Do All Leaders Need a Stretch Class?

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Short Description

A recurrent problem for all leaders is how to keep the show on the road while creating the space for change, i.e., how to manage in the current flawed system while trying to reform that system. Yet for no leader is simply coping a sufficient approach. Instead, we need to see mission, possibility, management, leadership, and innovation as links in a chain of improvement. With decades of experience, two senior UK public leaders — Matthew, a former adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair who is now leading RSA, a 260-year-old organization focused on enriching society and shaping the future through ideas and action; and Michael, the founder of the Coventry University Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, established just three years ago — will launch a thought-provoking conversation on the real-life challenges and strategies of leading and sustaining complex organizations.

Detailed Abstract

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Sub Unit

• Public Leadership

Chair

• Matt H. Qvortrup, Coventry University

Presenters

• Matthew Taylor, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

• Michael C. Hardy, Coventry University