Thinking clearly under pressure – 4th March, 2015 – Deloitte Academy 26 fortunate attendees heard Mike Carson and Chris Recchia discuss different perspectives on “Thinking Clearly Under Pressure” and leadership across the Premier League, the Armed Forces and Industry. Mike Carson – author of ‘The Manager – Inside the Minds of Football’s Leaders’ and Partner […]
Leadership in the new working environment
In the summer members of the Leaders Club were fortunate to spend an evening with Raja Saggi at the unique and impressive Google Headquarters in London. We asked Raja, a Founding Member of the Leaders Club to get out his crystal ball to predict how he saw the next 5 years from his own personal […]
Why The Leaders Club?
Why do we so many businesses pay lip service to training and development? Not true? Well why then when times get tough it is the first thing to be canned from the corporate budget? “They can learn on the job”. “Chuck them in at the deep end”. “It will toughen them up”. All the excuses […]
Culture and Leadership
I have spent 25 years with over 7,000 people in rooms in 25 countries around the globe introducing and motivating people towards an approach to leadership that unlocks the potential of people in an organisation and removes the barriers to development. Like all good approaches to leadership, it’s based on what helps people to achieve […]
The Leaders Club – Pulford
Thursday 28th November the Leaders Club had a most enjoyable evening at the RAF Club hosted by a founder member of the Leaders Club, Air Chief Marshall Sir Andrew Pulford, Chief of the Air Staff. Sir Andrew was joined by his wife Lady (Nicky) Pulford and it was good to see so many members bring […]
Normative Leadership
Back in November 2012 Matthew Taylor, CEO of the RSA joined us for the second time to talk about what he was calling Normative Leadership. It sparked debate and discussion which continued amongst the members over drinks. This was an unfinished conversation and so Matthew agreed to meet me, the outcome of which is this […]
Andy Salmon Event – Slides
Andy has very kindly supplied the slides from his recent event.
Which Leadership model now?
Given what I do for a living I found John Adair’s comments published in a recent ILM publication of particular interest. “The immense industry which has grown up around leadership is now estimated to be worth $50bn per year but has not actually produced many better leaders.” The truths of this statement are apparent in […]