Milton de Sousa is Associate Professor at Nova School of Business & Economics, where he also served as the director of international development and academic director of CEMS MiM. He co-founded the Leadership for Impact Knowledge Center at the School. His topics focus on the intersection between leadership, organizations, and technology, particularly on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will affect the future of work and management practice. His research is particularly focused on the topic of servant leadership. Recently, as part of a collaboration with Nova SBE, he was the interim Chief Operating and People Officer of Health AI, a Geneva-based organization dedicated to regulating Artificial Intelligence in Health.

In addition to the classes and training he provides on leadership and AI, he is the academic director of several executive programs, including Managing with AI, AI for HR and Talent Management, and Empowering Leaders with AI. This interest in technology and management is a result of his academic and professional journey. He started his career in 1998 as an Electrical and Computer Engineer in the semiconductor industry, also holding various management positions at an international level. With his MBA, he transitioned to the consulting world where he managed various projects in the field of innovation, strategy, and human resources management with large companies. It was during this time that he decided to create his own company dedicated to training and leadership, taking the opportunity to pursue his doctorate in management. He also served as chairman of the Estoril Conferences for several years and was Director of the MBAs at the Rotterdam School of Management. In 2015, he joined Nova SBE to support its international growth.

He has a PhD from the Rotterdam School of Management, an MBA from the University of Bradford, and a degree in Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto. Of his nearly 30-year career, 14 were spent in the Netherlands, where he worked at Philips Semiconductors, Hay Group, and the Rotterdam School of Management.

Milton is an experienced speaker in small and large events, including a TEDx, TV and Radio. He is now co-host of a radio program and podcast on Leadership at Observador.

2014 - PhD in Management from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

2003 - MBA with Distinction from the University of Bradford

1998 - Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto

Servant leadership, Meaning in work and organizations, Complex Adaptive Systems, Innovation 

• Cunha, Miguel Pina E., Hernández-linares, Remedios, De Sousa, Milton, Clegg, Stewart, Rego, Arménio (2022). Evolving conceptions of work-family boundaries: In defense of the family as stakeholder. Humanistic Management Journal, 7, 55-93.
• Sousa, Milton, Cunha, Miguel Pina E., Simpson, Ace V., Giustiniano, Luca, Rego, Arménio, Clegg, Stewart (2022). Servus or pater? How paradoxical intent can qualify leadership: inductions from the Kingdom of Bhutan. Journal of Change Management, 22 (3), 321-353.
• Sousa, Milton, van Dierendonck, Dirk (2021). Serving the need of people: the case for servant leadership against populism. Journal of Change Management, 21 (2), 222-241.
• Cunha, Miguel Pina e, Clegg, Stewart, Costa, Cláudia, Leite, António Pinto, Rego, Arménio, Simpson, Ace Volkmann, Sousa, Marta Oom de, Sousa, Milton (2017). Gemeinschaft in the midst of Gesellschaft? Love as an organizational virtue. Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, 14 (1), 3-21.
• Sousa, Milton, Van Dierendonck, Dirk (2017). Servant leaders as underestimators: Theoretical and practical implications. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 38 (2), 270-283.
• Sousa, Milton, van Dierendonck, Dirk (2017). Servant leadership and the effect of the interaction between humility, action, and hierarchical power on follower engagement. Journal of Business Ethics.
• Van Dierendonck, Dirk, Sousa, Milton, Gunnarsdottir, Sigrun, Bobbio, Andrea, Hakanen, Jari, Verdorfer, Armin Pircher, Duyan, Emin Cihan, Rodriguez-Carvajal, Raquel (2017). The cross-cultural invariance of the Servant Leadership Survey: A comparative study across eight countries. Administrative Sciences, 7 (2), 1-11.
• Cunha, Miguel Pina e, Rego, Arménio, Sousa, Milton (2016). Como podem as organizações gerir paradoxos?. Análise Psicológica, 34 (3), 309-323.
• Sousa, Milton, Van Dierendonck, Dirk (2016). Introducing a short measure of shared servant leadership impacting team performance through team behavioral integration. Frontiers in Psychology, 6 (JAN).
• Van Dierendonck, Dirk, Sousa, Milton (2016). Finding meaning in highly uncertain situations: Servant leadership during change. Monographs in Leadership and Management, 8, 403-424.
• Sousa, Milton, van Dierendonck, Dirk (2014). Servant leadership and engagement in a merge process under high uncertainty. Journal Of Organizational Change Management, 27 (6), 877-899.
• Sousa, Milton, van Dierendonck, Dirk (2010). Knowledge workers, servant leadership and the search for meaning in knowledge-driven organizations. On the Horizon, 18 (3), 230-239.
• Sousa, Milton (2006). The sustainable innovation engine. VINE, 36 (4), 398-405.

• Rodrigues, João Loureiro, de Sousa, Milton (2021). Making waves through education: a method for addressing security grand challenges in educational contexts. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, 487-498.
• Martinez de Castro Pinto Luz, Miguel, Sousa, Milton (2018). Incorporating organizational ambidexterity in the public sector through servant leadership. Practicing Servant Leadership. : Developments in Implementation. van Dierendonck, Dirk, Patterson, Kathleen (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, 231-248.