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.
University of Edinburgh: Curating our narrative
This programme gave us a moment to recognise our commonality with one another and to use this to create a shared narrative for the future of our School. In working with Invisible Grail, we were able to tap into our…
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…
Durham University: developing the Health@Durham strategy
“It’s been amazing, we’ve done more with Invisible Grail than we could’ve otherwise. We ended up with enormous engagement and people gave it tremendous commitment. The programme has exceeded our expectations.” Professor Charlotte ClarkeExecutive Dean (Social Sciences & Health), Durham University…
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…
Navigating the McNamara Trap
Metrics govern so much of how we interpret the success of what is important in higher education. Yet what do we miss if we only focus on the things that can be counted? Drawn from evidence from a QAA (Scotland)…
The power of not knowing
How confident are you to say that you don’t have the answer? Not knowing is powerful. It encourages us to question, rather than assume. It enables us to share expertise and promises collective enquiry. This is why it’s important, and it’s why…
Love in leadership
Is it time to think about leading with emotions that connect – like love – rather than those that disconnect? Leading with love is a choice. Let’s start choosing more of it. Is it finally time to think about leading…
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