Dr Christine Eastman

Biography

Dr Christine Eastman is Senior Lecturer in the Business School at Middlesex University and Teaching Fellow in the Management School at Lancaster University. She is also a qualified coach, with unique experience in facilitating professionals’ transition from manager to leader. For the past decade, she has been programme leader for the MSc Sales Transformation at Middlesex University. The MSc is a practice-based programme, with a strong focus on reflective and experiential learning. Alongside her leadership of the MSc, she has run a successful CPD course in publishing and writing for alumni from the programme and other leadership coaching programmes. Corporate client groups on the MSc Professional Practice in Leading Sales Transformation have come from the Halifax, Nationwide, SAP, Sony, and Toshiba.

In her role as Teaching Fellow in the Professional and Executive Management Learning Department at Lancaster University’s School of Management, she drives the writing and publication agenda for students and alumni. Her previous roles include Director of Applied Professional Practice at the University of Kent.

She is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education and has published in a wide range of international journals. Her books include Coaching for Professional Development: Using Literature to Support Success (Routledge, 2019) and Improving Workplace Learning by Teaching Literature: Towards Wisdom (Springer-Palgrave, 2016). Her latest book, What Twenty-first Century Leadership Can Learn from Nineteenth-century American Fiction (Oxford University Press, 2024). She is the editor of the book Transformational Sales Leadership: Sales Leader Perspectives (Routledge, 2024). Her newest edited collection of narratives about reinvention and retirement Radical Retirement, the Reinvention of Self After Work was published by Routledge in April 2026. 

Teaching

Module leader for MSc Professional Practice Leading Sales Transformation.