UK Leadership Inquiry/Collabor8 group

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Oasis offered UK leaders the opportunity to become involved in an innovative learning process, aiming to evolve new learning in the field of leadership and leader development, employing the emerging participative research paradigm of Co-operative Inquiry – reflecting a commitment to collaborative learning and leadership.

Participants represented organisations from a range of settings and held roles from CEO to Project Leader.

Those involved explored core questions of responsible leadership and how it lives in the role of leaders, their organisations, their wider work and in the influence they bring.

“The approach brought a high level of relevance to the real issues leaders have to contend with and gave those taking part an opportunity to move beyond theory and practice and to look at the living experience of what it means to be a leader.”

Bryce Taylor

Participants deepened their appreciation of their leadership approach, widened their contextual understanding, shaped their future direction and developed a greater appreciation of the possibilities and challenges of a collaborative approach to leadership.

The inquiry contributed new learning about the development of more collaborative, enlightened and responsible leadership for those directly involved, their organisations and the wider context – social, ecological, human and economic.

It resulted in the formation of the Collabor8 group.

The members were all leaders or directors in not-for-profit or public sector organisations, exploring the true meaning and practice of collaboration within and between organisations and communities, and promoting collaborative and responsible leadership in the public realm.