The Sustainable Leadership Community runs regular monthly online sessions with respected thought-leaders on the second Thursday of every month throughout the year. We also have occasional additional ‘bonus’ sessions.
Our regular and bonus sessions are listed below as we arrange and announce them. Each regular session will be 90 minutes long, the bonus sessions timings may vary.
October 10th @ 2pm – Dr Mark McKergow on Host Leadership
Mark McKergow is an internationally renowned thought-leader and the co-creator of two hugely influential pioneering practices now widely used in organizations across the globe. His ‘Solutions Focus’ coaching approach is one of the best-known coaching frameworks and taught by the leading coaching academies.
But it is his leadership thinking that he will be exploring with us today. In 2014 Mark published his book, with Helen Bailey, on Host Leadership. Host Leadership is both a metaphor and a framework for leading in a more engaging and human-centred manner to boost performance and results.
In this session Mark will introduce Host Leadership and the ‘leader as host’, stepping between the four roles of being in the spotlight, with the guests, in the gallery and in the kitchen, and the six forms of engagement they need to perform.
If you are a member of the Sustainable Leadership Community – book your place for Mark’s 90 minute session here.
All you need to do is click the ‘join/register’ link and fill-in the very short form (your name and email) – but remember to also add it to your calendar!
BONUS SESSION – November 12th @ 3pm UK – Prof Karthik Ramanna – The Age of Outrage
Karthik Ramanna is a professor of business and public policy at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government, where he has served as director of one of the world’s most diverse leadership programmes. Previously a professor at Harvard Business School, Ramanna studies how leaders build trust with stakeholders.
In this session Karthik, in conversation with Roddy Millar, will discuss his new book The Age of Outrage: How to Lead in a Polarized World, published by Harvard Business Review Press on October 29th.
Members can read our pre-publication review of this book here – and register to attend the event here.
f you are a member of the Sustainable Leadership Community – book your place for Karthik’s 90 minute session here.
All you need to do is click the ‘join/register’ link and fill-in the very short form (your name and email) – but remember to also add it to your calendar!
November 21st @ 2pm – Kenneth Hogg on Leading Change and Communities
Kenneth Hogg is a Programme Director and Faculty for the Presencing Institute. The Presencing Institute was founded by MIT professor, Otto Scharmer, to develop the theory and practice of systems transformation and to support individuals, organizations and multi-sector groups to bring about change in their own contexts.
Scharmer and the institute are best known for Theory-U, and the u-school for Transformation, a platform and network of partners that supports capacity-building, research, action labs and movement-building for the advancement of awareness-based systems change, addressing the critical social and environmental challenges of our times.
Prior to his secondment to the Presencing Institute, Kenneth was Director of Communities for the Scottish Government.
If you are a member of the Sustainable Leadership Community – book your place for Kenneth’s 90 minute session here.
All you need to do is click the ‘join/register’ link and fill-in the very short form (your name and email) – but remember to also add it to your calendar!
December 12th @ 2pm – Eve Poole, OBE, on Leadersmithing
Eve Poole is adjunct faculty at Ashridge Hult Business School and author of several successful leadership books – including Leadersmithing: Revealing the trade secrets of leadership. She honed her business skills working at Deloitte’s and has a PhD in Capitalism and Theology from Cambridge University.
Eve has held senior positions for several prestigious organizations including as the Third Church Commissioner for the Church of England, interim CEO of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Chairmanship of Gordonstoun School. She regularly consults for a wide range of organizations including Amazon, AstraZeneca, The British Embassy in Paris, Deutsche Bank, Heineken, Street Soccer Scotland, Tesco and many others.
If you are a member of the Sustainable Leadership Community – book your place for Eve’s 90 minute session here.
All you need to do is click the ‘join/register’ link and fill-in the very short form (your name and email) – but remember to also add it to your calendar!
