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Where do you live and work (City)?

Live Haddington. Work Edinburgh

What are your top professional skills?

Organisational Development
Action Science: skills to detect, discuss and correct errors made in the middle of action.

What kinds of management education and development services are you involved in?

Reflective Practice. Team development. Strategic thinking

What is your main interest in the AMED network?

inspiration, collaboration

Please share your favourite management development insight or quote.

“We live in an era of intense conflict and massive institutional failures,
a time of painful endings and of hopeful beginnings. It is
a time that feels as if something profound is shifting and dying
while something else, as the playwright and Czech president, Václav Havel,
put it, wants to be born: “I think there are good reasons for suggesting that
the modern age has ended. Today, many things indicate that we are going
through a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way
out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something were
crumbling, decaying, and exhausting itself—while something else, still
indistinct, were rising from the rubble.”
TheoryU Introduction Otto Scharmer

What kind of person are you?

Morning

More about you (Short Bio or any other details you’d like people to know)

People matter to me. My preference is to walk with individuals groups ,teams, communities and organisations, listening with care and compassion, offering frameworks, theories and practices that enable people choose wisely.

What I’d like from the AMED network is…

People who value the competence and skill that I have. People who a passionate about growth development life and love!

What do you do for your own development?

Ensure I have good supervision. Ensure that my life, relationships , social space, holidays are respected.
Look out for stimulating reading, conferences.

Your Business Website

http://in the making!