Our Vision & Purpose
…and openness where greater creativity becomes possible. Together, we produce effective results from the power that authentic communication and action posses. Courage We look further ahead than most dare to,…
Leading like Madiba: Leadership lessons from Nelson Mandela
…the old fashioned idea of leadership through service. The whole human race, we could say, desperately needs these servant-leaders who really attend to others and are beacons of hope in…
Our Clients
…operate in a global business environment where an ability to understand complex problems is vital. Read more about the Global Leadership Programme. In 2009, we worked with Shell to introduce…
Activism or Service: What kind of leadership does our world need right now?
…time he comes home and shares a story about the latest curriculum change, cut in funding or school inspection process. More often than not I fly into some tirade about…
5 Business Partner strategies to deal with competing agendas
…recognise that sentiment — stuck in the middle! Of course, you are not likely to be between fools or jokers, rather find yourself caught between two stakeholders with competing, maybe…
HSBC Global Next Generation Leadership Programme
…create a truly transformational programme for their brightest and best. Challenge We were asked to create a ‘learn through doing’ experience which would give leaders genuine ‘edge of comfort zone’…
Don’t just do something, sit there! How multi-tasking is a form of ‘absenting’
…GPF. I wasn’t let down. The messages were simple, backed up by latest neuro-scientific thinking and for me at least, a real wake up call: The quality of our attention…
TESCO Energy Champions
With 620 stores nationwide, Tesco has a variety of variables to manage when it comes to the effective use of energy resources. The company’s strategy thus far has been to…
How to generate collective power through the sheer act of listening
…do at work and beyond work. Here is the fourth in our series of six. During the GPF we heard many ‘stories from the field’ of real people achieving transformational…
Changing the rules of the game: Culture
…which we swim can be as invisible to us as the water to the fish. The “rules” – real and self-created – may have served us well and may still…
Meeting life where it is
Our summer newsletter opened with the sentence “‘Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous’ is the new business norm.” So what does it take to deal with – even to thrive –…
Catalysing an evolutionary shift
To create the conditions in which people change systems that are causing environmental damage and/or social inequity (or indeed, generate greater environmental and societal health) individuals need to know how…