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Qualifications - PhD Education Leadership and Management, MEd Education Leadership and Management, B-Tech Education; Higher Education Management Diploma, B-Tech Somatology, NDip Somatology, B-Law and Philosophy
Dr Sadi Seyama is currently a senior lecturer in the Education Leadership and Management department at the University of Johannesburg. Trained in critical management, critical leadership, and Anti-colonial and Postcolonialism, she facilitates Organisational Behaviour (OB) at honours and masters levels through these lenses and shifts students towards the decolonial conception of various aspects of OB.
As a learning facilitator and speaker, Sadi draws on her African matriarchal identity and black feminist pedagogy to inspire decolonised, alternative thinking and affirming academic spaces that foster critical interrogation of diversity, equity, social justice and inclusion.
Her research interests include critical management studies, critical leadership studies, transformation, decolonisation and social justice. Her particular focus is on how managers and leaders exploit power dynamics and their influence on peoples’ organisational behaviour and performance’s meaningful effectiveness. Within critical leadership studies, she explores the dialectics of leadership, critical conscious leadership and the dark side of excessive positivity in leadership. She also holds the Emerald Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Best Paper Award (2022 Conference).