Working through change

2008

 
December

Appointed a Lay Canon of Bristol Cathedral.

November

Lecturing on People in Organisations, part of the Consortium for Professional Development in Aerospace Masters programme. 

October

Start of a work-based learning mentoring assignment.

Another refreshing change: asked to facilitate a team workshop for a regional non-profit.

June

One-day course, Leading through Complexity, run for the first time, part of Bristol Business School's short course programme.

May

Team development assignment successfully completed with a UK primary school - a refreshing change from work in the corporate sphere.

April

Conference presentation on Wholeness at Work, Cambridge UK.

March

Conference presentation on Organization and Belief Systems, Tampa FL.

February

Three chapter in How to Become a Creative Church Leader, published by Canterbury Press.

Start of a 9-month leadership mentoring assignment.

January

Two articles in Leadership: The Key Concepts, published by Routledge.


2007

December

Conference presentation on The Ecological Model: Sustaining Creativity and Innovation at Gulf Marketing Forum, Doha, Qatar.

September  

Presentation at annual SSCE conference at Oxford. Taking Control?  A View from the Glasshouse.The conference theme was The Ideology of Managerialism in Church, Politics and Society. The paper examines the paradox of control from the perspective of complexity theory.

 July

The Prairie and the Rainforest: Ecologies for Sustaining Organisational Change published in Business Leadership Review.

July

Presentation at 5th Critical Management Studies conference at Manchester Business School.  Having Faith in Management: Deluded, Dangerous or Doable?

June

Gimme Five! published: a chapter in the book John Adair: Fundamentals of Leadership.  Subtitled 'Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Leadership', the editors describe it as comparing the 'unlikely bedfellows' of the Harvard Business Review and the Anglican Ordinal.

May

Presentation to FTSE250 company senior management conference on behalf of Bristol Business School. Brief to speak on 'out of the box' leadership leads to talk on Leadership: Lessons from the Salmon.

February

Seminar at Bristol Business School.  The Prairie and the Rainforest: Ecologies for Sustaining Organisational Change.

JanuaryReview article published covering six books on leadership.

2006

SeptemberMODEM conference on Christian Leadership through Transition and Change, held at Sheffield. Presentation on Developing an Ecology for Sustainable Church Leadership, responding positively to paper by Malcom Grundy, Director of Foundation for Church Leadership. Other presenters include Mary Chapman, Chief Executive of Chartered Management Institute and Su Morgan, HR Director of Archbishops' Council.
MaySeminar on leadership and change for primary school headteachers. Venturing into a new arena - ideas well received.
MarchConference on Past, Present and Future at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Presentation on Perspectives on Leadership.
MarchTake part in Sustainability Roundtable at INSEAD, Fontainebleau. Host session on cooperation between industry and NGOs with Lafarge and WWF.

2005

 December

Presentation at 4th international Studying Leadership conference at Lancaster University Management School: Change or Decay? Renewing the Individual and the Corporation.

 December

Presentation at Exeter Centre for Leadership Studies Professional Network conference.  Diversity in Leadership Teams: New Perspectives, Practical Applications.

 November

Publication of Serenity, Courage and Wisdom; Changing Competencies for Leadership in Business Ethics: European Review.

 September

Elected to MODEM Leadership Committee at AGM at Chartered Management Institute, London. 

 September

Take part in John Adair colloquium at St George's Hosue, Windsor.  Presentation on Gimme Five! Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Leadership.

2004

 December

Presentation at 3rd international Studying Leadership conference at Exeter University Centre for Leadership Studies: Serenity, Courage and Wisdom: Changing Competencies for Leadership.