News items
Recent activity:
Some recent and upcoming events are shown below. For an archive of past news, click here.
2010
| September | Publication of Fractal Leadership: Emerging Patterns for Transformation. My contribution to the ILA's annual Building Leadership Bridges series. | ||
| July | Leading in a Complex World: New Approaches for Church Leaders. A one-day conference organised by MODEM and Winchester Business School. | ||
| June/July | Transformation and Change: A Non-Linear View. A series of four workshops at the Public Service Management Wales Summer School. Run with my colleague Arthur Turner. | ||
| June | 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. A paper at the European Academy of Management conference in Rome. | ||
| 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. Feedback has been enthusiastic. | ||
| January | A busy month working in schools, including Leading through Change workshops for a Senior Leadership Team and Governing Body. | ||
| 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. | ||
2009
| December | Publication of Organisational Issues, a chapter in Understanding Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care (Palgrave). Co-written with my colleagues Margaret Page from Bristol Business School and Yusuf Ahmad from UWE’s School of Health & Social Care. | ||
| October | After Newton: Emerging Patterns of Leadership. Guest lecture at IEDC, Bled School of Management, Slovenia. Read a summary here. | ||
| September | New Thinking in Management. A new half-day course for professionals and executives affected by the recession. A Bristol Business School Executive Short Course. part of the University of the West of England (UWE)'s government funded Solutions 4 Recession programme. The course runs 5 times over 6 months. | ||
| May | Symposium on From Global to Worldly Leadership. Hosted by the Leadership Trust. My contribution was Fractal Leadership: Emerging Perspectives for Worldly Leaders. | ||
| May | Book review of Barbara Kellerman's Followership (Harvard 2008) published in Leadership. | ||
| April | Conference. Where is Business Ethics? European Business Ethics Network UK conference, hosted by Bristol Centre for Leadership and Organizational Ethics. I presented a paper, Take Me to Your Leader: Towards a Fractal View of Ethical Leadership. | ||
| January | Workshop, Solid Rock or Shifting Sand: Housebuilding Tips for the Wise. Part of Bristol Diocese's Equipped to Grow conference. This looked at attitudes to change. | ||
| January | Leading through Complexity. One-day course, part of Bristol Business School's short course programme. The first time this course has run since the disruption in the global economy - interesting food for thought for the international group of delegates. | ||