Key details
Chryssi Tzanetou
Teaching Fellow in Business Management
Chryssi Tzanetou is a Teaching Fellow in Business Management at the Çï¿ûÊÓƵ following a multidisciplinary career in different sectors.
She has extensive teaching experience with both undergraduate, and postgraduate students, having designed and delivered modules pertaining to different facets of leadership, creativity and innovation, management, strategy and entrepreneurship.
Chryssi is passionate about the role of creativity to embrace personal, organisational, and social change, and she specialises in embedding creative practices into teaching to offer students agency to become directors of their own learning and envision the Business Schools of the Future.
As a leadership coach, facilitator and educator she has worked with diverse communities of learners, such as professionals at different stages in their career, entrepreneurs, senior executives, offenders, and young people who are NEET (not in education, employment, or training). She has also designed and delivered executive education for luxury brands, organisations from the corporate and community sectors, start-ups, and SMEs.
Prior to joining the Çï¿ûÊÓƵ, she also specialised in developing research and knowledge exchange programmes on social innovation, focusing on the valuable contribution creativity can make to address social challenges and enhance the student learning and teaching experience.
Before making a career change towards academia, she worked for more than 15 years in the international development sector orchestrating partnerships with the UN, national governments, the European Commission, the World Bank, and major Philanthropic Foundations such as the Open Society Foundations, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. She also led cross-country teams, and delivered cross-cultural capacity building programmes for local civil society organisations in Africa, Asia including Central Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
When she is not in the classroom, she is passionate about telling stories as a multilingual actress, and director. She is also the founder of Leadership Studio – a signature boutique specialising in leadership development through creativity.
Responsibilities within the university
Chryssi leads one Module on Leadership at the postgraduate level, and one on Organisational Decision Making at the undergraduate level.
She is also the designer and leader of new Modules on storytelling for entrepreneurs and strategy and leadership as part of two newly developed undergraduate programmes of study.
Chryssi also leads professional development training on creating safe learning spaces that foster learning, a sense of belonging, and positive wellbeing for staff, and students.
Awards
2024 nominee of the Çï¿ûÊÓƵ Making a Difference Award
Research / Scholarly interests
Chryssi’s creative practice and research are aimed at understanding the impact of applied theatre, mythology and storytelling as the pedagogy of becoming to cultivate the human skills of the future. She is particularly interested in ways the performing arts can help entrepreneurs rehearse leadership transformations to bring about positive change.
Chryssi is also interested in the integration of humanities and the performing arts into business education to envision the Business Schools of the Future that nurture business leaders as active, conscious citizens addressing some of society’s most pressing challenges.
Chryssi is also interested in the intersection between teaching and facilitation to create psychologically safe learning spaces for both students and teachers inside the classroom, and foster an enabling environment for learning, and positive wellbeing.
Recent publications
Co-writer of a book chapter investigating activism and entrepreneurship for change-making (in development).
Presentations
Tzanetou, C., 2024. Next-Gen Business Leaders as Agents of Poiesis: Meta-learning pedagogies through storytelling, mythology, and applied theatre. In: 6th International Conference on Creative Writing, University of Western Macedonia, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 5-8 September 2024.