Coaching and Mentoring

Kenny has been the Principal of George Green’s Secondary School in East London for 15 years. She is a firm believer in distributed leadership as a way of moving a school forward and has written on this subject in TES.

Professor David Megginson explores the big organisational question of what a coaching culture might look like and how it might be attained. He outlines the research and findings from the book he wrote with David Clutterbuck – Making Coaching Work: Creating a coaching culture. He also outlines the practical experience that has emerged from pursuing the path to a coaching culture.

Professor Ralph Stacey delivers an MBA Masterclass on the modern obsession with leadership in organisations. From 22 March 2011

Ralph Stacey is Professor of Management and Director of the Complexity and Management Centre at the Business School of the University of Hertfordshire in the UK and a Member of the Institute of Group Analysis. In this Masterclass, given in March 2010 he explores how we might think about management if we take the uncertainty of organisational life seriously. He appeals to the sciences of uncertainty and complexity to suggest an understanding of leadership and management as the ordinary politics of daily organisational life.

Louise is a Professor at the London Centre for Leadership in Learning, Institute of Education, University of London and a freelance researcher and international consultant. She is a former President of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and School Improvement.

Ralph Stacey is Professor of Management and Director of the Complexity and Management Centre at the Business School of the University of Hertfordshire in the UK and a Member of the Institute of Group Analysis. This Masterclass, given in November 2008, considers recent developments in management and leadership in organisations.

Andy is Director (Teaching Schools) at the National College and a National Leader of Education. His previous experience includes headship of two London secondary schools. He has recently published two books, Making School Work and What Makes a Great School?

David is visiting professor in coaching and mentoring at both Sheffield Hallam and Oxford Brookes Universities. He is one of Europe’s leading writers and thinkers on management and is the author or co-author of more than 50 books.

Coaching is currently enjoying enormous popularity as an approach to leadership development and management performance, but how can we make sure that it delivers what it promises? What are the myths and how do they get in the way – or help? What are the risks? What are the challenges faced by every coach? What do we need to do to make sure every session has high, positive impact? These are some of the questions we need to ask to ensure that coaching will deliver results, so that those who commission coaching can see the benefits for their organisation. Jenny Rogers draws on her extensive experience in leadership and executive coaching to address these questions and share her experience of what really works.