Bio

Mostafa Sayyadi is a Management Thinker & Theorist, International Management Consultant, Professor of Practice, and Adjunct Professor. He works with senior business leaders, managers, and staff to develop knowledge and innovation in companies effectively. He is a world authority on leadership and disruptive innovation for his Magic Spark Model and Impact Model. Author of Author of over 950 Research Articles, Case Studies, Teaching Cases, Teaching Notes, Columns, and 17 books and an associate fellow at the Australian Institute of Management, he has been featured in top-flight publications, such as California Management Review Insights (UC Berkeley Haas), Rutgers Business Review (The State University of New Jersey – Rutgers), SAM Advanced Management Journal (Society for Advancement of Management (SAM)/The oldest management society), International Journal of Organizational Analysis (Emerald Publishing Group), Leader to Leader (The University of Pittsburgh), Muma Business Review (The University of South Florida), Muma Case Review (The University of South Florida), The Case Centre (Cranfield University), The European Business Review Journal, Management Consulting Journal, Business Information Review (SAGE Publications), IGI Global, American Management Association (AMA) Quarterly, The European Financial Review Journal, The World Financial Review Journal, Industrial Management (Norcross Georgia), TD Magazine, Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Magazine, and Integral Leadership Review (Scholastica Publishing).

He was nominated for the CMCE Research Award of the Centre for Management Consulting Excellence in the UK for 2024, featured as the author of the Best Blog of SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) in the US for 2020, earned the Best Paper Award of the Academy of Business Research Conference in Canada for 2019, and also earned the Writer Badge and the DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Award of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers in the US for 2021 and 2023 (Lee Iacocca was also an honorary member of The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers at one time). He has also served as an editorial board member of the Journal of Applied Business Research (Swiss Business School), a reviewer for the International Leadership Association, and the Academy of Management Conference (Management Consulting Division), and the Southern Management Association Conference in Virginia, the US.

In recognition of his work with the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian Human Resources Institute, management consulting veteran Mostafa Sayyadi has been recognized for excellence multiple times, including as a Certified Professional in Human Resources of the Australian Human Resources Institute (CAHRI) and a Certified Professional Manager of the Australian Institute of Management (CPMgr). He is enthusiastic about applying AI and commercial drones to business in the future corporate world. In his spare time, he pilots, writes novels for senior managers and business leaders, runs, and does carpentry.