January 9th, 2025 @ 3pm – Maja Djikic on The Possible Self
Maja Djikic, is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management as well as being the Executive Director of the Self-Development Laboratory, and Academic Director of the Rotman Executive Coaching Certificate at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
Maja has been selected by Thinkers50 as one of 30 thinkers around the world whose ideas have the potential to shape the future of organizations
A personality psychologist specializing in adult development, Maja has published more than 35 articles and book chapters in the area of personality development. Her research has been featured in over 50 media outlets (including The New York Times, Salon, Slate, and The Scientific American Mind) in 15 countries.
Her first book, The Possible Self: A Leader’s Guide to Personal Development was published in March 2024.
If you are a member of the Sustainable Leadership Community – book your place for Maja’s 90 minute session here.
All you need to do is click the ‘join/register’ link and fill-in the very short form (your name and email) – but remember to also add it to your calendar! NOTE: this session starts an hour later than normal – at 3pm GMT
February 13th, 2025 @ 2pm – Rebecca Stephens on the power of Stop, Pause and Reflect
On 17th May 1993, Rebecca Stephens became the first British woman to climb Everest and was awarded an MBE for her achievement. The following year she went on to become the first British woman to scale the Seven Summits, the highest mountain on each of the seven continents.
Rebecca’s approach to leadership development is something refreshingly different from the norm. The beauty of the mountains, she explains, is that they strip away any superficialities revealing only that which matters: namely, head, heart, and values. They give extraordinary insight into the human condition allowing participants to explore leadership issues at both an intellectual and deeply emotional level.
In this session Rebecca will explore the power and centrality of finding space to stop, pause and reflect in order to strengthen and develop your leadership practice.
If you are a member of the Sustainable Leadership Community – book your place for Rebecca’s 90 minute session here.
All you need to do is click the ‘join/register’ link and fill-in the very short form (your name and email) – but remember to also add it to your calendar!
March 13th, 2025 @ 2pm – Orit Wolf on Art, Innovation and Leadership
Orit Wolf is a world-renowned concert pianist and also an innovation consultant. She has been Artist in Residence at the Technion, often referred to as Israel’s MIT, teaching on the humanities and MBA programmes.
Ideas for Leaders has worked with Orit on many occasions before, and it is always an extraordinary experience the way she shares her musical acumen and experience to illuminate how we can better create and manage innovation in organizations.
Orit is an extraordinary talent both in performance and in teaching, bringing an unforgettable series of insights in how to break the rules to create innovative benefits.
If you are a member of the Sustainable Leadership Community – book your place for Orit’s 90 minute session here.
All you need to do is click the ‘join/register’ link and fill-in the very short form (your name and email) – but remember to also add it to your calendar!
April 10th, 2025 @ 2pm – monthly session – to be announced
We have a number of interesting thought-leaders we are in discussion with currently for this session and we hope to confirm the details shortly.
May 8th @ 2pm – Charles L Irvine on Learning from Elephants – How to use Conflict as a Natural Resource
Charles L Irvine is an inspirational speaker and special advisor who draws on 30 years of transformative thinking – working across all 15 Commercial, Public and Third Sectors across 24 countries to bring into focus unique and often unconventional thinking that defines strategy.
Growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid galvanized and set Charles on a path of exploration from an early age driven by the fundamental question – how can the World be made better and its energy used as a force for good?
His compelling narrative style is built on the firm belief that we bring about change by liberating people to connect with their passions and ambitions. This allows for the exploration of a radical approach to positively exploit differences between people in organisations, communities and in our daily lives.
In this session Charles will explore how we change the assumptions we hold about Conflict, to see and use conflict as one of our organisation’s greatest resources. Once we see conflict in this way we move beyond win/loose or win/win to Both-Gain TM outcomes that drive our thinking way beyond compromise.
If you are a member of the Sustainable Leadership Community – book your place for Charles’s 90 minute session here.
All you need to do is click the ‘join/register’ link and fill-in the very short form (your name and email) – but remember to also add it to your calendar!