Dr Ree Jordan
Dr

Ree Jordan

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Background

Ree's research focuses on organisational outliers (exceptions to the norm) and headliners (sources of disproportionate influence), exploring the people, communities, behaviours, decisions, and emerging technologies that challenge prevailing assumptions and exert influence beyond what might ordinarily be expected.

Her research encompasses workplace mavericks, beneficial non-conformity and positive deviance; Indigenous leadership and resilient communities; high-impact leadership behaviours, both constructive and destructive; and judgement and decision-making in complex and extreme contexts, including the interaction of heuristics and agentic/generative AI.

Collectively, this work seeks to understand how exceptional forms of influence can drive innovation, resilience, adaptation, disruption, and change.

Drawing on more than 20 years of professional experience in leadership and organisational change, Ree combines rigorous scholarship with practical application. Her research is characterised by strong engagement with industry, government, Indigenous communities, and not-for-profit organisations, ensuring that academic insights are translated into meaningful outcomes for organisations and communities.

Availability

Dr Ree Jordan is:
Not available for supervision

Fields of research

Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services Organisational behaviour

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Graduate Certificate, University of Melbourne
  • Bachelor, Griffith University
  • Masters (Research), Monash University
  • Postgraduate Diploma, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Workplace Mavericks, Beneficial Non-Conformity and Positive Deviance

    Research examining individuals who constructively challenge conventional thinking and practice within organisations. This work explores workplace mavericks, beneficial non-conformity, positive deviance, innovation, entrepreneurship, and game-changing behaviour, with a focus on how organisations can harness unconventional perspectives to enhance adaptation, innovation, and performance.

  • Leadership, Influence and Organisational Impact

    Research exploring how leadership behaviours and influence shape organisational outcomes. This includes both constructive and destructive leadership, leadership power and influence, organisational politics, group dynamics, and the conditions under which high-impact behaviours contribute to innovation, adaptation, disruption, or failure.

  • Indigenous Leadership and Resilient Communities

    Research examining the leadership, influence, and contributions of Indigenous peoples, particularly Indigenous women, in building resilient communities. This work explores leadership practices, community resilience, collective action, Indigenous knowledge systems, and the factors that support positive social, environmental, and organisational outcomes.

  • Judgement, Decision-Making and Emerging Technologies

    Research exploring judgement and decision-making in complex and extreme contexts. Areas of interest include heuristics, high-consequence decision-making, human judgement, and the interaction between people and emerging technologies, including agentic and generative artificial intelligence.

Search Professor Ree Jordan’s works on UQ eSpace

41 works between 0026 and 2026
All (41) Journal Article (7) Other Outputs (3) Conference Publication (21) Book Chapter (9) Newspaper Article (1)

41 - 41 of 41 works

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Journal Article

Wayfinding together: Leadership as light, wānanga as vessel

Spiller, Chellie, Hibbens, Mitchell, Jordan, Ree, Newton, Pania, Leslie, Lana, Reese Mitchell, Cindy and Short, Natasha (0026). Wayfinding together: Leadership as light, wānanga as vessel. Ochre papers: The Dilin Duwa dialogues reflections. (pp. 15-18) Melbourne Business School: Dilin Duwa Centre for Indigenous Business Leadership, University of Melbourne.

Wayfinding together: Leadership as light, wānanga as vessel

Current funding

  • 2025 - 2028
    Amplifying leadership and voices of Indigenous women environmental rangers
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant

Availability

Dr Ree Jordan is:
Not available for supervision

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The role of leader storytelling in organisational change

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Richard O'Quinn

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Asian-Australian Leaders' Ascension to Top Management Teams and their Contributon to Organisational Resilience

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Victor Callan

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Is AI Really Sharing Knowledge? A Look into Human-Machine Interaction

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Ali Intezari

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Beyond mining: Exploring Indigenous communities transiton to the tourism sector

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Lisa Ruhanen

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Interconnectedness and Complexity of Value Creation with Dialogical-Paradoxical Transformation: Festival Literacy in Australia and Indonesia

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Ali Intezari

Completed supervision

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