Steve Hearsum
What happens when your anxiety kicks in and you do not know what to do?…
Executive Coach, Supervisor, Author & Change Practitioner
Steve helps leaders move beyond ‘performative learning’ to develop the practices required to act as instruments of change. His work centres on helping clients find their ‘Edge’ – the point where certainty fades – and the right degree of ‘Stretch’ to foster real learning. The goal is to develop reflexive muscles, in service of helping clients to sense shifting organizational rhythms and learn how to dance differently when the music changes.
An accomplished educator and supervisor, Steve is an APECS Accredited Supervisor and Professional Executive Coach. He serves on the faculty for the Future of Organisations module on the Mayvin Masters in People & Organisation Development (University of Chichester) and teaches on the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations’ coaching programme, where he also serves as a Board Member.
Steve is the author of No Silver Bullet: Bursting the Bubble of the Organisational Quick Fix. He holds a Masters in Change Agent Skills & Strategies and brings an eclectic professional background – from developing business models at The Guardian to launching the UK’s first Digital Leadership Programme at Roffey Park Institute.
Join him for his workshop –
he primary reason clients hire consultants is because they are experts in something. Whether they have that expertise or not is another matter… And when things happn that indicate we are in uncharted territory, that means conditions are ripe for anxiety to be evoked, for practitioners self-narrative and ego ideals to be be challenged, and even the possibility of shame to evoked.
In this session, Steve Hearsum, author of ‘No Silver Bullet: Bursting the bubble of the organisational quick fix’, will scaffold a chewy conversation around our collective experience of our own vulnerability and fragility when we do not know what to do because we are so far off familiar territory that expertise and rationality become useful but insufficient.
Expect:
– Questions
– An invitation to consider our own responses to not knowing
– A touch of absurdity
Don’t expect:
– Easy answers
– A ‘drive by’ session: this is an invitation to participate not observe
– Endless slide decks
