Kosheek Sewchurran

Associate Professor Kosheek Sewchurran is primarily interested in organising practices and research that acknowledge the realities of a lived-experience. This scholarship finds expression in the conversation he convenes related to Business Model Innovation, Strategy-as-practice and Leadership-as-practice.

Before he joined the UCT GSB, he was Assoc Prof and HOD of the Department of Information Systems at UCT's Faculty of Commerce. Prior to entering academia, he spent a little over a decade on manufacturing projects, working as a Systems Engineer optimising plant automation and designing and implementing enterprise information systems.

Sewchurran holds a doctorate in Project Organising (PhD) from UCT; a Master of Science in Systems Thinking (MSc) from UKZN; a Bachelor of Science Honours in Computer Science (CompSci) from UKZN; and a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering and Operations Research (BSc) from UNISA.

Education

• Integral Coach® (UCT GSB) Graduate School of Business - University of Cape Town (2020.02 — 2020.12)
• PhD University of Cape Town (2006 — 2008)
• MSc University of KwaZulu-Natal (2001 — 2002)
• BSc Honors University of KwaZulu-Natal (1999 — 2000)
• BSc University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika (1993 — 1998)
• Matriculation Exemption heather secondary (1988 — 1994)

Companies

• Program Director of Executive MBA. UCT Graduate School of Business (2013)
• Integral Coach® Managing in Complexity (PTY) LTD (2012)
• Associate Professor - Leadership & Strategy as practice (L-A-P) UCTs Graduate School of Business (2012)
• Member of the international editorial advisory board International Journal of Managing Projects in Business (2010)
• Member of the international editorial review board International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA) (2009)
• Global Advisory Board Member Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (2013 — 2020)
• Interim Dean / Director Graduate School of Business - University of Cape Town (2018 — 2020)
• Speaker on Business Innovation panel - 18 May 2015 - 09:00-10:30 - GIBS Association of African Business Schools - Connect Annual Conference 2015 (2015 — 2015)
• Conference Chair : BUSINESS OF SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION 2014 Conference UCT Graduate School of Business (2014 — 2014)