Elisabeth Kelan

Elisabeth Kelan is a German-British academic, executive, researcher and writer and a leading scholar on gender, generations and leadership in organizations. She coined the term gender fatigue which refers to organisations difficulties to combat gender discrimination despite recognising its existence. Kelan has presented her research at various international institutions and collaborated with numerous organisations.

She is a professor of leadership and organisation at Essex Business School and director of the International Centre for Women Leaders at Cranfield School of Management. She writes for Routledge, at the journal Gender, Work and Organization and the British Journal of Management. In 2017, she was voted one of the Most Influential Thinkers by Human Resources Magazine in 2017.