Biography

Ashley is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Assistant Dean (Internationalisation) at Warwick Business School. He is responsible for the school's international education strategy and leads its global teaching and learning provision (more than 55 institutional partnerships in over 25 countries) plus related accreditation aspects. Ashley is also a UK Advisory Group member for CABS's India-UK Dialogue and works closely with global Ministries and Chambers of Commerce to create additional international impact. 

Ashley's research interests centre around High Performance Work Systems for Strategic Luxury Leadership, Organisational Culture and Growth, Creative Learning and Participatory Pedagogies. Ashley has presented his research at many conferences, most recently at The Academy of Management, The British Academy of Management and also as a visiting scholar at Harvard University.  As a former Executive Team member for The British Academy of Management, the largest UK Learned Management Society, he enjoys formulating and implementing strategy and policy. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, an academic member of The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and also a member of The International Centre for Research in Organizational Discourse, Strategy and Change.

Ashley is a National Teaching Fellow, a winner of The Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence and is a Fellow of the Warwick International Higher Education Academy.  He also holds Visiting Professorships at leading global institutions.  Ashley gained a PhD from Cardiff University where he also previously taught on a variety of courses at Cardiff Business School. Ashley teaches on Undergraduate, Warwick MBA and Master's level courses. He is the module leader for the Undergraduate module 'Engaging with International Business: Strategic Luxury Leadership', a module that unites students from Cornell University, Stellenbosch University and The University of New South Wales with Warwick's own. He is also module leader for the Organisational Behaviour Executive variant of the Warwick MBA in London, an editorial board member of the journal, The British Journal of Management, and publishes in and reviews for top-ranked academic journals. He also acts as External Examiner for the MBAs of other Russell Group Universities.

As well as teaching at Warwick and in London, Ashely has taught Organisational Behaviour MBA Modules in Belgium, Chile, China, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Italy and Singapore. He also holds Visiting Professorships at leading global institutions. Ashley has won the WBS award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching. In addition, each year Ashley wins an award for his outstanding contribution to Undergraduate teaching and he also receives the Warwick Business School Outstanding MBA Teacher Award annually.