Exploring what we can learn from past and present place-based initiatives On 8th August 2024 the Leadership Centre launched its new online enquiry into place-based working and leadership. The event brought together colleagues from diverse sectors, disciplines, and...
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What can the octopus teach us about devolution?
I’d like to talk to you about the octopus. Six years ago, I read Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith, a celebration of the unique intelligence of octopuses and other cephalopods. A key feature of cephalopods is their distributed nervous system; and in the case of...
Coaching Perspectives – It’s Lonely at the Top
Claudine Menashe-Jones is an executive coach and leadership team facilitator with more than two decades of global strategy and delivery experience, and particular expertise in public sector reform. Claudine has her own consultancy and is one of a number of highly...
Systems Leadership Approaches Tackling Obesity in Bradford
In 2023, the Leadership Centre ran a systems leadership development programme for public health professionals, commissioned by the Office of Health Improvement and Disparities in Yorkshire and the Humber. Collette Brauns, Senior Head of Living Well at NHS Bradford and...
Coaching Perspectives – All Together Now
Claudine Menashe-Jones is an executive coach and leadership team facilitator with more than two decades of global strategy and delivery experience, and particular expertise in public sector reform. Claudine has her own consultancy and is one of a number of highly...
Coaching Perspectives – The Importance of Taking Time Out
Claudine Menashe-Jones is an executive coach and leadership team facilitator with more than two decades of global strategy and delivery experience, and particular expertise in public sector reform. Claudine has her own consultancy and is one of a number of highly...
Join a unique immersive leadership challenge!
We're delighted to be working with the Birmingham Food Council to bring you a leadership challenge like no other. 'The Game' is a scenario-based, immersive learning experience that brings together senior leaders with the Birmingham Food Council's team of experts to...
The atomisation of leadership – the real cost of austerity?
Local Government is a beautiful thing. (I am equally smitten with Regional Government, too – one of my present temporary homes.) It has been in and out of my life for twenty-five years now and, if you consider my time in teaching, then you can ratchet that up to forty...
What would it take to shift place-based approaches from the margins to the mainstream?
The Centre has, throughout its history, pioneered the notion of place-based leadership - leading beyond organisational boundaries in collaboration with others in pursuit of thriving, resilient, and equitable communities. We’re now launching an enquiry to explore the...
Collaboration Creating Movement
Southall is a vibrant, multicultural town in the London Borough of Ealing, rich in diversity and home to migrant communities from across the world, including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Somalia. At least 43% of the population were physically inactive...