Dr. Femke Geijsel has been an associate professor of transformational school leadership since 2022. Her research activities focus on school development and school improvement, policy implementation and impact within school organization, vision development, strategic innovation, leadership for learning and management in educational organizations. Femke supervises various PhD students and postdocs and is a member of the board of the Policy and Organization division of the Association for Educational Research.
She is academic director of the executive Master of Management in Education at TIAS and also lecturer in the executive Master of Public & Non-profit Management (together with Dr. Eelco van Hout). She develops in-company courses, together with educational organizations and administrative communities. Her research and education activities focus on strengthening analytical and creative capacity among educational managers in balance with professional and administrative governance. She combines her work for TIAS with supporting scientific research and consultancy activities for educational administrators and various administrative and supervisory activities; (as an independent entrepreneur). She contributes to science and educational management finding each other in strategically constructive and creative ways.