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.
Reimagined: Chasing the unicorn – restoring elusive conversations
Meetings, emails, packed agendas: whether online or in the office, our days at work are full. Yet so much of what we do in these spaces relies on our ability to connect – negotiate, empathise, deliberate – with others. So…
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…
Reimagined: Purposeful Leadership, now or never?
Purpose is in our nature. So why do we often forget how important it can be to our professional lives? When we’re motivated by what is right and when we can see how our work connects with a purpose greater…
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…
Distraction: Evil or Art?
Distraction. A word we associate with falling behind; clock ticking; unfocused thoughts. But what about the unexpected joys and unforeseen creativity it can bring? And the role of the people who trigger it in the first place? Paul Gentle explores.…
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 Dragon Economies: Is Higher Education in South…
The world is changing, rapidly. As global mindsets shift and we face a new decade, are the Dragon Economies still breathing fire? Travelling through Hong Kong and Singapore this autumn, Paul Gentle finds out. Your perceptions of how universities work…
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