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.
What’s your story?
What are the stories you’ve adopted that shape your professional journey? Helen Teague explores how we create our own narratives and how these can be used to help or hinder our professional growth. She asks: What chapter are you on?…
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…
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…
Leadership for middle managers: Technical University Denmark
What is a lead university and what does it mean to work in one? Anders Jacobsen writes about the experiences of the Human Resources team at the Technical University Denmark (DTU) in realising a vision to embed leadership as the…
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?…
A professional narrative: who we are and what…
What is a professional narrative? How do we know when we have one? And do we even need one? Louise Clifton explores how values, voice and purpose shape our individual and collective narratives, and how these reflect who we are…
Dr Paul Gentle
Academic Director at Invisible Grail Which are the questions that matter most? And what could we achieve when we ask the right questions at the time they’re most needed? Louise Clifton talks to Paul Gentle about why now is the…
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