and Absent Friends

About Jonathan GoslingPeter Villiers

Jonathan Gosling is Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter UK and has published articles in Harvard Business Review Sloan Management Review Leadership Management Learning and elsewhere. He advises companies agencies and government departments across the world on their leadership-related issues. He is Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust and the Leadership Foundation a member of the Advisory Board of the Defence Academy co-director of the European Leadership Centre and director of Coaching Ourselves Inc. Peter Villiers is a writer lecturer and consultant with a wealth of practical experience in leadership and management development. He has served in the merchant navy as a captain in the Royal Armoured Corps in Northern Ireland Cyprus and Hong Kong and as the principal of a leading tutorial college. From 1986 to 2004 he was a senior tutor at the UK National Police Staff College where his final position was as the head of human rights. He is a widely published author and has written textbooks histories guides biographies and plays.