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Dave Robinson is the founder and CEO of Vertical Performance Enterprises, a leadership and management consulting company specialising in executive leadership development and organisational performance improvement. A former fighter pilot, TOPGUN instructor, and U.S. Marine Corps colonel with over three decades of experience leading high-performing teams in complex, dynamic, high-stakes operating environments, Dave is a senior advisor to Fortune 1000 companies and an international speaker on the subject of leadership effectiveness. His passion is helping leaders inspire their teams to change their world. Dave grew up in Winchester, Virginia and currently lives with his family in Hilton Head, South Carolina. www.verticalperformance.us http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidandrewrobinson (http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidandrewrobinson) David's Book - https://amzn.to/3nAHKhz (The Substance of Leadership) Support this podcast

Scot Bell - VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR & CO-PRODUCTION LEADHaving spent the past 7 years in various organisations, the last 5 years at a large Drug and Alcohol Treatment provider in Kirklees, Scott found his way to Simon on the Streets, working in a service providing support for a need close to his heart.  With years of Lived Experience alongside lots of professional skills, Scott is now back working to make Simon on the Streets a fertile ground for Co-Production to happen.  This is something he has done before in many different ways including being integral in the development of the WY-FI Project and working alongside Leaders in the Health Care System at the Centre for Innovation in Health Management. About his role, Scott says: “Involving clients/patients/service users in the care and support they require ensures sustainability and development of in time services as well as builds trusting relationships with the people we work to serve."  Find out more about Simon on the Streets in Leeds. https://www.simononthestreets.co.uk/ (https://www.simononthestreets.co.uk/) Support this podcast

Dr Roshni Beeharry is a writer, poet, poetry reviewer, former NHS Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine and Portfolio Medical Educator. She has an MA in Creative Writing & Personal Development, University of Sussex (2005) and MA Clinical Education, Institute of Education,(2013) and is a Fellow of the HIgher Education Academy. She combines her passions for writing and facilitating and supporting the wellbeing and development of others in her work as a Writing for Wellbeing & Personal Development Facilitator and in October 2020, set up her own small business, Storied Selves http://storiedselves.com/ (storiedselves.com) providing writing for wellbeing workshops for the public, those in the healthcare fields , organisations and those receiving care. She can be contacted via her website http://storiedselves.com/ (storiedselves.com) Twitter https://twitter.com/roshni_beeharry (@roshni_beeharry) or via LInked in as Dr Roshni Beeharry https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-roshni-beeharry (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-roshni-beeharry) And Roshni has written extensively too. Here are a couple of pieces: Creative Writing in https://issuu.com/magazineproduction/docs/mw_v39.2_aw_1120_ezine (https://issuu.com/magazineproduction/docs/mw_v39.2_aw_1120_ezine) (p30-31 ) The Potential of Creative Writing in Healthcare Education in  https://www.nawe.co.uk/writing-in-education/nawe-magazine/current-issue.html# (https://www.nawe.co.uk/writing-in-education/nawe-magazine/current-issue.html#) (p53-55) Support this podcast

Dr. Kolysh is a lesbian agender mother of four and a feminist scholar of race, gender, and sexuality. Their background in Biology, Public Health, LGBTQ studies, and Sociology aids their scholar-activism and commitment to revolutionary futures. A culmination of the last ten years, Dr. Kolysh' first book, Everyday Violence: The Public Harassment of Women and LGBTQ People, will be published in September 2021 with Rutgers University Press. Their current research project is on transgender and nonbinary people's reproductive journeys and barriers to care. You can learn more about Dr. Kolysh at http://simonekolysh.com (http://simonekolysh.com). Support this podcast

Nick is the Head of Digital Technologies at TSDFT and currently leads on multiple VR based initiatives within the NHS including The VR Lab sponsored by Health Education England and is founder of PatientVR. Nick advocates a ‘clinicians as content creators' approach to creativity in healthcare and believes collaboration and access is key to the adoption and success of new technologies. Nick works and advises on various digital and emerging healthcare technologies panels at a national level, with a particular remit around immersive and simulation visual interfaces.  Nick has frequently spoken at national level (and is a TEDx speaker) on the use and potential of immersive technologies within healthcare, approaching this area from a grounded humanities perspective. ​ https://t.co/fjIvDr28sM (immersive.tsdft.uk) https://t.co/CKAPtGmWok (youtube.com/watch?v=AmvOds…) Support this podcast

Steven Lavine has for four decades been an artistic, educational, and community leader in the United States and nationally. From 1988 to 2017 he served as President of the California Institute of the Arts, a period of sustained growth in programs, community engagement, enrolment, reputation and financial stability for the progressive multi-disciplinary arts college. Shortly after stepping down, he was recruited as Founding Director and then Chair of the Los Angeles Advisory Council for the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles, which is devoted to bringing creative thinkers from Germany and the United States together around urgent contemporary issues, particularly the future of liberal democracy. Today, he divides his time between the Thomas Mann House and consulting with a broad range of progressive not-for-profit organisations. Before CalArts, Lavine was an Assistant Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Michigan and then Associate Director of the Arts and Humanities Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, where he supported reform of K-12 educational reform, experimental media, and the development of exhibition strategies for American minority and non-Western arts and cultures. He has co-edited two influential books about museum practices: Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display and Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Support this podcast

