Working through change

 News items

Recent activity:

Some recent events are shown below.  For an archive of past news, click here.

2009

DecemberPublication 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.

SeptemberNew 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
MayBook review of Barbara Kellerman's Followership (Harvard 2008) published in Leadership.
 AprilConference. 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.  
 JanuaryWorkshop, 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.  
 JanuaryLeading 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.   

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.