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About Julian

Julian is the author (with Simon Rego) of The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook For Leaders (2026), Brave New Workplace: Designing Productive, Healthy and Safe Organizations (2023), The Science of Leadership: Lessons From Research for Organizational Leaders (2014) and Imagining the Post-Covid Workplace: Challenges and Opportunies (2025).

Academic Degrees

  • PhD
    Witwatersrand (1979)
  • M.A.
    Witwatersrand (1975)
  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Psychology
    Witwatersrand (1974)
  • Bachelor of Arts
    Bachelor of Arts

Academic Experience

Smith School of Business, Queen’s University

  • Distinguished University Professor
  • Borden Chair of Leadership (2012 - Present)
  • Associate Dean, Research, PhD & Programs (1999-2011)
  • Chair, Research, PhD & Programs (1997-1999)
  • Director, Executive MBA Program (1995-1996)
  • Professor (1994 - Present)

Institute for Work Psychology, University of Sheffield

  • Associate Member (1997-2004)

Department of Psychology, Queen’s University

  • Professor (1988-1994)
  • Chair, Graduate Program (1988-1991)
  • Associate Professor (1984-1988)

Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand

  • Professor (1979-1984)
  • Head, Division of Industrial Psychology (1979-1984)
  • Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (1976-1979)

Profile

Julian’s research interests focus on the nature and development of transformational leadership and employee well-being, and he is also the author of well over 200 research articles and book chapters, and the author or editor of several books, including Employment, Stress and Family Functioning (1990, Wiley & Sons); The Union and Its Members: A Psychological Approach (1992, Oxford University Press); Changing Employment Relations: Behavioral and Social Perspectives (1995, American Psychological Association); Young Workers (1999, American Psychological Association); and The Psychology of Workplace Safety (2004, American Psychological Association).

He was formerly the editor of the American Psychological Association's Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, served as the chair of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Workplace Violence in 2001-2002, and was the chair of the Advisory Council on Occupational Health and Safety to the Ontario Minister of Labour from 1989-1991.

Julian is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Canadian Psychological Association.

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Highlights

In an external analysis in 2018, Julian was ranked as one of the 10 most influential leadership researchers in the world.

Julian received the National Post's "Leaders in Business Education" award in 2001

MacLean's magazine named Julian as one of Queen's University's most popular professors in 1996.