Amy McDonald, Founder and CEO of Headtorch, is dedicated to prioritising mental health at work. With a background in drama, education, business, mediation and coaching, Amy fuses her skills to create dramatic learning & development that reflects delegate experience.  “I love breaking stigma; watching the penny drop; reversing injustice; enabling people to steer cultural change; creating organisations where support is everything; and doing nothing is not an option.”  Headtorch enables and promotes a positive mental health culture in the workplace. It delivers solutions across all levels of an organisation, demystifying mental health and creating confidence to have supportive conversations.  http://www.headtorch.org/ (www.headtorch.org) info@headtorch.org Support this podcast

Veronica LysaghtFounder of Leading with HumanityVeronica believes that courageous, compassionate and inspiring leadership is needed to deal with the crises we face in the world at the moment, and that this style of leading is something we can all achieve. Her mission is to play her part in making leading with humanity an everyday reality. She has a background in business, journalism, counselling and association management. She is an ICF certified Integral coach and has more than 20 years' experience coaching. https://leadingwithhumanity.org/ (https://leadingwithhumanity.org/) Support this podcast

Gill Crawshaw I draw on my experience of disability activism to organise exhibitions and events which highlight issues affecting disabled people. Exhibitions have addressed representation (Possible All Along, 2020), charity (Piss on Pity, 2019), cuts to welfare and public spending (Shoddy, 2016) and access (The Reality of Small Differences, 2014). I am also interested in the intersection of disabled people's lives with textile heritage in the north of England, as well as contemporary textile arts. I have a degree in Textile Design. I completed an MA in Curation Practices at Leeds Arts University in 2018. Curating is a recent change of role. Before this, I was a local authority disability equality officer, then I worked in Leeds' third sector health and care network. gill.crawshaw@gmail.com https://shoddyexhibition.wordpress.com/ (https://shoddyexhibition.wordpress.com/) https://pissonpityexhibition.wordpress.com/ (https://pissonpityexhibition.wordpress.com/) https://possibleallalong.co.uk/ (https://possibleallalong.co.uk/) DAN - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disabled_People%27s_Direct_Action_Network (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disabled_People%27s_Direct_Action_Network) Support this podcast

Beth Terrence is a Shaman, Holistic Health & Wellness Facilitator, Recovery Coach, Speaker and Writer. She has been working in the field of Holistic Health & Wellness and Transformation for over 25 years by offering an integrative holistic approach that incorporates education, self-exploration and experiential practices. Major modalities that form the core of her practice include Shamanic Healing, Meditation & Mindfulness, Zero Balancing, Bach Flower Remedies and Restorative Practices. Beth views connection as the most potent “medicine”, and is passionate about supporting individuals and communities in engaging in practices and tools that support reconnection, well-being and wholeness. Annually, she convenes May Is For Metta: 31 Days of Loving-kindness Practice as well as an array of experiential workshops and programs that support transformation and healing on all levels - body, mind, emotion and spirit. Website: http://bethterrence.com/ (bethterrence.com) Twitter: https://twitter.com/bethterrence (@bethterrence) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethterrence (bethterrence) Support this podcast

Becky is Professor in Health Systems Innovation at London South Bank University, and Director of the Health Systems Innovation Lab which provides organisational and leadership development for place-based systems change; leadership programmes for clinical leaders, network leaders and citizen leaders; the Primary Care Quality Academies; and which catalyses spread through an international network. Becky has a track record in systems innovation, the development of asset-based health models, organisational change and leadership development in the UK and Internationally, and in leading networks. She leads a number of Primary Care Development initiatives including a collaboration with Modality and RCGP to support Primary Care Leaders; and the Primary Care Networks Academy. Her experience is an unusual combination of leader, manager, researcher, change agent and entrepreneur. She is known to be an energetic and enthusiastic leader of change and a forward thinker. She has made sustained and demonstrable impact through her work on the quality of health services. Her work on '10 Leaps Forward – Innovation in the Pandemic' has had global reach. She is currently an advisor to the RSA Future of Health and Care programme, and the Bromley By Bow Social Prescribing Evaluation. During the pandemic Becky has co-lead the Ilkley Scrubs Sewing group sewing face coverings for the community and scrubs for the NHS; leads the Free School Meals at Home for Ilkley; and performed in the Self Isolation Choir's Messiah at Home. Becky Chairs the Ilkley Clean River Group campaign to make rivers in the UK free of untreated sewage, achieving the first Bathing Water Status for a river in the UK. She is the thought leader for the following website www.source4networks.org.uk and a reviewer for BMJ leader Becky blogs at www.beckymalby.wordpress.com on Primary care, coproduction, systems leadership, and innovation and at www.pcnacademy.org.uk on Primary Care Networks. E: r.malby@LSBU.ac.uk T: @BeckyMalby Support this podcast

Lou Mycroft has been working nomadically for several years now, guided by an ethics of joy. She brings people together in community, to think, make decisions and implement plans which change cultures, choosing work based on Nesta UK's 2018 definition of Good Help: “…enabling people to feel hopeful, identify their own purpose and confidently take action.”  She is a Thinking Environment facilitator, writer, public speaker and coach and her work translates well to online spaces. She is co-founder of the #JoyFE

