Be a Better Leader

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.

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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💛 movement and its influential ‘Ideas Rooms’. She has particular strengths around engagement, digital resilience 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 @MHFECrowd and is currently developing new thinking around health, wellbeing and empowerment, particularly for women.

She has been nominated for an EduFuturist 2020 Award as a Staff Wellbeing Champion, even though she doesnt have a ‘staff’.

Find her on twitter @loumycroft and on the net at loumycroft.org

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...

‘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/

Mick Ward: Commissioning Through Influence

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.

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/ and on twitter as @tonypiper

And, if LinkedIn is your thing https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonypiperuk/

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.