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.
Kindness at work: part one
Kindness is something we all connect with, deeply; it’s in our bones. Yet at work, how do we make room for it when other demands on our time and head-space crowd in? Can we design more kindness into our working lives?…
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…
University College Birmingham: Designing the future of corporate…
Working with Invisible Grail we were able to take people to a space where we could explore their unique leadership approach, grow their confidence and apply this to imagining and creating the future of corporate services for the University.”Professor Michael…
Do you speak Acabusinish?
How to avoid the trappings of de-facto university language. Tom Scott, writer and university lecturer, examines the rise of Acabusinish, the unlovely hybrid of academic jargon and management speak. In this article, issues regarding approaches to written communication typically characterising…
Where are we now? Higher education, refugees and…
Talent and potential aren’t linked to where we’re born. Each of us has the ability to learn and grow given the right support. So how can higher education institutions help young people from refugee or asylum seeking backgrounds flourish in…
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…
Really looking
‘A static body of knowledge on the shelf’ is how we might perceive the Humanities. But if we were to really look and examine the questions they confront us with, would we recognise this definition? Or would it encourage us,…
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