Mick Ward is a Senior Associate of Nurture Development, an associate of the Health Systems Innovations Lab at London South Bank University and a Trustee of PAFRAS (Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers based in Leeds).   He retired in June 2020 as Chief Officer, Transformation and Innovation, for the Adults and Health Directorate in Leeds City Council. The role focused on Asset Based Community Development, Digital Health, Arts and Well-Being, Service Transformation, Equality, and Innovation in Practice. He is from Leeds and worked for social care at Leeds City Council for 42 years, initially as a Care Assistant, before developing and managing a range of services for disabled people and then moving into commissioning for Adult Social Care, Public Health, Housing Support and the NHS, This developed into an expanded joint role as Deputy Director across the Local Authority and the CCG's in Leeds, leading on commissioning across a wide range of health, care and wellbeing services, before establishing the transformation and innovation role. Mick has a strong commitment to the social model of disability, citizenship, communities, innovation, culture, equality and diversity, and working in partnership. He is a life long Leeds United fan and a member of the board of Marching Out Together – the Leeds United LGBT+ Supporters Group Tweet @mickmodern To hear more from Mick... https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/blog/abcd-practice/proliferation-the-implementation-of-abcd-in-leeds-part-1/ (‘Proliferation' – The implementation of ABCD in Leeds Part 1 - Nurture Development) https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/blog/abcd-practice/proliferation-the-implementation-of-abcd-in-leeds-part-2/ (https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/blog/abcd-practice/proliferation-the-implementation-of-abcd-in-leeds-part-2/) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSeYJX5fImw (Mick Ward: Commissioning Through Influence) Support this podcast

Ever since he was a child, Martin has stimulated real conversation, captured the insights of people and helped people share those insights with others. His innate curiosity led him to study and work in physics, IT, fibre optics, nucleonics, water treatment, project management and many more subjects. His own personal quest to find out who the real Martin Wells is led him to study and work in human psychology, teaching, diversity and equality in health care and personal growth. All of these things combined with exploring unique ways of using modern technologies continues to help him provide others with insights so that new possibilities can emerge. Support this podcast

Tony is a coach based in London. His coaching interests include: leadership for reluctant or inexperienced leaders, how to avoid (and recover from) burnout and mental fitness and self-defence. When he's not coaching he can be found in the gym (post-pandemic), singing (post-pandemic) or out and about on his bike (especially during a pandemic). I first met Tony nearly 30 years ago and this was our first proper conversation for a very long time. We explore stress and burnout and what recovery can look like among many other things. Tony can be found at https://www.tonypiper.coach/ (https://www.tonypiper.coach/) and on twitter as https://twitter.com/tonypiper (@tonypiper) And, if LinkedIn is your thing https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonypiperuk/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonypiperuk/) Support this podcast

As Co-Founder and Managing Director of a growing social enterprise Resilience Learning Partnership, Shumela Ahmed is a teacher and educator by trade and an activist at heart.  As a real life example of the transformation education can bring to someone's life, she has dedicated her academic and professional career to helping others realise this too.  As an adult returner to education and as someone who left school at aged 14 she knows first hand the power that education holds in providing the tools for those from disadvantaged backgrounds to succeed in life. As the leader of a Lived Experienced led organisation its Shumela's ambition to see Lived Experience as the dominating force within public policy design across the UK. She feels passionately that the key to achieving this ambition lies within the learning and development of staff and adopting a new approach that has Lived Experience expertise at the heart of it.  She is also a passionate advocate of the renumeration of those with Lived Experience involved in public policy design and the recognition that this expertise brings a dynamic to L&D work not currently utilised in the sector. As a co-author of the National Trauma Training Plan, Shumela continues to target Resilience Learning Partnership's core activities towards enhancing the learning and development of staff across local authority, 3rd and private sector organisations.  As well as being a co-author of the National Trauma Training Plan, Shumela advises Scottish Government in the continued development of the National Trauma Training Programme and the implementation of Trauma Informed Practice across Scotland. Support this podcast

Dr David Atkinson is both an award-winning researcher and a practitioner of enterprise and entrepreneurship in their widest sense. His monograph, Thinking the Art of Management, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2007. With a new book project nearing submission, his interest in applied philosophy accompanies 15+ years commercial, entrepreneurial and organisational leadership experience, built on an extensive career as a communications and IT & systems analyst, consultant project engineer and manager in public service. With one of his more recent ventures, he held a position in the http://startups.co.uk/ (StartUps.co.uk) ‘Top 100 startups to watch'. for three consecutive years. David is openly, and proudly autistic. In 2000, he embarked on an academic journey while engaging in business creation. Since 2018, he has been working part-time in academia, where his neuro-divergent free-thinking and curious nature have been central to what and how he achieves what he does. His focus in his new book project is on developing his past and current research and experience of embedding critical philosophical approaches to sensemaking about the reality of capitalist enterprise. This offers potential benefits to understanding our place within the moral, social and political dimensions of socio-economic organisational praxis. In short: David thinks critically about our emergence in an uncertain world of socio-economic, enterprising work. Support this podcast

