News items
Some recent events are shown below. For an archive of past news, click here.
2011
December
Embracing Chaos. A lecture, based on my Grove booklet exploring leadership insights from complexity theory. Ripon College, Cuddesdon. 8 December. Visit the college website here.
October
International Leadership Association 13th Annual Global Conference. London. I took part in two panel presentations:
- Beyond Metaphor: Practical Leadership Implications of Complexity Theory. With Sandra Jones & Heather Davis from RMIT, Australia, David Holzmer from Union Institute & University, USA, and Julie Davies from the Association of Business Schools, UK. Find out more here.
- Attachment: Implications of New Developments for Leadership, Followership and Organizational Change. With Tracey Manning from the University of Maryland, USA, and Peter Robertson from Human Insight, Netherlands. Find out more here.
Fractal Leadership and Creative Church Leadership. Two sessions in the inaugural core module of the Masters course, Christian Approaches to Leadership. At Sarum College, validated by the University of Winchester. Read about the Masters here.
Crossing the Threshold: Explorations in Intended and Unintended Leadership. A paper at the MODEM Conference, Leading Across Boundaries, at Sarum College. The paper is based on the films Invictus and Made in Dagenham. Read a summary here. Visit the conference web page here.
Environmental Technologies - Route to Market or Road to Ruin? A symposium organised by Bristol Business School at the 2011 UK Environmental Trade Show. Find out more here.
July
Publication of Embracing Chaos: Leadership Insights from Complexity Theory. The fourth booklet in Grove Books' Leadership Series. You can order a copy on the Grove Books website.
June
United Reformed Church (URC) Synod consultation. Facilitating an awayday in London.
May
RenewableUK HR Forum. I ran a series of workshops on agile leadership at this event, hosted by RWE Npower Renewables. Find out more here.
February
Publication of Fractal Leadership: Emerging Patterns for Transformation. My contribution to the International Leadership Association's annual Building Leadership Bridges series. This seeks to capture ‘the best contemporary thinking about leadership today from a diverse range of scholars, practitioners, and educators working in the field of leadership around the world’.
January
Meet the World: Leadership Talks on Post-Crisis Leadership. De Baak, Noordwijk, Netherlands. I led a workshop at this thought-provoking event on Post-Newtonian Leadership. It was great to share a platform with colleagues including Peter Robertson of Human Insight and Sharon Turnbull of the Leadership Trust. You can find further details on De Baak's website.
2010
July
Leading in a Complex World: New Approaches for Church Leaders. A one-day conference organised by MODEM and Winchester Business School. "Enjoyable", "thought provoking" and "encouraging" were three comments.
June
Transformation and Change: A Non-Linear View. Public Service Management Wales Summer School, Lampeter. A series of 4 innovative workshops with my colleague, Arthur Turner. These offered an alternative to the prevailing Western view of leadership and change, which is one of cause and effect. You can see a video of one of the workshops via the Resources page.
Leading through Complexity Executive Short Course for a Strategic Health Authority's Clinical Fellows' programme.
Leading in a Post-Newtonian World workshop for nexusbristol.
May
Post-Newtonian Leadership. European Academy of Management Conference, Rome. I presented this paper as part of the Worldly Leadership track. It seeks to move leadership beyond an implicit 'cause and effect' worldview to a world of emergence and self-organization. You can read an abstract here.
March
Four Leadership Forums for the Church of Scotland, in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Oban. I co-led these with my MODEM colleague, Richard Fox.
January
Embracing Chaos: Learning from Cardiac Surgery and Chernobyl. Workshop for nexusbristol, a new forum for leaders working to create better outcomes for children and young people in Bristol. We explored where people find security in times of change. Further details about nexusbristol here.
A busy month working in schools, including Leading through Change workshops for a Senior Leadership Team and Governing Body.