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An­nemette Kjær­gaard

Professor

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Management Ledelse Digitalisering Læring Uddannelse Undervisning

Primary research areas

Leadership development:

Rethinking leadership development to give emphasis to a relational, emergent and continuous process of becoming in leadership, moving away from a focus on the individual leader

Management Learning:

Developing pedagogies to foster a relational, processual understanding of learning to support responsible management education at business schools

Business Education:

Transforming business education to educate the leaders of tomorrow to contribute to solving current and future societal grand challenges

I look for new ways of teaching and learning to support responsible management education. I transform how leadership development is understood and taught. I teach early-career faculty to become better teachers

I have a particular interest in business education and learning, focusing on developing pedagogies for responsible leadership.   

My research, teaching and educational development activities contribute to  

- Rethinking how leadership is taught based on a process-relational understanding. I build on experience from teaching personal leadership development in CBS’ Master of Public Governance.  

- Creating new educational formats and pedagogies to motivate and support responsible management education. This includes a focus on teaching activities as well as assessment formats.  

- Decisions on how to include technology in education with a particular focus on blending in-class and online activities.  

- Development of university faculty’s teaching competences. I teach in CBS’ faculty development program for early-career faculty. 

Recent research projects

Gradeless Learning

A project aiming to explore students’ experiences with gradeless learning including effects on learning outcome, well-being and personal development.

Leadership Development

This project aims at developing a process-relational perspective on leadership development to support new understandings of leadership as collective, complex and practice-based.

Responsible management education

Project that focuses on transforming management education into responsible management education including challenges for educational leadership as well as teaching and learning practices.

Research in Blended Learning (2018-2025)

Project to explore the use of blended learning in management education including student experiences, faculty competences and wider implications for higher education

Outside activities

Consultancy Sensus aps, 1990–present

Adhoc consultancy assignments