Caroline Rook

Dr Caroline Rook is a Lecturer in Leadership at Henley Business School.

Caroline's research relates to creating healthy and productive workplaces through exploring the links between leadership and well-being in organisations. She investigates in particular how to manage executive stress, how to maintain authentic functioning at work and the role of coaching for creating resilience for positive leadership. She has been involved in research and practice related to the topics of leadership, well-being, authenticity and coaching for some years at Lord Ashcroft International Business School, INSEAD (France) and the University of Exeter Business School, Centre for Leadership Studies .

Caroline holds a degree in Psychology (majors: Clinical Psychology, Organisational Psychology, Communication Psychology) from Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena (Germany) and obtained her PhD from the University of Exeter.

Caroline teaches on the Henley Business School MBA Programmes, MA Leadership and Professional Certificate in Coaching. She is module convener for Finding your Leadership DNA (MSc Management for Future Leaders), Coaching and Mentoring for Leaders (MA Leadership), Dissertation module (MA Leadership) and Leadership in the 21st Century (BA Business and Management).

Specialisms

• Healthy Workplaces
• Mental Heath at Work
• Executive Coaching
• Resilience
• Leadership Development

Education

• Henley Business School - Professional Certificate in Coaching 2016 - 2017
• University of Exeter - PhD, Leadership Studies 2009 - 2012
• Friedrich Schiller University Jena - Diplom-Psychologe, Industrial and Organisational Psychology, Communication Psychology, Intercultural Business Comm. 2002 - 2009

Publications

• Reference: Kets de Vries, M. F.R. and Rook, C. (2022) The "authentizotic" organisation: creating best places to work. Organisational and Social Dynamics, 22 (2). pp. 220-225. ISSN 2044-3765 doi: https://doi.org/10.33212/osd.v22n2.2022.220
• Reference: Kets de Vries, M. F. R. and Rook, C. (2021) Executive group coaching: interventions not for the faint of heart. Organisational and Social Dynamics, 21 (1). pp. 134-151. ISSN 2044-3765 doi: https://doi.org/10.33212/osd.v21n1.2021.134
• Reference: Vriend, T., Rook, C. , Garretsen, H., Stoker, J. I. and Kets de Vries, M. (2021) Relating cultural distance to self-other agreement of leader-observer dyads: the role of hierarchical position. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. ISSN 1664-1078 doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.738120
• Reference: Surma, M. J., Nunes, R. J. , Rook, C. and Loder, A. (2021) Assessing employee engagement in a post-COVID-19 work-place ecosystem. Sustainability, 13 (20). 11443. ISSN 2071-1050 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/su132011443
• Reference: Gilani, P., Rook, C. , Razeghi, Y. and Carr, M. (2022) Swimming against the current: negotiating leadership challenges for women in Iran. Leadership, 18 (1). pp. 162-185. ISSN 1742-7150 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/17427150211047102
• Reference: Korzynski, P., Rook, C. , Florent-Treacy, E. and Kets de Vries, M. (2021) The impact of self-esteem, conscientiousness and pseudo-personality on technostress. Internet Research, 31 (1). ISSN 1066-2243 doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/INTR-03-2020-0141
• Reference: Senarclens de Grancy, M. and Rook, C. (2020) Working with the symptom — a new perspective on dealing with low well-being in organisations. Organisational & Social Dynamics, 20 (1). pp. 101-105. ISSN 2044-3765
• Reference: Rook, C. , Adarves-Yorno, I. and O'Brien, A. (2020) What are key components of workplace well-being? - examining real life experiences in different work contexts. In: Dhiman, S. (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Wellbeing. Palgrave, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9783030300265 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02470-3_68-1
• Reference: Rook, C. , Hellwig, T., Florent-Treacy, E. and Kets de Vries, M. (2019) Workplace stress in senior executives: coaching the “uncoachable". International Coaching Psychology Review, 14 (2). pp. 7-23. ISSN 2396-8753
• eference: Florent-Treacy, E., Korotov, K. and Rook, C. (2017) Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries: playing the morosoph. In: Szabla, D. B., Pasmore, W., Barnes, M. and Gipson, A. N. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319528779
• Reference: Kets de Vries, M. and Rook, C. (2018) Coaching challenging executives. In: Passmore, J. , Underhill, B. and Goldsmith, M. (eds.) Mastering Executive Coaching. Routledge. ISBN 9780815372912
• Reference: Rook, C. , Smith, L., Johnstone, J., Rossato, C., Guillermo Felipe, L. S., Arturo, D. S. and Roberts, J. (2018) Reconceptualising workplace resilience - a cross-disciplinary perspective. Annals of Psychology, 34 (2). pp. 332-339. ISSN 1695-2294 doi: https://doi.org/10.6018/analesps.34.2.299371
• Reference: Agrawal, A. and Rook, C. (2014) Global Leaders in East and West: do all global leaders lead in the same way? In: Osland, J. S., Li, M. and Wang, Y. (eds.) Advances in Global Leadership. Advances in Global Leadership, 8. Emerald, pp. 155-179. ISBN 9781783504794
• Reference: Rook, C. , Hellwig, T. and Florent-Treacy, E. (2016) Executive stress - Taboo or opportunity for change? In: Korotov, K., Florent-Treacy, E. and Kets de Vries, M. F.R. (eds.) Coach and Couch. The Psychology of Making Better Leaders. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230506381
• Reference: Kets de Vries, M. F. R., Rook, C. and Engellau, E. (2016) Coaching across the gender divide – creating women-friendly or people-friendly organisations? In: Korotov, K., Florent-Treacy, E. and Kets de Vries, M. F.R. (eds.) Coach and Couch. The Psychology of Making Better Leaders. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230506381
• Reference: Rook, C. (2016) Introduction: A psychodynamic approach to leadership development. In: Korotov, K., Florent-Treacy, E. and Kets de Vries, M. F. R. (eds.) Coach and Couch. The Psychology of Making Better Leaders. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230506381
• Reference: Rook, C. , Hellwig, T., Florent-Treacy, E. and Kets de Vries, M. F. R. (2016) Leveraging findings from neuroscience and psychodynamic theory to tackle senior executive stress. In: Thriving in Turbulent Times. British Academy of Management. (Proceedings of the British Academy of Management Conference 2016)
• Reference: Rook, C. , Vriend, T., Garretsen, H., Stoker, J. and Kets de Vries, M. F. R. (2016) Are there differences in how leaders lead across the globe? A dynamic approach to cross-cultural influences on the leadership process. In: British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference, University of Liverpool.
• Reference: Kets de Vries, M. F. R., Korotov, K., Florent-Treacy, E. and Rook, C. (2016) Coach and couch: the psychology of making better leaders. In: Coach and couch: the psychology of making better leaders. 2nd edition. INSEAD Business Press. Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, UK. ISBN 9781137561596