Each action-learning workshop will be facilitated by two experienced action-learning facilitators.

The lead facilitator Phil Glanfield, BA, MA, MBA, MSc is an independent organisation consultant and an associate of Ashridge, the international business school.  Phil helps individuals, senior teams and whole organisations raise their performance – whatever the starting point. He led a national team providing ‘turnaround’ support to the NHS and now works with a range of clients in the public and voluntary sectors, who are seeking to innovate and improve, often through new partnerships and alliances. He is a highly experienced facilitator of action-learning and has published a number of articles and book chapters on related topics of teamwork, performance, effective boards and sustainable change.

The Masterclasses

Masterclass I: The Future of Work and Organisations

Professor Peter Totterdill is the Founder and Joint Chief Executive of the UK Work Organisation Network (UKWON), a coalition of employers' organisations, trade unions, universities and business support organisations committed to the development and dissemination of new ways of working. He is also a Visiting Professor at Kingston University, London. Previously, he served as European Policy Director at ECOTEC Research & Consulting Ltd., and as Director of The Work Institute at Nottingham Trent University. An internationally renowned expert on the future of work and organisations, Professor Totterdill has extensive experience of the workplace change and innovation agenda at EU, national and enterprise levels.

Masterclass II: Leading Sustainable Change

Dr John Knell is one of the UK's leading thinkers on the changing face of work and organisations and is co-founder of Intelligence Agency. Previously Director of Research and Advocacy at The Work Foundation, his writings on the impact of the new economy on the labour market have been instrumental in shaping emerging attitudes to employee relations, and he has authored numerous reports on work, organisational change, and public policy. John is a regular contributor to the Top Management Programme for senior civil servants run by the Cabinet Office, and is also a frequent public speaker and media commentator on workplace and public policy issues. John’s corporate clients have  included Microsoft, Tesco, Astra Zeneca, Eversheds, Lloyds TSB, Manpower, and Siemens.

Masterclass III: High Involvement Innovation

Professor John Bessant, BSc., PhD. currently holds the Chair in Innovation and Technology Management at Imperial College Business School, London. He previously worked at Cranfield, Brighton and Sussex Universities.  In 2003 he was awarded a Senior Fellowship with the Advanced Institute for Management Research and elected a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, and in 2006 became a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute.  Author of 15 books and many articles, he has acted as advisor to various national governments, international bodies including the United Nations, The World Bank and OECD and companies including Lego, Novo Nordisk, Mars, Toyota, UBS and Morgan Stanley.

Our Partners

The High Performance Leadership Programme 2009 will be delivered by Perform Higher in partnership with the UK Work Organisation Network (UKWON).

UKWON was created in 1998 as a not-for-profit coalition including a wide range of employers’ organisations, trades unions, professional bodies and universities. Its aim is to help close the gap between leading-edge practice and common practice in workplaces, promoting organisational change and innovation in ways which build high performance through employee involvement and job enrichment (see www.ukwon.net).

UKWON works at several levels including:

·      the provision of policy support to public organisations such as the European Commission, national governments and local/regional authorities;

·      research into emerging practice relating to work and organisations;

·      the development of new tools and resources to support participative forms of workplace innovation;

·      practical support and consultancy in the workplace, including practice audits, benchmarking, dialogue facilitation, change management, network-based learning, management and trade union development, and accredited courses.

UKWON’s activities seek to build strong bridges between research and practice, and draw on an extensive network of researchers, consultants and practitioners from across Europe.