In my experience, there is a significant difference between leading an organisation and leading a leadership team well. This case study shows how deep, system‑psychodynamic team coaching enabled a senior leadership team to work with complexity, share authority, reduce isolation, and lead ambitious cultural and strategic change with greater integrity and impact.
This article is part of my ongoing series about heroes—not the kind celebrated for titles or platforms, but those whose ethical courage shows up when systems fail.
It follows my earlier piece about David Turner, and continues my reflection on what it really means to live—and lead—according to the Principles of Public Life: integrity, accountability, openness, respect, and stewardship.
This piece centres on Tricia, a tireless campaigner, professional, and friend, whose life has repeatedly demonstrated that ethics are not abstract—they are practiced, often quietly, often at personal cost.
Are your staff, or partners heading towards burn out? Are you seeing significant signs of 'Strain Zone' fatigue building up? In this blog i share the insights about being Strategic about your Time and Energy.
In my experience there’s a big difference between having a strategy and actually ‘being strategic’. This case case study shows how I’ve helped an organisation make that difference, with the help of my Time & Energy Auditing tools.
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Hybrid meetings are still being done badly — not because the technology isn’t there, but because the imagination hasn’t caught up. This article argues that truly inclusive hybrid meetings, designed to work for disabled colleagues and remote participants, are not a compromise but a route to better leadership, better decisions, and better use of everyone’s intelligence.
Read MoreHybrid Working is a game changer for culture change in the future of workplaces. This article explains a really useful tool for successful facilitation of deeply difficult issues involving culture change. It offers a way of ‘re-planning your strategy’ and ‘analysing how things go off piste’, A healthy learning culture can be built using this tool.
Read MoreHeroic Leadership is often part of quiet leadership, very powerful, because of how rooted, grounded and connected it is. In this article you can meet my hero (recently deceased) and contemplate who are your role models.
Read MoreCarnegie is a leading social research organisation, which aims to bring better collective wellbeing to everybody in the UK and Ireland. With the support of PlacesWork, they are now able to operate fully with hybrid working patterns and connect with people both nationally and locally through hybrid meetings.
Read MoreThis is the third case study in a series on organisations who have built their hybrid format capacity with us we are showcasing how organisations can become more accessible, more able to serve their customers. All businesses regardless of sector or size can benefit from how hybrid format and hybrid working patterns enable quality delivery for all.
Read MoreNeighbourhood Networks is the fourth case study in a series on organisations who have built their hybrid format capacity with us. In these case studies we showcase how all businesses regardless of sector and size can benefit from the hybrid format and hybrid working patterns to become more accessible, more able to serve their customers and enable quality delivery for all.
Read MoreScottish Renewables (SR) is the trade association that enables all of the companies and industry that are in the renewables industries, to collaborate, to form agreements and to respond to government policy.
This blog tells the story of this piece of capacity building because it has many lessons for other businesses.
Read MoreHybrid Meetings are here to stay. Here are my top 10 tips for running effective Hybrid Meetings. This comes from all of my courses, research and consultancy.
Read MoreRight now most organisations are thinking ‘What kit do we need in the rooms’. Our tips in this article address questions about audio, visual connection, room layout,, cables and how humans need to connect in all meetings.
Read MoreWhy Hybrid Meetings reflect the principles of Sustainability, Equity and Simplicity. Quakers are often seen as a bit of a mystery. Well this article de-mystifies both.
Read More‘Tactics and Tips for Chairing Board and Senior Management Leadership Meetings’. This blog reflects the wisdom, experiences and insights from Directors of many companies that we have been in conversation with through the Institute of Directors.
Read MoreThis article gives practical advice on how to run blended meeting environments well, where some people are face to face, and others are joining remotely. This is based on pilots and research me and my associates have been doing in the voluntary and the government sector during 2021.
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