Compassion for all is Sal's guiding principle. She brings literature, particularly poetry, and play to the conversation in order to bypass habitual thinking and allow people to take themselves by surprise with their responses. Experiential learning, where we learn something through experiencing a shift, in our understanding, is more likely to help us find something new in ourselves than any amount of reading textbooks, attending lectures or seminars, and sitting tests or exams. It is also results in expanded appreciation of ourselves and others, and of how we can choose a new response in order to get a transformed result. Sal came to InterBe after; 20 years in education, an NLP Diploma, Practitioner, and two Master Practitioner trainings, coaching certification and a Narrative Coaching programme. All of her training has been in the form of experiential learning and has had a deep impact on her way of being. She is particularly inspired by literature and film; the pioneering work of Michael White; and, since 2006, by working with Mo and Simon at InterBe. Support this podcast

Minter Dial is an international professional and energetic speaker and a multiple award-winning author, specialised in leadership, branding and transformation. An agent of change, he's a three-time entrepreneur who has exercised twelve different métiers and changed country fifteen times. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L'Oréal, where he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division. He's author of the award-winning WWII story, The Last Ring Home (documentary film and biographical book, 2016) as well as two prize-winning business books, Futureproof (2017) and Heartificial Empathy (2019). His next book on leadership, You Lead, How being yourself makes you a better leader (Kogan Page) comes out in January 2021. He's been host of the Minter Dialogue weekly podcast since 2010. He is passionate about the Grateful Dead, Padel Tennis, languages and generating meaningful conversations. @mdial / minterdial.com    His new book, You Lead, How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader (by Kogan Page), which launches Jan 3, is available at all fine etailers. Support this podcast

John Preston joined The Conservation Volunteers (then BTCV) whilst still at school, after a degree (geography and statistics) at St Andrews. He came to Leeds as a live-in Long Term Volunteer at Hollybush Conservation Centre. After 18 months in Doncaster with BTCV on Community Programme he came back to Leeds as a Project Officer. For 20 years he was the “Centre Manager” of Hollybush, leading its evolution into the busy inclusive environmental volunteering centre it is today. In 2018 he moved sideways to be Business Development Manager for TCV covering the North (Liverpool to Hull) this role has a strong Leeds focus as 15% of TCV nationally is Leeds.  He continues to contribute to environmental and general third sector forums.  Outside of work he is a volunteer recorder and speaker for the BTO and holds a private pilot licence.   Support this podcast

Aaron was appointed Chief Executive of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust in March 2018 after first joining in January 2014 as Director of Finance / Deputy Chief Executive. An experienced and motivated professional, Aaron's previous roles include Director of Finance / Deputy Chief Executive of Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, and Director of Finance at Liverpool Heart and Chest NHS Foundation Trust. Aaron began his career in the NHS as a National Graduate Trainee in 2000 and has held a number of senior management positions in the acute and community provider sector during this time. More recently, Aaron was chosen to take part in the National Leadership Centre programme to improve public services, and has also had involvement in the Covid-19 national test and trace programme. Aaron also sits on the Integrated Care System (ICS) Digital Portfolio Board. Aaron has also held a number of national roles including chair of the Foundation Trust Network Finance Directors' Forum and the Government ProcurementServices (GPS) Customer Board, as well as being a member of the National Procurement Council. Support this podcast

Chris Jones Chris is a qualified accountant with previous experience in public and private sectors, including the NHS. He spent 7 years as the principal and chief executive of Calderdale College, and is a former member of the Calderdale Safeguarding Children Board. He has a particular interest in leadership and governance, and the impact this has on service standards and organisational performance. He is a non executive director at South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS FT and Director at Chris Jones Consultancy. He speaks here in a purely personal capacity. Support this podcast

Rachel and Dan are the founders of 15s30m. 15s30m (15 seconds 30 minutes) is a social movement to reduce frustration and increase joy in work. Co-founders Rachel Pilling & Dan Wadsworth encourage all staff, from chief exec to porter, to spend a few seconds on a task now, to save SOMEONE ELSE time and hassle later. It doesn't take any set up costs, meetings or resources, just something you know will help other people, and patients. By doing one little thing, you can feel that you have made a difference to someone else, and that's what brings true joy in work. Web; https://t.co/vPiprBaAVT (15s30m.co.uk) Email; info@15s30m.co.uk Twitter; https://twitter.com/15s30m/ (@15s30m) Support this podcast

Charlie is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the NHS. In previous roles, he has worked in Older People's Mental Health services, dementia services, and Employee Wellbeing services. He currently works in an Acute Hospital, where his role is to lead a clinical psychology service to support the quality of life of people with various long term health conditions. He is a dad to identical twin boys. Support this podcast

