by Rachel Smyth | Aug 26, 2021 | News
Peter Smith, our longstanding chair sadly died over the summer. Peter had a long and distinguished career in local government, clocking up 40 years of service as a councillor. He spent 27 years leading the council, making him one of the longest serving leaders in the...
by Rachel Smyth | Jan 11, 2021 | News
We are living in unprecedented times. Rapid changes are challenging public services, businesses, societies and nations across the UK and the world. Our team at the Leadership Centre is standing alongside public service leaders helping to navigate these extraordinary...
by Rachel Smyth | Dec 18, 2020 | News
On 9 December 2020, the Leadership Centre hosted a virtual discussion about leadership and resilience in the time of the pandemic. The topic was proposed by a number of alumni of the Centre’s various leadership programmes and the event was attended by some 25 alumni,...
by Rachel Smyth | Nov 21, 2020 | Blogs
An old Irish quip is that if you want to get to (wherever) I would not start from here. Still in the middle of this epidemic we must ask the question how can we build not a new normal but a better normal, or in the famous advice to Obama in the middle of the 2008...
by Rachel Smyth | Jun 22, 2020 | Blogs
Benjamin Franklin famously claimed that the only two certainties in life were death and taxes. For those of us involved in public service the modern version of that statement might be there is never enough money to meet all our aspirations, and most of whatever money...
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