Jonathan Cook
Executive Director and Senior Lecturer
Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria
South Africa
Jonathan Cook is executive director and senior lecturer at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) of the University of Pretoria. He teaches in the areas of leadership, personal development and organisational behaviour, and contributes to the development of coaching approaches, including creating the GIBS web-based career mentor called neXt (www.next.gibs.ac.za).
He is chairman of the Association of African Business Schools and directs a programme called SADCnet, to build capacity in new business schools in the Southern African Development Community.
He is a counselling psychologist and his teaching, research and consulting interests include leadership, executive development, team effectiveness, interpersonal
skills, and self-assessment and peer feedback in leadership development. He is also the owner of Thornhill Associates (Pty) Ltd, which offers online
360-degree feedback services.
After qualifying as a counselling psychologist, he spent ten years with the National Institute for Personnel Research, finally as Head of Assessment and Counseling. His next fifteen years were at the Wits Business School, where he founded the Management Development Unit
and later became director of academic programmes, before joining GIBS in 2004. |