Professor Calvin Moorley RN, PhD is a Professor in Nursing Research and Diversity in Care, Adult Nursing Department at London South Bank University, with a background in public health and diversity in care. His research focuses on the interplay of gender, culture ethnicity and health. Since graduating from the University of Essex as an adult registered nurse, Calvin has followed a clinical/academic career, remaining close to clinical nursing, particularly in the critical care environment, and currently works one shift a week in an inner-city hospital in central London. He supports clinical nursing at the point-of-care through his role as a link lecturer for Barts Health NHS Trust. Calvin has a keen interest in how health is theorized using social media platforms. He has published widely in nursing and social media and is developing an area on the use of social media to enhance research literacy of nurses. His most recent works include Knowledge, attitude and beliefs on sex among Black Africans; Psychosexual Experiences of FGM survivors and Experience of Stroke among Caribbean populations in the UK. Calvin is well recognised in the field and this can be seen in his esteem factors which include: Guest Editor for a special issue of Journal of Clinical Nursing on LGBTI Health 2017; the Mary Seacole Prize for Leadership in Nursing 2013/14 by the Royal College of Nursing, and various editorships including Evidence Based Nursing Journal and Journal of Transcultural Nursing. Calvin collaborates nationally and internationally including working with teams in Trinidad, Jamaica and Australia. He publishes widely in various nursing journals, and has a current H-index of 6 (Google Scholar 2019). Calvin further serves the nursing community on various panels such as the Nursing Times Student Nurses awards; Edith Cavell Awards and Health Service Journal awards. A key objective of Calvin's programme of work is to reduce the gap in health inequalities through developing and improving cultural competence and health literacy. Support this podcast

Paul Jebb OStJ MA BSc(Hons) DipHE RN Paul qualified as a nurse in 1996 and worked in numerous posts within nursing, as well as a period in operational management, then in 2010 returned to nurse, then in October 2014, Paul undertook a secondment to the National Patient Experience team at NHS England as Experience of Care Professional Lead, leading on developing Always Events, aspects of the carers work stream and toolkit development to enhance experience of care. In December 2016 Paul returned to an NHS Trust and is now Associate Director of Nursing at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS FT and has recently completed a 13 month secondment as Deputy Director of Nursing at Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals NHS Trust. Paul has been involved and led on numerous quality improvement initiatives throughout his career, and has gained the extra mile award by the motor neurone disease Association, in 2012 Paul was winner of a national Patient Safety Award, and in 2014 Paul and his team won a national healthcare communications award for best engagement. In April 2016 Paul became an International Fellow of the England Centre for Practice Development at the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Canterbury Christ Church University. In February 2014 Paul was honoured to be offered an Honorary Senior Lectureship at the University of Central Lancashire. Paul is also a member of an NMC Professional Standards advisory panel, which aims to give strategic direction to the NMC Executive team and to improve the dialogue between the NMC and leaders in the professions and to ensure expertise, is brought to bear on NMC work. Paul was also part of the strategic group to refresh the NMC Education Standards. Paul has represented the Royal College of Nursing at local, regional, national and international levels, is a member of RCNi Editorial Advisory Board. Paul also judges several national nursing and health care awards. Paul has also been the Assistant Chief Nurse (Head of Workforce) for St John Ambulance (England & the Islands), and has held other voluntary roles. In 2012 he was honoured with the award of ‘Officer of the Order of St John'. Paul has developed his managerial skills and has completed an MA in Health Service Management. Paul also completed the Dept. of Health/RCN leadership Course for Nurses Working with Older People in 2005, and he was a Fellow of the NHS Institute Faculty of Improvement. And in 2016 completed the ‘Aspirant Executive Nurse Leaders' sponsored by NHS Improvement at London South Bank University. Support this podcast

David is a rotational physiotherapist at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust and a member of the Professional Committee at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. He has a passion for healthcare after his previous career in the Royal Marines was cut short due to serious injury. A thread that has run through his life is self-development and making a difference. He balances being an early career physiotherapist with being a member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Professional Committee; where he provides expertise and insight on significant physiotherapy practice, learning and development issues. He also chairs the Armed Forces Committee within University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation which represents the armed forces community within the trust. He is passionate about servicemen and women having fulfilling careers after their service and how the NHS and Military collaborate to drive innovation. He graduated from the University of Nottingham with 1st Class Honours in physiotherapy where he researched student physiotherapists perceptions of using social media for learning. He is currently a Healthcare Leadership Academy Scholar and is working on a project around early-career leadership. He has interests in leadership, rehabilitation, healthcare policy and systems. Find David on Twitter @beardedPT I talk with David about how we might help people imagine a better future for health and care and find ways of self-organising to fight for it. We explore leadership and student leadership, universal basic income and the Enterprise Allowance amongst much else. Support this podcast

John Walsh is the Organisational Development; and 'Freedom to speak up' Lead for Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust. John has spent the last 20 years working on the streets of Leeds trying to offer support to homeless people. He was Leeds Community Healthcare's clinician of the year in 2013 and the Yorkshire and Humber NHS Leadership Academy Community Leader of the Year in the same year.  John currently works with Manraj Khela and Steve Keyes to grow a city wide systems leadership community of over 600 people in Leeds. We explore: The development of rational and intuitive wisdom and the role of teachers Gifts, potential, giving and receiving Seeing and giving our own gists and releasing the gifts in others as THE work of leadership The importance of vulnerability and getting it wrong Hafiz and Fromm New leadership for a new world Headwork, heartwork and handwork Slow philosophy and much more... Support this podcast

