The pressures on local government leaders have never been greater. Financial constraints, increasing demand for services, and the need for systemic transformation are all converging to create an incredibly challenging environment. As we head towards the end of the...
At the Leadership Centre, our commitment to providing exceptional leadership support across services to the public remains at the heart of everything we do. Since 2013, countless leaders have benefitted from Future Vision, our flagship developmental leadership...
On 9th October 2024, we proudly celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Leadership Centre at the iconic BT Tower in London. This milestone event gathered leaders from across the public, private, and voluntary sectors for a day filled with meaningful discussions about...
In a recent piece for The MJ, Mark Rogers, Chief Executive of the Leadership Centre and current interim Chief Executive of East Midlands Combined County Authority looks at the skills needed to become a successful combined authority chief executive. Mayoral Combined...
Barely a week after the general election, Wes Streeting made his first official visit as Health and Social Care Secretary. He went not to a major acute hospital, but to a GP practice, where he pledged a shift in resources to primary and community care, in order to...
Our Associate Director of Public Sector and Politics, Claire Spencer, recently spoke at the MJ Future Forum in her role as part of the team at the Future Governance Forum. Her speech, abridged for republishing online, shares her reflections about the future of the...
The Leadership Centre is delighted to be working with Connected Places Catapult this year to deliver the Innovation Places Leadership Academy (IPLA) - an exciting initiative aimed at helping local leaders spark innovation in their regions. The Academy is all about...
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...
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...
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...