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 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…
London Metropolitan University: Bringing the Social Professions Together…
One of the best parts is that colleagues are fully-focused on the sessions. Working online really helps us build wholehearted trust in our team to work for the good of the students.”Kelly Cooper, Deputy Dean of the School of Social…
Playfulness at work: fun, vexing, helpful?
Seeing off a voice of doubt, Paul Gentle makes the case that intentional use of play at work can unlock greater collaboration and imagination, and suggests three ways you can do this with your own team. What better venture is…
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…
Cultural Glue
What comes to mind when you think about cultural glue at work? It’s what bonds you to others, keeping you connected even when exploring different directions, and always linked by a common thread. Paul Gentle and Louise Clifton reflected back…
What do you want to be when you…
The inside out approach – let’s stop looking around us for the answers but ask ourselves questions that will help us understand who we are and how we can find steadiness and courage in all that we do. When I…
Leading with humanity
We’re all human, but is humanity in leadership a given? Particularly when we’re stretched, recognising and prioritising the things that speak to our humanity – purpose, care and curiosity – can help keep us grounded, keep us going, and keep…
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