Chryssi Tzanetou MA, MSc, BA

Chryssi Tzanetou is a Teaching Fellow in Business Management at the University of Greenwich 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 University of Greenwich, 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.