Over the last 20 years Cormac has worked in over 30 countries around the world. He has trained communities, agencies, NGOs and governments in ABCD and other strengths based approaches in Kenya, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, South Africa, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada and Australia. He is passionate about the proliferation of community-driven change and citizen-centred democracy, and has supported hundreds of communities to make ABCD visible through what he calls ABCD Neighbourhood Learning Sites. His motto, paraphrasing Benjamin Franklin, is: ‘When it comes to Community Building, well done is better than well said'. In January 2011 Cormac was appointed to the Expert Reference Group on Community Organising and Communities First, by Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Civil Society in the UK which he served on for the term of the Group. We talk about: Diligence - and holidays Compliance and tyranny in western institutions Associational and Institutional life When it comes to health might anthropologists be more useful than doctors? De-funding the police Triangles, circles, care and dominion Support this podcast

Chris is a coach who helps green changemakers get clear and focused. So they realise their true potential. Some run their own business, others are freelancers, or employed. What they all have in common is an appetite for change. They're ready to try something radical to put more soul in their livelihood, and finally bring that big unrealised dream to life. In this conversation we explore a plate of smashed crabs - ideas that Chris wanted to explore as part of a conversation with me. But we spun off in all sorts of directions: Lessons from blue chip leaders Labels, boxes and people as pattern machines The difference between management and leadership and how we locate them in ourselves Spitfires, hypocrisy, the Tour de France and Welcome to Yorkshire The role of curmudgeons Echo chambers and tribalism Listening to our world And lots of reflections on human waste - Zizek and faeces Support this podcast

Anj is along standing friend and the Founder of Inspiring Women Changemakers (IWC), a global, inclusive movement of people who want to see the world become a safer, fairer place for women, wherever they live and whatever they do. She is dedicated to promoting the rights of women at all levels of business and society. She is also a lobbyist who has undertaken diplomatic assignments in employment and skills policy. She is multilingual (German, Punjabi, French, Hindi), speaker, writer and NED with international experience at Board level. With 20 years' experience in the field, her professional experience is grounded in a deep understanding of Good Governance, Employment Law and digital systems. As Chair of Freedom Studios and Governor of Leeds Arts University, she specialises in arts sector leadership. We talk about: Lockdown Disrupting poverty Leeds Migrant Access Project Skills and diversity in the boardroom, Roots, rootlessness, identity, anchoring and nourishment FGM campaigning and Masai Cricketers Sally Kohn and Emotional Correctness Privilege and Choice Head, heart AND Soul And being fully human... Support this podcast

Tom tells the story of his sister, Alison Bell, and her family's uncovering of the truth about what happened to her in the care of an NHS Trust. He describes the nature of the various investigations that were held into Alison's death and the role of the prevailing cultures within the public sector organisations they have dealt with; the NHS, Police, CPS and Regulatory Bodies. This true and ongoing story shines a light on the personal, emotional and financially costly impact that public sector service cultures can have on the lives of their service-users and their own bottom-line. Tom's lived and current experience will help us to explore the implications for our own practice and the organisations we might seek to influence, manage and lead. If you would like to support Tom's efforts to develop honesty and integrity in public service then please visit https://www.hipss.co.uk/ You can also https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-killing-of-alison-lessons-in-honesty-and-integrity-in-public-service-tickets-121151981839 (join Tom and myself in a workshop )to explore the implications for our leadership development from his experience on October 22nd. Support this podcast

David Lumb - is an Independent Urbanist seeking redemption for having been an architect for most of his life. David moved to Chapel Allerton in 1969 and founded the Leeds Sustainable Development Group based on the Freiburg Charter. Having heard the episode with Tom Riordan, David was keen to have a natter. He talks about his activism around transport and pollution, his role in developing the Leeds South Bank including getting £23m from a certain Michael Gove to build a Free School in South Leeds and the ensuing big and little p Politics. We talk about housing policy - to buy or to rent? Rachel Unsworth's influence on us and the city, Bernard Hare, Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew... And the possibility of a more committed group to develop a dialogue on development in Leeds... Support this podcast

John works as an independent consultant / critical friend to individuals and groups working across all sectors but primarily with NGOs and public sector organisations. He has over 40 years of experience working in post 16 education. His particular passion is understanding and learning about collaboration from individuals learning together to organisations wanting to work in 'partnership'. He is attached to three UK universities and sits on the Global Advisory Board of the TELLAL Institute based in Dubai. In September 2020 he was due to be taking a train from Los Angeles to Orlando for a month to write about the conversations he has as the USA goes through the 2020 Presidential Campaign. He is co-editor of the Sage journal Teaching Public Administration and co-editor of an international book series for Palgrave on Community-University Connections. He is fascinated too by both what we learn when we collaborate as well as what we unlearn. In 2013 he was the Founding Director of Edge Hill's Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice (I4P) - now the Institute for Social Responsibility. I4P was set up to provide a bridge from the university to the outside world and to support connections going the other way. Imagined as a cross boundary multi disciplinary initiative it acted as a hub for shared learning and knowledge exchange. How we imagine such developments philosophically, intellectually, ethically as well as practically has, always, intrigued him. We talk about: American literature and politics, Manctopia/Mancmageddon and East Manchester regeneration under New Labour Obama, Trump and Hillary and Bill Cultural shifts (Clinton nearly lost the democratic nomination because of an affair - Trump builds an election campaign on the back of them) American Presidents and the Rapture... Personal Experience, Data or Science - what do we follow? NHS Improvement or Transformation - lessons from Covid Schools and Education - what do they actually teach? The role of imagination in transforming public service Words you don't see in public policy position statements Marmot and widening inequalities The role of interdisciplinary explorations and imagination How might we relocate power through networks and alliances of influence The post pandemic context and why we might not reach it Stranded in the strategic high peaks You can find John on twitter @ProfJohnDiamond Support this podcast

