Dr. Sinéad Roden is a Reader in Operations Management and head of department of Information Technology, Analytics, and Operations at Queen’s Business School. Before joining Queen’s Business School, Sinéad was a Programme Director at Trinity Business School, where she founded the Masters in Operations and Supply Chain Management.

Sinéad’s research focuses on strategic inter-organisational relationships, particularly the governance and development of buyer-supplier networks and the influence of geopolitics and technology. She also studies risk management, with an emphasis on supply chain risk mitigation and the role of supply base characteristics in disruption recovery. 

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Dr Gowers-Cromie has 15 years’ experience in designing and delivering executive level education across a wide range of contexts and sectors. She is a programme instructor at the Clinton Leadership Institute contributing on a range of leadership and management courses. Having worked in a range of commercial, academic and public organisations she has hands-on leadership experience in very different organisational settings, in both geographically dispersed and local teams.

She has significant experience in small business, business growth, leading a growing team, organisational culture, team development, operating and business model development. Leading a dispersed team across the UK, Africa and South America. Her particular areas of expertise are in leadership and organisational change management. Her dynamic delivery style brings content to life to engage participants in applying learning to real life business problems. She is passionate about individual growth as well as organisational effectiveness.

Dr. Jelena Vlajić, Ph.D., FCILT is an experienced academic and practitioner with expertise in supply chain management, operations, and sustainability. She combines a strong research background with hands-on industry collaboration, applying systems thinking to address complex business challenges.

Dr. Vlajić has published extensively in leading operations and supply chain journals and has successfully supervised Ph.D. students. Her teaching portfolio spans undergraduate, postgraduate, and MBA programs, as well as executive education for industry professionals across various sectors, focusing on integrating resilience and sustainability into strategic decision-making.

Jelena has also advised artisans and SMEs in the food sector on operations and business improvement. She has been an invited speaker at industry events and trade fairs in the UK and internationally and serves as a judge for the Irish Transport and Logistics Awards.

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In the past, Professor Dermot Breslin has worked with small and medium-sized businesses in the engineering, social care and technology sectors. He has also worked with larger organizations including public management, fire & rescue services, and heavy manufacturing industry. At present, Professor Dermot Breslin is a research professor, the Mary McAleese Chair in Connected Leadership at Queen’s Business School, Belfast, and Dean of the BAM Peer Review College.

His research focuses on Leading and Managing Change and has been published in leading international journals including the Organization Studies, Academy of Management Perspectives, Organizational Research Methods, Work Employment and Society, and Human Resource Management Journal. Dermot is the Special Issues and Reviews Editor for Human Resource Management Journal and previously served as Co Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Management Reviews. He is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, and Trustee of the Society for the Advanced of Management Studies. Dermot also sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Studies, International Small Business Journal and the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research.

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