Dr Mladen Adamovic is a Senior Lecturer in Global Management and Leadership at King’s College London. He also serves as the business school’s Student Exchange Coordinator, fostering international student mobility and driving global academic partnerships. His research and teaching focus on two key areas:

Global Management:

• Inclusion of ethnic minorities
• Name and ethnic discrimination in recruitment
• Cultural differences in the workplace
• AI and ethnic discrimination

Leadership:

• The glass ceiling and glass cliff for ethnic minorities
• Leading multinational and virtual teams and organisations
• Leadership in sports
• Resilience and self-leadership

Dr Adamovic’s work is characterised by rigorous empirical methods, including survey studies, field experiments, and advanced quantitative data analyses. He has collaborated with organisations such as Cisco, Hudson RPO, Sapia, WorkSafe Victoria, Talent Beyond Boundaries, Diversity Council Australia, and police unions. His findings have been published in over 50 peer-reviewed journals, including The Leadership Quarterly, Industrial Relations, and Human Resource Management Journal. He has also shared his research with wider audiences through articles in Harvard Business Review and The Conversation.

Dr Adamovic has been recognised for his academic contributions with numerous awards such as:

• The Leadership Quarterly Best Article Award
• The King’s Business School Impact Prize
• The Financial Times recognition for addressing societal challenges through responsible research

He secured over 10 research grants and delivered over 50 presentations, including several keynotes. His book on ChatGPT in business research became an Amazon bestseller, underscoring the practical value of his work.

With extensive international experience, Dr Adamovic has held academic positions at the University of Melbourne, Monash University, the University of Auckland, and the University of Toulouse, where he completed his PhD. In addition, he holds 2 Undergraduate and 2 Master’s degrees, earned through prestigious programs at the Universities of Kiel, Rennes, Lisbon, and Belgrade.

Dr Adamovic is a highly regarded educator, receiving consistent top-tier student evaluation scores (recent scores of 4.8 for International HRM, 4.7 for Leadership, and 4.8 for Organizational Resilience). He teaches a range of modules on topics such as Leadership, Cross-Cultural Management, Organizational Behaviour, and International HRM. He also contributes to executive education, delivering workshops on leadership to senior leaders globally. He has demonstrated exceptional supervisory experience, supervising over 30 research and teaching assistants from diverse backgrounds in the past decade.

His dedication to addressing workplace inequality and advancing scholarly understanding of cross-cultural and leadership dynamics has positioned Dr Adamovic as a leading expert in his field.

Dr Mladen Adamovic is currently accepting new PhD students.