What Twenty-First Century Leadership Can Learn from Nineteenth Century American Literature

Dr Christine A. Eastman is a Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University. Her research centres on professional practice, leadership, assessment innovation, and the re-conceptualisation of continuing professional development. Dr Eastman contributes to the leadership programme at Lancaster University where she lectures on the integration of American literature into a business curriculum as well as contribute to various leadership initiatives through a literary lens. She is the author of Coaching for Professional Development: Using Literature to Support Success (Routledge, 2019), Improving Workplace Learning by Teaching Literature: Towards Wisdom (Springer, 2016) and editor of Transforming Sales Leadership: Real Stories from Sales Practitioners (Routledge, forthcoming 2024).