Milton Sousa
Milton Sousa
Associate Professor at Nova SBE and Co-founder of the Leadership for Impact Knowledge Centre. President of the Estoril Institute for Global Dialogue. Author of "The Meaningful Leader " - The power of meaning to serve and transform- launched 2024
Milton Sousa is Associate Professor at Nova SBE. He co-founded the Leadership for Impact Knowledge Centre at the school where he has also been Associate Dean for Institutional Relations and International Development and Academic Director of the CEMS MIM programme.
Previously, he was Director of the MBA Programs at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands. Milton currently also serves as President of the Estoril Institute for Global Dialogue, a think tank dedicated to globalization and local change.
He chaired 3 editions of the Estoril Conferences, a large international forum on globalization that gathers renowned world leaders from business, academia and public sector. In that quality he has worked with the United Nations, World Bank, European Commission, NATO, and several world-class universities.
In business, Milton founded Leaders2Be, an organization that he ran for 5 years offering leadership development programs. He worked in various research and management positions, including Royal Philips Electronics, and as a strategy and management consultant at Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação and the Hay Group.
Milton is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer on the topics of leadership and organizational behavior in several universities and business schools. His research interests include ethical leadership and servant leadership.
Author of - The Meaningful Leader - The power of meaning to serve and transform - launched 2024
Research Interests
Servant leadership, Meaning in work and organizations, Complex Adaptive Systems, Innovation
Topics
Leadership & Future - Servant leadership - Organizational Behavior - Corporate performance - Change management - Innovation - Entrepreneurship
Conference
Empower to gain power
Languages
Portuguese,English, Dutch
Publications
Cunha, Miguel Pina E., Hernández-linares, Remedios, De Sousa, Milton, Clegg, Stewart, Rego, Arménio (2022). Evolving conceptions of work-family boundaries: In defense of the family as stakeholder. Humanistic Management Journal, 7, 55-93.
Sousa, Milton, Cunha, Miguel Pina E., Simpson, Ace V., Giustiniano, Luca, Rego, Arménio, Clegg, Stewart (2022). Servus or pater? How paradoxical intent can qualify leadership: inductions from the Kingdom of Bhutan. Journal of Change Management, 22 (3), 321-353.
Sousa, Milton, van Dierendonck, Dirk (2021). Serving the need of people: the case for servant leadership against populism. Journal of Change Management, 21 (2), 222-241.
Cunha, Miguel Pina e, Clegg, Stewart, Costa, Cláudia, Leite, António Pinto, Rego, Arménio, Simpson, Ace Volkmann, Sousa, Marta Oom de, Sousa, Milton (2017). Gemeinschaft in the midst of Gesellschaft? Love as an organizational virtue. Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, 14 (1), 3-21.
Sousa, Milton, Van Dierendonck, Dirk (2017). Servant leaders as underestimators: Theoretical and practical implications. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 38 (2), 270-283.
Books and Book Chapters
Rodrigues, João Loureiro, de Sousa, Milton (2021). Making waves through education: a method for addressing security grand challenges in educational contexts. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, 487-498.
Martinez de Castro Pinto Luz, Miguel, Sousa, Milton (2018). Incorporating organizational ambidexterity in the public sector through servant leadership. Practicing Servant Leadership. : Developments in Implementation. van Dierendonck, Dirk, Patterson, Kathleen (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, 231-248.
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