Since 2012 the Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership in Business has supported the development of leadership education with the endowment of a research chair. Dr. Turner has held the chair since 2017.
Nick Turner, Distinguished Research Chair in Advanced Business Leadership
Healthy work is the research theme that Dr. Nick Turner, PhD explores as the Distinguished Research Chair in Advanced Business Leadership with the Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership in Business (CCAL). Healthy work is work that promotes psychological well-being and physical safety. Many factors come together to create healthy work including leadership, work design and occupational health and safety. His recent work focuses on the relationship between leadership and safety, young workers and safety, and the relationship between workplace injuries and mental health.
An accomplished scholar, Turner has many journal articles published. Turner has also published pieces in The Conversation Canada. He is also an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, and a member of the O'Brien Institute for Public Health.
CCAL Leadership Research Grants
Validation of a leadership self-assessment tool for medicine
Recipient: Joshua Bourdage
Year Awarded: 2017
What Guides Corporate Resilience?
Recipient: Mark Anderson
Year Awarded: 2017
Passing the Baton: Opportunity recognition in family businesses – the Alberta Story
Recipient: Alice de Koning
Year Awarded: 2018
Understanding the evolving nature of women in business, women in leadership & women in entrepreneurship: a series of case studies
Recipient: Rosalynn Peschl
Year Awarded: 2018
Poverty and Leadership Role Occupancy: A big data examination of the influences of depression, race and gender
Recipient: Justin Weinhardt, Aidan Dumaisnil
Year Awarded: 2019
A Meta-Analytic Review of Entrepreneurial Leadership Research
Recipient: Mohammad Keyhani, Piers Steel
Year Awarded: 2019
Medical Leadership Changes in Response to a Crisis
Recipient: Jaana Woiceshyn
Year Awarded: 2020
Literary imagination and Leadership: Lessons from the classroom
Recipient: Naor Cohen
Year Awarded: 2020