Mo originally trained as a clinical psychologist. He has a BA in Psychology, an MSc in Clinical Psychology and a second Masters degree in Creative Conflict Transformation through the Arts. For 25 years, Mo has worked with organisations to deliver innovative and professionally-rooted leadership development and coaching programmes. His main area of expertise is Organisational and Personal Transformation, with a particular focus on authentic leadership and narrative approaches to communication and conflict transformation. Mo works with InterBe. The name InterBe is inspired by The Order of Interbeing, founded by Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. We share his belief in the interconnectedness of all. In our experience, no change ever occurs in isolation. When we change, we change the people around us. Similarly, when the people around us change, we inevitably change too. Our work with businesses and groups of people focuses largely on the importance of the relationships with those around us, which are created by the stories we tell and the conversations we have. InterBe's work is influenced by many different thought-leaders, from ancient philosophies such as Taoism to modern day pioneers such as Sir Ken Robinson, Caroline Ellis, Warren Bennis and Michael White. Support this podcast

Tom Riordan talks about leadership and his career as a public servant including 5 years as CEO of Yorkshire Forward and 10 years as CEO of Leeds City Council. Mistakes? Proudest achievements - and why they are not on his official Council Bio, Mayors and why they are good and bad, climate, inequalities and what on earth do we do...? Can Kindness really be the answer? Support this podcast

Glasgow born and educated, David was the Chief Executive of GTG Training from 2004 until 2014 and a specialist adviser on Youth Training and Development to the Board of Arnold Clark Automobiles, the parent company of GTG Training, where he originally started work in staff development in 1999. Previous roles with Arnold Clark included Direct Marketing Manager and Sales Development Manager. Immediately prior to assuming his appointment at GTG Training he headed the project team responsible for the Arnold Clark Management Development Programme and subsequently championed the introduction of their highly successful Sales Academy in his capacity as head of Group Training & Development. David has been a member of the Goodison Group in Scotland since its formation in 2004 to bring together experienced people from the worlds of business, government and education to focus on particular themes to do with learning, skills and productivity and served on the Glasgow Employers' Board/Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Youth Employment Advisory Group. He serves on ad-hoc advisory groups for Scottish Government initiatives such as the Scottish Business Pledge and is an assessor for business growth funding and support competitions such as Scottish Edge and the Unlocking Ambition Programme. Some within the Scottish Business Community may also recognise him as Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) David Scott where his final appointment was as a Staff Officer at Brigade Headquarters prior to which he had been Commanding Officer of 51 (Scottish) Brigade's Regional Training Centre, an Army Reserve establishment working to standards set and audited by the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Prior to 1999 David worked mostly in his own family-owned businesses in wholesale distribution to UK FMCG clients and his own retail outlets. He funded his early years in more junior ranks within the Army Reserve by employment within the Financial Services industry. When not working, studying or researching, David is a Marine Mammal Medic with British Divers Marine Life Rescue and a Level III trained specialist with their Large Whale Disentanglement Team. David has also served as a Sea Shepherd Cove Guardian with operational experience in Taiji, Japan, Seal defence campaigns around Scotland and as a member of Sea Shepherd UK's covert operations team in the Danish Faroe Islands documenting illegal whale and dolphin massacres. Support this podcast

I met Ruby at the NHS Leadership Academy in Leeds where we both work on various programmes. Ruby is a talent and leadership developer an executive coach, facilitator speaker and pracademic - practitioner and an academic! We come from different generations, different backgrounds, different cultures, and different cities. In this podcast we explore what has shaped us and what continues to shape us in our leadership practice. We talk about doing and being, collusion, Born to Run, race, gender and what growing up taught us. We also talk about social mobility, straddling two worlds and the pain that can involve...   Support this podcast

Mike Chitty and Brigid Russell in conversation about #spacesfolistening. Support this podcast

Rebecca is part of Kaizen Arts Agency based in York. Rebecca's mum has been a nurse in the NHS for 40 years. Kaizen say of themselves: "We are design activists. Everything is both learned and designed. Dogmatic assumptions inhibit enquiry. We are the in between. We are an ecosystem that spans planning, measuring, mapping + acting. We won't stop improving things, and we won't ask permission or apologise.  We design space and time. We are designers of the past, and of the future. Art asks the questions, science sets the scales, design finds the balance. We work on continued research and practice in interdisciplinary arts + science. You might want to work with us on some of these examples, you might not. Whatever can happen will happen. we consult on strategic thinking and planning we cultivate and facilitate playful and meaningful projects for people and their spaces through continued public engagement and audience development - through constant and continuous exchange of power and perspective we empower organisations and communities listening to each other, and find ways we can work together to deliver lasting change with, by and for our ancestors we collaborate. we are collective - we are not just one, we are also one. we don't do IP we do sharing. Trust is our only currency, and the only form we are willing to fill in  we design for distribution, inclusivity and with dynamic social purpose we work within the arts and sciences to find out what stories have been told, question perspectives, and we re-write" Support this podcast

