Dr. Ian Hesketh
Senior Wellbeing Expert
College of Policing
Dr. Ian Hesketh is the Wellbeing Lead at the UK College of Policing and the Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) for the National Police Wellbeing Service in the UK. Ian also supports the National Forum for Health and Wellbeing at Manchester University Alliance Business School.
He is an Honorary Fellow at Durham University Business School and a Visiting Fellow at the Open University Business School. He holds a PhD in Management and Social Psychology and an MBA from Lancaster University.
His research interests are centered on wellbeing, resilience, and transformation in the context of policing, and most notably he introduced the concept and phenomenon of Leaveism to explain human behaviors associated with workplace workload and stress. In 2012 his article on Transforming Leadership was voted one of the top 5 Management Articles by the Chartered Management Institute, and in 2020 he was the recipient of a Literati Award from Emerald for an Outstanding Paper for research on Psychological Screening in Emergency Service Responders. Ian is a Member of the Society for Education and Training, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
