Chris Roebuck

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Chris Roebuck
NationalityBritish
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Website chrisroebuck.live

Chris Roebuck is a British economist, focusing on leadership and organisational performance. He was honorary visiting professor of transformational leadership at Cass Business School in London between 2009 and 2021. [1] [2] He advises organisations on improving performance through leadership, in particular developing entrepreneurial leadership. [3] [4]

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In 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021 he was nominated by HR Magazine as one of HRs Most Influential Thinkers. [5] In 2025, he was inducted into the HR Hall of Fame. [6] In 2025, he was appointed to the International Advisory Board of the UCL School of Management. [7] He serves as the chair of the Advisory Board for the MSc in People Analytics ad Human Centric Management beginning in 2025. [8]

Roebuck advises the Chartered Management Institute, [9] and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, business groups such as the Corporate Leadership Council, and the media, writing for Newsweek and quoted in publications such as The Times and the Wall Street Journal, and has been interviewed on leadership and business issues by the BBC and other television channels. [10]

Career

In 1992 he received his MBA from Cass Business School in London. His dissertation on organisational communication was featured in The Times , on BBC Television and was published worldwide in the International Journal of Strategic Management. [11]

In 1999, Roebuck was invited to be a member of a panel on improving leadership in British business in order to enhance competitiveness, reporting to the UK government. [12]

At UBS, Roebuck and colleagues led the delivery of a new development and leadership strategy for the bank's top 500 leaders. They subsequently co-ordinated the strategy via the business divisions for the other 70,000 employees. [13] This underpinned a new corporate alignment, culture and brand, improving the bottom line and the position of UBS in the global banking rankings through entrepreneurial leadership. In 2004, he was appointed global head of talent and leadership. The project at UBS progressed well with top management support and, as a result, in 2005 UBS won the title "Best Company for Leaders Europe" [14] and the "Best New Corporate University" awards, the "Corporate University Best Practice" and "Excellence" awards in 2006/2007, [15] and was ranked one of the top 10 best companies in Europe in 2007.

The UBS talent and leadership initiative now forms a key part of a Harvard Business School case study "UBS: Towards the Integrated Firm" on supporting strategic business change, realignment and improvement via talent and leadership activity. [16] This case is also reviewed from the organisational culture and performance perspective. [17]

Roebuck was part of the expert group developing the 2009 report on Employee Engagement "Engaging for Success" for the UK government to improve performance in British business. He also subsequently worked on its implementation. In 2011 he was commissioned by the King's Fund, the UKs leading health sector think tank, to deliver a report and recommendations on developing leadership in the NHS to enhance patient care for their commission to the UK government. [18]

Entrepreneurial leadership

Roebuck implemented the concept of entrepreneurial leadership in the corporate world in early 2000s by taking the behaviours of successful entrepreneurs and enabling UBS leaders to replicate them and leverage market opportunities. [19] He did this by identifying behaviours that could be transferred to UBS leaders to enhance their entrepreneurship.

Entreprenurial leadership is defined as “organizing a group of people to achieve a common goal using proactive entrepreneurial behavior by optimizing risk, innovating to take advantage of opportunities, taking personal responsibility and managing change within a dynamic environment for the benefit of an organization." [19] [20] [21] [22]

Publications

Roebuck has written books on leadership, communication and delegation. His book on "hands-on" leadership was a global bestseller, translated into 11 languages and was used as a best practice guide by the American Management Association. [23]

He had columns in CEO [24] and HR magazines for a number of years [25] and has written for publications such as Health Service Journal , [26] Governance magazine, [27] Management Today , [28] The Law Society Gazette , [29] Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Magazine, [30] and other business titles.[ citation needed ]

His work has been quoted globally, for example in the UK national press, Financial Times , The Wall Street Journal , [31] The Washington Post , [32] Time , [33] Chicago Tribune , Huffington Post , Le Monde , Times of India , [34] Vancouver Sun and more than 50 other business titles.[ citation needed ]