We talk about the importance of listening, reading the room and Kantor's Dialogue model, grief, vulnerability and boldness and much more. We talked for over two hours... Brigid says of herself I have been a self-employed coach and leadership consultant for the past five years or so. Before that I worked in the public sector in leadership and team development, as well as working as a management consultant within an international consultancy for over ten years. I have lived and worked in Scotland for just over twenty years. I was born and brought up in Oxford, though my family origins are in South Wales and the West of Ireland. I'm at a stage in my life where I want to support those who can make a real difference to our public services, and our civic society. My husband, Jim, died of leukaemia in February 2020. He believed as much as I do in making a positive difference to others, of being kind; he wanted me to be doing meaningful work. I see leadership as being all about the relationships between people, and across parts of a system which are inter-connected and inter-dependent. It is about connecting with purpose, making a positive difference to people's lives. I'm particularly interested in exploring how leadership develops in practice. I believe that developing leadership goes way beyond expertise in theories and models. It starts with who we are as people, our humanity, and our relationships with the people with whom we work and right across our communities. This is why I believe in a relational approach to leadership development. It is also why I've been so drawn to finding and creating more spaces for listening to each other, and having more open conversations. And that's part of the inspiration for being involved in #SpacesForListening with Charlie Jones. Find Brigid on twitter at @brigidrussell51 Support this podcast

Kay Sidebottom is a lecturer in Education and Childhood at the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University. Her specialism is teacher education (lifelong learning) and her background is in community and further education, where she has taught a range of subjects. In addition to teaching on Childhood Studies, Kay is involved in the delivery of the new Post Graduate Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring. Kay's current area of focus in research is the application of critical posthuman theory in teaching and learning. She is currently researching the ways in which educators can work with posthuman thinking in order to reimagine education for the 21st century and beyond. Other recent research projects include the use of restorative practice and Thinking Environments in education leadership; using interdisciplinary approaches (such as art and poetry) in teacher education, and employing philosophical enquiry as a pedagogical method for pro-social education. In this podcast we discuss... The privilege to speak our truth without fear...Black Lives Matter...Leeds and Whiteness Spinoza and from pain to joy Indigenous Leadership The architecture of the Civic Hall and its purpose Art Activist Barbie Why Me? Why Here? Why Now? De-centring the man from human and the human from everything else... Support this podcast

Anne Cooper had had a long and distinguished career as a nurse in the NHS and is now a non-executive Director at Yorkshire Ambulance Service and Clinical Director of https://www.ethicalhealthcare.org.uk/ (Ethical Healthcare). Until recently Chief Nurse at NHS Digital, Anne is immensely experienced and highly regarded figure within healthcare informatics. A national leader in driving the digital nursing agenda, she has experience in strategy and leadership development, requirements and design, clinical safety and deployment. As a T1 Diabetes patient, she is also a passionate advocate of ensuring the patients and citizens have an equal voice in the health and care system. Outside of both work and being a Twitter addict (@anniecoops) In this podcast we talk about the humaness of leadership, leadership as friendship (and what we do about bad friends), women only leadership development, matriarchy and patriarchy, slime making, and the nature of female only community - where Anne breaks the code! Support this podcast

Lou Mycroft has been working nomadically for several years now, guided by an ethics of joy. She brings people together in community, to think, make efficient decisions and implement plans which change cultures. She is a Thinking Environment facilitator, writer, public speaker and coach and translating this work to online spaces has been a revelation. She is co-founder of the https://twitter.com/search?q=%23JoyFE (#JoyFE)L movement and its influential ‘Ideas Rooms'. She has particular strengths around creating spaces to think and the creation of effective, bespoke culture change programmes. She tries to be joyfully militant in everything she does. She is very interested in wellbeing, particularly mental health, and developing personal agency (her first career was as a Public Health Specialist). She is a member of the https://twitter.com/MHFECrowd/ (@MHFECrowd) and was the winner of the EduFuturists 2020 Staff Wellbeing Champion Award, even though she doesn't have a ‘staff' or even a proper job. Support this podcast

In conversation with Emma Bearman of https://www.playfulanywhere.fun/ (Playful Anywhere) we talk about play, Leadership, being side by side rather than following someone who is in front. We talk about the power of provocation and discomfort, innovation and novelty. Playful Anywhere CIC is a Leeds-based social enterprise with a mission to catalyse creativity, inventiveness and playfulness, where we work, live and travel. They have a proven track record of delivering high-quality fun participatory events, programmes and activities. They have devised and delivered festivals, open space events, civic participation, networks, playful tech labs, young inventor programmes, building launches, panel events, team builds, place change activities, websites and community activities. They take care of the smallest detail, creating meaningful experiences whether it's a one to one or a huge family festival. They bring teams together to deliver high quality experiences, and have a long-standing reputation for excellence in culture and heritage, public art and realm, art and urban landscaping, fundraising, digital and social media engagement.  Blurring the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds, encouraging participants to get creative with all manner of media, from cardboard to code. Support this podcast

Just a quick trailer for my podcast series helping you to become a better leader. You can find it at https://be-a-better-leader.captivate.fm/listen (https://be-a-better-leader.captivate.fm/listen) Mike Chitty @mikechitty Support this podcast