Ruth Sealy

Ruth Sealy is a Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. Ruth’s work has focused on boardroom composition and dynamics for 15 years. From 2007-2017 she provided data for the UK government-sponsored Female FTSE Report and the Lord Davies Review into Women on Boards, and contributed to the creation and enactment of the UK’s women on board policy, also feeding into European Commission work on the same. She collaborated with the UK’s Financial Reporting Council on changes to the UK’s Code of Governance regarding diversity policies and board evaluation as well as non-financial narrative reporting and behavioural board dynamics. As an organizational psychologist, her research takes micro- and meso-level approaches, as a pragmatist she focuses on the nuanced relationships between actors and their environments, including the socio-cognitive dynamics of interactions. Journal publications include: Corporate Governance: International Review; Leadership Quarterly; Business Ethics Quarterly; British Journal of Management; Human Resource Management Journal.