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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.

On curiosity

On curiosity

ByPaul Gentle3 min read
Who are the people that ignite curiosity in you, and in your leadership practice? Through the lens of higher education, Paul Gentle reflects on the moments where curiosity has inspired him to take a new and different path. Here’s what…
Milky Way - The ABC of Space blog, a conversation between Stuart Delves and Professor James Dunlop

The ABC of Space

ByLouise Clifton4 min read
In conversation with Professor James Dunlop, Stuart Delves discovers how a metaphor can be used to decipher infinite ideas and mathematical complexities (and secure a healthy research funding packet to boot.) Apart from anything else, he’s a dab hand at…
It’s a Mentor-full world!

It’s a Mentor-full world!

ByPaul Gentle5 min read
The benefits of mentoring are widely accepted. Gifting your experience and expertise to another can be both professionally rewarding and personally satisfying. But is there more to it than that? Paul Gentle explores the powerful synergy that can evolve from…