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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.

Leading with humanity

Leading with humanity

ByLouise Clifton4 min read
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…
Really looking blog

Really looking

ByLouise Clifton5 min read
‘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,…
Leah Weiss, PhD

Leah Weiss, PhD

ByLouise Clifton11 min read
Lecturer in Management, Stanford Graduate Business School Today’s world doesn’t just ask leaders to develop strategies or establish visions. Today’s leaders need to connect with compassion. Leaders who can connect their purpose to their work, their mission to those of…
Lucy Butters

Lucy Butters

ByLouise Clifton12 min read
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…