Exploring a New Way to Create Leadership Capability

People Promise theme: We are always Learning, We are a Team, Voice that Counts

Harthill supports leaders to stay curious by introducing our internal storyteller (or ego), the mastermind in charge of our feelings, thoughts, and actions. They put our “meaning making” faculty in focus.

It is our “meaning making” that structures our experience, whether personally or professionally. Let’s explain ! This “meaning making” facility underpins everything we do. Every context in which we interact, is shaped by the meaning we are making in each moment. Meaning making is a core human faculty that influences how we make sense of our experiences, how we make decisions about the world as human beings and as leaders.

Using a Leadership Development Framework, and Vertical Adult Development model, Harthill explores how “meaning making” evolves with life experience and how this process is accessible to leaders, organisations and coaches to understanding the leadership capabilities that could support and enable staff to re-connect with their own development and growth.

Over the last 25 years or so Harthill has worked with over 13,000 leaders from organisations such as BP, Danone, HSBC, Deloitte and, perhaps most relevantly, NHS England. They support organisations, teams, leaders and coaches by developing their key capacities for working in complex, rapidly changing systems.

About the speaker

Ian Mitchell

For more than a decade Ian has worked closely with senior leaders and their teams as a supportive, yet appropriately challenging, systems focused coach with whom they can work through the complex issues and challenges that arise in times of organisational or personal growth, transition, and change. Acquired over many years, his key coaching skill is to help his clients to create for themselves time and space in which to make key decisions in otherwise stressful times and situations.

After spending some years as a youth worker in two of Belfast’s paramilitary-controlled areas during the N Irish ‘Troubles’, Ian moved to the financial sector where he held various leadership positions for many years.

In 2010, he established his own coaching and supervision practice, initially as a sole practitioner, but predominately in partnership with Sian Lumsden, now a fellow Director within Harthill. Currently the Association for Coaching (AC) Area Chair for NW Europe, Ian holds an MA in ‘Coaching Leaders through Transition and Change’ and a PGC in Coach Supervision. He has worked extensively in developing both internal and external coaches across the private, public and third sectors.

Ian works both reflectively and reflexively within coaching and supervision conversations; creating and preserving a psychologically safe space in which leaders and teams can identify and engage in a developmental way with their personal and systemic leadership challenges.

Siân Lumsden

Siân possesses great skill in establishing a trusting, creative and generative environment in which individual clients and, in particular, teams can do their best developmental work. She adopts a coaching style that encourages both vertical and horizontal development whilst offering clients a broad menu of approaches and methodologies arising from a career spanning over 25 years of leadership and team development work. Her work generates deep inquiry into compelling purpose in times of change and complexity, whilst creating space for teams to dismantle the obstacles that are obstructing their response to that purpose.

A highly relational coach working with Leaders, Executives and Teams and an experienced Leadership Consultant, Siân specialises in working with Boards, Top Teams, CEOs and C-suite Executives to help them clarify their purpose, leverage their key relationships and build meaningful connectivity across their systems. Her passion is to help leaders and teams build transformational relationships with each other and across their whole organisations.

Siân holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Business, Personal and Executive Coaching from University of Chester, is a qualified Team Coach (Team Coaching Studio) and alumnus of the 2019 Nautilus International Team Coaching programme and her work in team coaching has been widely received within a variety of organisations across NHS England.

After working for some years as a leadership trainer within the aerospace sector Siân established her own firm in the mid 1990s, working extensively with leaders and their teams within the banking, financial, and communications sectors. Over subsequent years she gained wide experience in the health and professional services sectors, eventually joining forces with Ian Mitchell to create a leadership & team coaching and coach training & development practice built around developmental inquiry and the exploration of meaning.

Additional information

This session may be recorded for training and development purposes available via CPFT learning platforms. By booking a place, you consent to being recorded.

This opportunity is free to those working for organisations delivering social or healthcare in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. All we ask is that you book wisely, cancelling your place if you can no longer attend to ensure others who can, could take your place.