Dialogues on innovative leadership topics between practitioners
All recent projections suggest the role and character of International NGOs will have to change over the next fifteen years. The role and capabilities of NGO leadership will have to change accordingly.
These changes will be driven by:
To meet these challenges, INGO leaders will need to develop new capabilities and competencies. These include the way leadership teams work together, their role as catalytic leaders, and a new set of strategic capabilities.
IMA International initiated and hosted a series of talks in support of stimulating dialogue and exchange amongst a cross section of international development practitioners.
This Forum takes the exploration further – examining exactly what those capabilities may need to be.
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With Susan as guide we will
Research Associate of the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, a Trustee of Tusk Trust, and adviser to the WILD Foundation
Co-author of Conservation (Cambridge University Press), which takes a global perspective to bring conservation to the heart of sustainability policy
Director of the Mali Elephant Project - her work involves using systems perspectives and collaborative approaches to understand the human-nature relationship and find sustainable solutions to conservation problems.
This event was held in May 2017 at the Mercure Brighton Seafront Hotel, Brighton.
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With Neil and Alister as guides, we will:
Neil Scotton PCC, C Eng, FRSA and Dr Alister Scott FRSA work with leaders and teams who are leading for positive change, nationally and internationally. Neil’s work with the leadership team of the International Coach Federation in the UK led to him receiving the highest award in the profession, citing his ‘contribution to the global profession’ and ‘evolutionary leadership’. Alister’s doctorate at the University of Sussex business school was a systemic look at the role of experts in addressing big global challenges.
Together they are partners at The One Leadership Project, with a mission to make big change possible. The focus is on the human elements of making that change happen within and between organisations. The project is currently helping charities have bigger impact, commercial organisations become great places to work, educational bodies nurture the leaders of tomorrow, catalysts shift systems, and collaborations turn complexity into action.
Their deep experience in systemic change includes transformations in professional services, business process re-engineering, shaping Antarctic policy, nurturing compassion in the care sector, catalysing early socially responsible investing, thought and action on energy, climate change and community energy, and growing and influencing the global coaching profession itself.
Their award winning thought leadership has a dedicated following.
This event was held in March 2017 at the New Economics Foundation, London.
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With Kate as a guide, we will:
Kate Hopkinson is a senior research associate of the Complexity Research Programme at the London School of Economics (LSE) and director of Inner Skills, a niche consultancy she set up in 1995.
With a lifelong involvement in the not-for-profit sector, Kate has consulted, served on boards and held the CEO role of a not-for-profit organisation. Commercial companies have recognised her work on the future of leadership, based on her innovative approach, Landscape of the Mind. Rolls Royce is one of the world class companies which have made extensive use of it at senior level.
Kate has made a film about her work in collaboration with LSE. She has a chapter on inner complexity in the forthcoming Handbook on the Application of Complexity Science in Organisations. Both are available to our Forum attendees.
Kate will introduce Landscape of the Mind and present case studies and findings from her work and research, illustrating implications for future leadership challenges.
This event was held in September 2015 at the New Economics Foundation, London.
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As director of the Masters Programme in NGO Management at City University’s Cass Business School, London and one of the founders of the Oxford-based International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC) he shares his extensive international work experience and his research and publication findings on the strategic and leadership issues NGOs face today.
This event was held in June 2015 at the New Economics Foundation, London.