Dr Caroline Rook & Dr Can Ererdi “Do we need more resilient leaders? What does creating team resilience mean? What is a resilient organization, and what does a culture of resilience mean in this context?” These are the questions that the first webinar of the of the Henley Centre for Leadership Leading Healthy and Productive…
An MBA is a journey of self-discovery and personal development
Ivana Vasic Chalmers was the winner of our 2016 Women in Leadership scholarship. Here she shares her top tips from her time studying for her MBA. An MBA gives you a breadth of view. My colleagues came from businesses from all over the world, from non-profit to mass markets, from solo entrepreneurs to global giants…
Alison’s essay entry for the 2021 Women in Leadership competition
“The number of women on the boards of top companies overall remains far below 50%, and few make it to CEO. How can organisations, policymakers and individuals encourage greater female participation at the top?” It’s not women’s careers that need fixing—it’s men’s. It took a global pandemic for my friend, a director in a City…
Here’s why you should apply for the Women in Leadership Scholarship
24th of May, 2021. The deadline I had been working towards for some time, to submit my application for the Women in Leadership Scholarship competition. For quite some time, since I first read the details of the competition I had been managing two different lines of thought: What should make the cut to the concise…
Can Personal Development start a movement?
Dr Chris Dalton, Henley Centre for Leadership We are coming to the end of our second year with COVID and the last 12 months have provided no shortage of leadership and change subjects worthy of comment from a business school. The climate crisis, the COP26 event in Glasgow, the emergent and unintended consequences of past…
How do I know if I’m doing the right things?
Prof David Pendleton, Professor in Leadership How many hours do you work in a typical week? Probably too many. Your family would probably like to see you more. Your friends likewise. You may well need to take more exercise, to read around your subject or just for interest, to do those jobs at home that…
Choosing Henley Business School for my Masters study
By Janelle Benedict, MSc Digital Marketing student I knew coming from a city-based university in the Midlands to a campus-based university in the South-East would be different; but I was pleasantly surprised to find it was different in all the best ways. You can go from shopping in a Korean food shop to getting a…
COP26, silence of the leadership development, and the band on the Titanic!
By Professor Bernd Vogel, Henley Centre for Leadership It is the last day. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the opening of COP26 said, “Enough of killing ourselves with carbon. Enough of treating nature like a toilet.” Compare that to conversations amongst leadership development academics, practitioners, or clients. I often feel like a member of…
The Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Agenda
By Cheryl Hurst, Lecturer • Leadership Organisations & Behaviour As a diversity and inclusion researcher with an interest in fulfilment and a background in organisational psychology, I am sometimes asked to speak at events and conferences specifically to HR professionals. It can be difficult because you never know the type of room you’re walking into…
Career sustainability and the purpose of education
Dr David Pendleton, Professor in Leadership, Henley Business School Eight years ago, I was sitting at a large dining table in a private dining room in the St Louis Club, having just arrived from the UK via Chicago. I was surrounded by 20 of the great and the good from that fabled midwestern city who…
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