Dr John Loonam

Dr. John Loonam is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at DCU Business School. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in European Studies and a Masters of Business Studies from the University of Limerick. He received his PhD in Business Studies from Trinity College, Dublin. He teaches Strategy across Undergraduate, Postgraduate, and Executive programmes.  He was the Director of the DCU Executive MBA programme from 2010-2014.  Over the past decade he has collaborated with Executive Leaders on strategic projects within multinational, large-scale indigenous, small-to-medium sized, semi-state, public sector, and not for profit organisations.  His research has engaged in qualitative (adopting grounded theory, action research, and case study) approaches to inquiry in exploring the topic of Strategic Leadership & Transformation.  Studies have focused on large-scale transformation initiatives, for example Enterprise Systems, Enterprise Social Systems, Digital Transformation, Lean and Agile Transformation, Change Management programmes, and Platform Strategy Transformation, within private and public sector organisations.