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 scholar of Organizational Behavior 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 personal and organizational transformation is produced by a combination of leadership and commitment on the part of followers in this process. I believe that a committed team is a sweetspot for leadership and, ultimately for producing positive organizational outcomes in a sustainable way. I am fascinated by how changes unfolds over time. Leadership is a dynamic and complex phenomenon, much like a dance between a leader and a follower. There are two perspectives — leader and follower — that do not necessarily align. Yet in the unity of their alignment lies enormous potential. My research has been exposed in many high-impact journals, including Academy of Management Review (3x), Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. Finally, I have also served as Action Editor to Journal of Organizational Behavior (2022-2025) and act as reviewer on editorial boards of Academy of Management Review and 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 International Project Management and Theory Building skills to MBA executives, and yearly get fresh Ph.D. students up to speed into the art of theory building. I've also taught theory building skills 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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