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 – you can watch the session recording on this link.

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.

In this session Eve talks about the importance of learning through challenging situations, and strategies for handling fear and anxiety in leadership roles, with particular reference to managing one’s amygdala, slaying your leadership demons and building leadership muscle memory.

A recording of the session is available on this link. You will need to log-in to the main Ideas for Leaders site to access it.

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November 21st @ 2pm – Kenneth Hogg on Systems Leadership and Transformation

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.

In this session Kenneth leads us through the concept of systems leadership, where it applies and where it doesn’t, and some exercises to help us better understand how it applies in our own circumstances … and how we can develop better practices to deal with and lead whole systems transformation.

A recording of the session is available on this link. You will need to log-in to the main Ideas for Leaders site to access it.

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November 12th @ 3pm – Prof Karthik Ramanna on 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, discusses his new book The Age of Outrage: How to Lead in a Polarized World, published by Harvard Business Review Press on October 29th.

You can watch the video recording of this conversation here.

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 introduces to us in this session. 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 introduces Host Leadership and the ‘leader as host’, stepping between the four roles of being ‘In the Spotlight’, ‘Amongst the Guests’, ‘In the Gallery’ and ‘In the Kitchen’.

Sustainable Leadership Community and Ideas for Leaders premium members can watch the video of Mark’s presentation here: https://ideasforleaders.com/podcasts/slc-host-leadership-with-mark-mckergow/

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