Dr Ali Naghieh

Biography

Dr Ali Naghieh is Senior Lecturer in Workforce Management and Leadership at Middlesex University Business School. He is an academic and practitioner specialising in strategic foresight, organisational change, participative multi-stakeholder processes and public policy implementation, with a particular interest in how leaders and organisations move from competing perspectives towards coordinated and implementable action.

He holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford. His inter-disciplinary doctoral research developed and piloted a participative organisational change intervention designed to enable organisational members to diagnose problems and develop context-specific solutions. He subsequently held a Research Fellowship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where his work focused on multi-stakeholder system-level change and the development of new models of integrated public-service delivery.

Ali was also a Lead Facilitator on the Oxford Scenarios Programme, applying scenario planning to strategic leadership and decision-making under uncertainty. He has designed and facilitated strategic and organisational processes for organisations including HM Treasury, Rolls-Royce, EY, Standard Chartered Bank and the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds, as well as other public-sector and international clients.

His work combines academic research with organisational practice, particularly around leadership, stakeholder alignment, participative change and strategy under uncertainty. A recurring focus of this work is how organisations can bring together stakeholders with different interests and perspectives, surface underlying assumptions, create shared understanding and move towards practical collective action.

Teaching

Ali teaches in the areas of leadership, organisational behaviour and psychology, organisational change, and strategy, including executive and professional education.

He is interested in supervising doctoral research on leadership and organisational change; public policy and public management; workforce transformation and professional identity; participative and multi-stakeholder change; strategic foresight and scenario planning; the future of work and professions; and organisational responses to complex societal challenges.