Omar Solinger is an associate professor in psychology at the department of Management and Organisation of the VU Amsterdam. He holds a PhD from the Maastricht University (2010).

I am a broad-minded Organizational Behavior scholar with a track record of expertise in Leadership / followership, Organizational Change, Commitment, and theory development. As a psychologist by training I like to study how  Organizational Behavior how large organization-level changes impact, and are impacted by, the behavior of leaders and, in turn, the commitment employees, as followers of these leaders, and as recipients of change initiatives. In the end, leaders and followers can make or break change initiatives. In addition, I usually like to study these cross-level inter-relationships with a new lens (e.g., to look at how commitment, leadership/followership changes over time). While change is infamously difficult to predict, I believe that there are regularities in how change happens (e.g., scenarios, scripts, generic trajectories of development) which we are now only beginning to discover. My research has been exposed in many high-impact journals, including Academy of Management Review, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. Finally, I am also active as Action Editor of Journal of Organizational Behavior and Reviewer on editorial boards of top-tier international journals, including Academy of Management Review, Human Resource Management Review. A recent passion, is to do inter-disciplinary work which seeks to tap from spirituality / morality in the field of theology to gain new ideas for moral leadership. As valorization of these activities, I have hosted a podcast for the next generation on spiritual leadership that discusses leadership issues from the perspective of academia, business, and (christian) spirituality.

As a teacher, I have founded the Leadership and Change Management BA Master programme and still teach two courses in it, I also teach these things to MBA executives, and yearly get fresh Ph.D. students up to speed into the art of theory building. I've also taught this course at Trinity college (Dublin), ESCP Business School (Paris), Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva (Israel), and at FAPESP University of Sao Paolo.

Innovational Incentive Scheme -VENI grant (250.000 Euro's) - 2014-2016

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