--- title: Cranfield Executive Development Blog | Dr Jutta Tobias description: "Senior Lecturer\nLeading Complex Change\nCranfield School of Management\n\nJutta Tobias, PhD, is a social psychologist with 20 years of work experience in organisational development and capacity-building in six countries on three continents. \n\nJutta researches and teaches personal development, mindfulness, and leadership in collaboration with executive students and in a variety of in-company programmes. She has received several Cranfield University Research and Teaching Awards, for example for her innovative work incorporating mindfulness into academic and executive education and introducing thousands of senior managers and postgraduate students to mindfulness.\n\nDr Tobias regularly speaks and advises on workplace mindfulness and leadership, e.g. in the UK House of Commons, Cabinet Office, and the Department of Health. She serves as an expert advisor to the “Mindful Nation UK” initiative, a think tank with bipartisan sponsorship from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness in the UK Parliament. \n\nJutta’s work has been published in a number of academic journals and is featured widely including in the Financial Times, The Sunday Times, the Huffington Post, on the BBC World Service, and in the Swiss TV documentary “The Mindful Revolution”. \n\nJutta also holds a psychotherapeutic counselling qualification from the University of Cambridge.\n\nIn her free time, she pushes her ability to stop talking and listen more by dancing as a Follow in all sorts of Swing styles." --- [![Marques-SoM](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/Marques-SoM.png?width=85&name=Marques-SoM.png)](https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/som)   - [Home](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge) - Featured - [CEO Summit](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/ceo-summit-2021) - Categories - [Changing World of Work](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/changing-world-of-work) - 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