Building a better world through higher education
We work with you to establish leadership cultures that connect people’s hearts and minds with purpose and action.
Time for something different
We create experiential and imaginative approaches to professional development in universities: workshops, development programmes and coaching for Higher Education leaders.
We’re here to support people to lead with courage and humanity. To choose new ways to connect and collaborate. To bring out the best in one another and our institutions, and build a better world.
What’s possible if we think and work differently?
If we’re braver and more creative?
In a world that asks for innovation and radical solutions to big problems, how we work, lead and connect with one another, matters. In partnership with you, we design and facilitate experiences that bring people together, inspire collective, purposeful action and make change happen.
Why teaching and learning needs a narrative
Teaching and learning are integral to the wider student experience, but without a clear vision and narrative these activities can feel disjointed for those that lead and live them. Graham Holden examines how we can use narrative to create a…
Improve your Organisational Culture through discovering what drives…
RESOURCE: Collaborative Working Survey This survey is a diagnostic tool to take the pulse of the collaborative effort in a working team. It diagnoses what is going well in addition to identifying areas where tensions exist. Tensions should be explored…
Leadership in Culturally Significant Times
When we can no longer lean on predictability and predictive analysis, we need courage to face ambiguity, trust in ourselves and others, boldness in business continuity and – most poignantly – cultural leadership.
From A to Z: writing that connects
What we say and do are regularly explored as ways we can improve our leadership. But what about what we write? How often do we think about the words that we choose to connect with others? Gathering together 25 insights…
Wearing the shoes of others
If we could step into someone else’s shoes and see the world through their eyes, would we make different decisions? Might we be better equipped to improve widening participation or eliminate the attainment gap? Stories invite us to see the…
Navigating the McNamara Trap
Metrics govern so much of how we interpret the success of what is important in higher education. Yet what do we miss if we only focus on the things that can be counted? Drawn from evidence from a QAA (Scotland)…
It’s a Mentor-full world!
The benefits of mentoring are widely accepted. Gifting your experience and expertise to another can be both professionally rewarding and personally satisfying. But is there more to it than that? Paul Gentle explores the powerful synergy that can evolve from…
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