June 12th, @ 2pm – Michelle Holliday on Stewarding the System

Michelle Holliday is a consultant, facilitator, researcher and globally recognized thought leader, whose work centres around “thrivability” – a set of perspectives and practices based on a view of organizations and communities as dynamic living systems.

For more than two decades, she has supported pioneering, purpose-driven clients across a wide range of sectors, including tourism, agriculture, eldercare and education, to enable the transition to more regenerative systems and structures.

Michele believes that ‘there is so much to learn from nature and how it elegantly navigates complexity with creativity and resilience. Yet we typically think of organizations and communities in mechanistic terms, seeing them as separate from ourselves and seeking to manage, control and “re-engineer” them. While this has given us many benefits, it is also falling short in critical, even catastrophic ways. In recognizing our organizations and communities as dynamic, self-organizing living systems, we discover more effective ways of guiding them. And we set off on a pathway to greater wisdom, compassion and thriving.”

In this session Michelle will share her insights and thinking with us and ask us to review our own worlds through this different lens, and see how where the opportunities and challenges in leveraging our own system lie.

If you are a member of the Sustainable Leadership Community – book your place for Michelle’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!

July 10th, @ 2pm – Philip Pozzo di Borgo-Oliver on The Innovative Team.

Philip believes that leaders have a duty to make the most of their team’s energy and creativity. His mission is focused on helping organisations learn smarter and more innovative ways of thinking, communicating, and working.

With a background in systems thinking, engineering, and innovation Philip has been designing, leading, and delivering large scale transformational change programmes for over 30 years in sectors as diverse as diamond mining, oil & gas, financial services, retail, media/advertising, and defence.

As a certified master-level Innovation Engineer, he trains and coaches organisations to turn ideas into reality by building their own innovation ‘muscle’.

Philip is managing partner of Eureka!Europe, an innovation consultancy he co-founded in 2020, and is an associate partner of The Centre for Teams in London.

Driven by a strong sense of curiosity about the world, which he brings to his work and relationships, Philip finds himself constantly drawn to these words by TS Elliot: “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”

In this interactive session, Philip will invite an exploration of what it means to be a leader with responsibility for innovating or continuously improving your business, and what you can practically do about it. We will visit important team and leadership themes, including: trust, fear, diversity, inspiration, and engagement.

If you are a member of the Sustainable Leadership Community – book your place for Philip’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!

August 14th, @ 2pm – Summer Leadership Exploration and Discussion

For this August session we shall be doing something a little different to our usual sessions.

Led by Roddy Millar we shall engage in a series of short discussions, mixing the groups and exploring different leadership topics.

We shall review some of the themes already covered in previous sessions – and also dip our toes into some other areas.

As always the objective is to use the 90 minutes to reflect and connect on leadership concepts, so that they are fresher and more easily accessible for when the moment to draw upon them arises.

The more you have explored your thinking on leadership matters with others, the more intentional you can be about employing new practices in the future.

This will be the usual relatively informal session we strive to create – where everyone can feel confident to ask questions, share stories and listen to other’s experiences.

If you are a member of the Sustainable Leadership Community – book your place for this 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!

September 11th, @ 2pm – Jenny Campbell on ‘Resilience for Sustainable Performance‘

Call it ‘flow’ or ‘being in the zone’ or ‘riding the wave’ but creating an environment where you and your team are aligned and full of energy, and so really performing: it is the holy grail of organisations, and it is what the Sustainable Leadership Community is always seeking to promote.

Jenny Campbell is a hugely experienced researcher and coach, who focuses on resilience to enable these outcomes. She has worked with a wide range of major organisations to build out the resilience of their workforce, and is the author of ‘The Resilience Dynamic’.

You can read more about Jenny here.

If you are a member of the Sustainable Leadership Community – book your place for Jenny’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!

October 9th, 2025 @ 2pm

we shall be announcing our October speaker in the near future . Please check back soon.

November 13th, 2025 @ 2pm

we shall be announcing our November speaker in the near future . Please check back soon.

December 11th, 2025 @ 2pm

we shall be announcing our December speaker in the near future . Please check back soon.