In May 2014, Roebuck published a combined guide to both organisational and individual leadership introducing a new model of leadership in his new book Lead to Succeed - The Only Leadership Book You Need. [35]

Honours

In December 2011, Roebuck became a Freeman of the City of London. [36] In March 2018 he was awarded Companionship of the Chartered Management Institute in recognition of his work developing business leadership. [37]

References

  1. ↑ "Cass Professor honoured by Chartered Institute of Management". Cass Business School - City, University of London. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  2. ↑ Lane, Edwin (16 February 2010). "Why bankers are still making millions". BBC News.
  3. ↑ "About Chris - Chris Roebuck". chrisroebuck.co. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  4. ↑ Authorities, Leading. "Chris Roebuck - Keynote Speakers - LAI". LAI. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  5. ↑ "Chris Roebuck, Visiting professor of transformational leadership, Cass Business School" HR Most Influential
  6. ↑ Ross, Hannah (4 July 2025). "The HR Most Influential lists for 2025 are revealed". HR Magazine. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
  7. ↑ "International Advisory Board | UCL School of Management". www.mgmt.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
  8. ↑ UCL School of Management (11 February 2025). Chris Roebuck discusses our new MSc People Analytics & Human Centric Management Programme . Retrieved 7 August 2025– via YouTube.
  9. ↑ "Professor Chris Roebuck (Visiting) | Chartered Management Institute". Archived from the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
  10. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/?q=chris%20roebuck%5B%5D
  11. ↑ Roebuck, Chris (1996). "Constructive feedback: Key to higher performance and commitment". Long Range Planning. 29 (3): 328–336. doi:10.1016/0024-6301(96)00028-3.
  12. ↑ ""Leadership and Management in the Changing Economy" Ideopolis International" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
  13. ↑ Business-driven integrated talent strategy Archived 25 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ "En dansk blog om mode, skønhed og livsstil". www.internalcommshub.com. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  15. ↑ "Top-level Support and a Clear Focus: Launching the UBS Leadership Institute" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 April 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
  16. ↑ "UBS: Towards the Integrated Firm". hbr.org. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  17. ↑ UBS Case Study Archived 25 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  18. ↑ "Developing effective leadership in the NHS to maximise the quality of patient care". Archived from the original on 4 April 2012.
  19. 1 2 "Managing change through interaction", Managing Technological Development, Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis, pp. 109–130, ISBN   978-0-203-29439-0 , retrieved 8 August 2025
  20. ↑ Zwilling, Martin. "Entrepreneurial Leadership Can Save Any Business". Forbes. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
  21. ↑ Roebuck, Chris (7 February 2025). "HR must be entrepreneurial to achieve future success". HR Magazine. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
  22. ↑ Rodríguez, Nieves (19 May 2021). "Leadership or Entrepreneurial Leadership?". Fastracktorefocus. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
  23. ↑ results, search (19 November 1999). Effective Leadership . AMACOM. ISBN   978-0814470596.
  24. ↑ "Chris Roebuck" The Chief Executive
  25. ↑ "Chris Roebuck" Archived 5 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine HR Magazine
  26. ↑ "The workforce drives efficiency" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  27. ↑ "Human capital management" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  28. ↑ "In my opinion - Chris Roebuck" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  29. ↑ "Making change happen" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  30. ↑ "Mastermind your people strategy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  31. ↑ Chris Roebuck: "Banks can't stop rogue traders" The Wall Street Journal
  32. ↑ "Roebuck sees broken link between CEO's pay performance" The Washington Post
  33. ↑ Quotes Time
  34. ↑ "'India has the best of the east and west'" (PDF). The Times of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
  35. ↑ "Lead to succeed - the only leadership book you need... | Lead to Succeed". Archived from the original on 4 March 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
  36. ↑ "HR Most Influential 2011 | People Updates | Cass Business School's Chris Roebuck receives Freedom of the City of London". Archived from the original on 8 March 2012.
  37. ↑ "Cass Professor honoured by Chartered Management Institute".
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