Rate My Professor Sarah Fidment

Professor Sarah Fidment serves as Professor of Leadership and Management and Head of Department for People and Performance at the Manchester Metropolitan Business School, part of the Faculty of Business and Law. The department delivers specialist programmes in human resource management, business psychology, and sport business and marketing management, including an AMBA-accredited MBA and Senior People Professional Apprenticeship. As a CIPD-approved centre, it emphasizes academic thinking, research, and industry experience. Fidment's expertise lies in leadership development, inclusive management and leadership excellence, organisational development, people development, creating inclusive cultures, organisational learning, and organisational design. She has designed, developed, and delivered over 50 leadership development interventions for national and international audiences, utilizing group and team-based approaches such as action learning, open space methodologies, and appreciative inquiry. She is a member of the Centre for Decent Work and Productivity, which focuses on labour markets, skills and employability, employee voice, regulation of work, decent work, wellbeing, health at work, labour market transitions, equalities in work, training, education, and business psychology.