Much of our work revolves around questions of leadership (or the lack of it). We specialise in helping groups of people see their world from a fresh perspective by helping shift patterns of behaviour, re-gaining confidence in generating ideas, developing reflective practice and by building greater self-awareness.
The three month programme was developed for 30 emerging leaders and delivered on a modular basis involving a range of outstanding creative practitioners.
It looked at important leadership challenges around self-awareness and reflection, managing your own energy, emotional intelligence, risk and failure, and the development of ideas. After Unilever ran the programme it was taken up by the Arts Council’s Cultural Leadership Programme.
We have taken the Media team on a number of journeys, all related to driving leadership in the digital space. We’ve developed virtual events using YouTube-style films, discussion boards, wikis, voting sites and Skype. We have helped them create and edit films using mobiles and Flip cameras, mashed up the best of the web’s wisdom and given them the insights they need. This year they reported from the Festival of Media posting ‘reportage’ films to Facebook within hours of the sessions.
We’re exploring the nature of successful leadership and developing films and courses along the way. Recently we worked with Professor Nancy Adler, the S Bronfman Chair in Management at McGill University, Montreal, making a film that looks at both sides of her professional life, as a renowned artist and as a leading management scholar, and how these two worlds draw from each other. One of her questions is, how can we lead beautifully in the 21st Century? The thinking goes that artists might hold the key…
Eyes Wide Open (working title)
We’ve developed a course that looks at leadership through the lens of graduates who are struggling to find their place in the world (“I have no idea what I want to do”). Often this is seen as a crisis moment but we’re positioning this as their first leadership opportunity. Their challenge is to understand what makes them distinctive and derive focus and momentum from that.
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