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.
How kind are your words?
Kindness is as essential to our writing as the letters we type, and this is as true for higher education as it is for any sector. Here’s why. By Jamie Jauncey Kindness in language is the recognition that no matter…
How to connect beliefs and values with writing…
Strategy isn’t just facts, figures and mission statements. It encompasses the breadth and depth of the people who lead and live it. Drawing on two fictional universities facing real-life challenges, Paul Gentle examines how working with the grain can connect…
Only connect – why narrative is even more…
Narrative is powerful. In learning and teaching we can use it to link one activity to another, giving purpose and sense of direction. While we find ourselves in an online world, Graham Holden reflects on how we can use use narrative…
The power of not knowing
How confident are you to say that you don’t have the answer? Not knowing is powerful. It encourages us to question, rather than assume. It enables us to share expertise and promises collective enquiry. This is why it’s important, and it’s why…
Lucy Butters
Cultural Intelligence expert ‘It always comes back to people and nurturing their capability’. This is the motivation for Lucy Butters, a Cultural Intelligence coach and facilitator. But what does it mean to be ‘culturally intelligent’ and what could a culturally…
Why universities are long-running dramas
By Alan Pollock There is, proverbially, scarcely a working actor who did not at some point work on The Bill. The same is almost as true for writers! For a decade I contributed episodes to the long-running ITV police drama,…
Resilience: The secret sauce
Resilience is robustness and agility. It’s what it takes to thrive, not just survive. Sound familiar? Having read dozens of articles on organisational resilience, it always seems to come back to that same mantra. Yet, isn’t there something missing? Where…
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