James Warn

Dr James Warn is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Business at UNSW Canberra, University of New South Wales. An experienced researcher, academic, and consultant, he brings expertise in organizational psychology to his work, maintaining a strategic orientation with practical focus. Warn is a registered psychologist and a Member of the Australian Psychological Society, having formerly chaired the ACT Section of its College of Organisational Psychologists. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, an accredited facilitator in leadership development tools and psychological testing for organizations, and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Defence Leadership, Australian Defence College. His teaching emphasizes leadership and organizational behaviour, fostering lifelong learning principles.

Warn's research addresses leadership and culture in complex situations, including collaborations with the Centre for Studies in Leadership at the University of Guelph. Core interests span strategic leadership amid complexity and uncertainty, military leadership, indigenous leadership, immigrant entrepreneurship, transformational leadership, knowledge management, holistic road safety frameworks, driver attitudes and behaviours, plagiarism in higher education, leadership in project management, intangibles in commercialisation, workplace stress and job satisfaction, quality measurement in higher education, learned helplessness, and skilled personnel turnover. He has earned the UNSW@ADFA Teaching Excellence Award, an Emerald Highly Commended Paper by Literati Network Awards for Excellence, and a High Commendation for Public Sector Evaluation from the Australasian Evaluation Society. Key publications include the book Leadership Challenges from the Edge of Experience: Shackleton's Leadership Principles to Serve, Lead and Excel (2019, with M. Cox); Between Two Worlds: Indigenous Leaders Exercising Influence and Working across Boundaries (2016, with J. Stewart, Australian Journal of Public Administration); Impacts on Food Policy from Traditional and Social Media Framing of Moral Outrage and Cultural Stereotypes (2020, with V. Small, Agriculture and Human Values); Break-out Strategies of Chinese Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Australia (2019, with Y. Wang, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research); Plagiarism Software: No Magic Bullet! (2006, Higher Education Research and Development); and Towards a Holistic Framework for Road Safety in Australia (2008, with P.J. Tranter and M. May, Journal of Transport Geography).