Hi, I'm Carl, the founder and director of relationships for change.
I love connecting people to the joy and wonder of learning and turning that into impactful action and change.
I believe that relationships are at the heart of all change and transformation and want to help people do what matters by learning what matters.
I'm joyful, playful, mission-driven and recognised for fostering creativity and innovation, I bring over 20 years of experience leading strategic change and supporting leadership in Local Government. I'm passionate about change, leadership and learning.
I'm known for simplifying complexity and inspiring teams to achieve high-impact results - increasing organisational effectiveness.
Expertise:
- Complex Organisational Change
- Leadership Learning
- Organisational Design & Development
- Creativity in Delivering Value and Impact and new ways of working
- Digital Transformation & Innovation
Key Strengths:
- Strategic leadership focusing on root causes and a systemic perspective
- Designing and Implementing learning experiences for leaders and teams grounded in real work
- Leading complex transformation and improvement leading to lasting impactful change
- Designing organisational vision, strategy, and values
- Building highly-trusted and effective relationships, empowering individuals, teams and organisations to achieve their full potential.
- Inspiring innovation, connection, creativity, and a culture of play
- Encouraging alternative perspectives and challenging conventional thinking
- Grounding theory into practical application and current context
Accolades:
- Guardian Public Services Award Winner (Leadership Excellence)
- Local Government Chronicle Top 100 Most Influential in Public Services
- Fellow of The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Additional thoughts and reflections
I also enjoy blogging, where I share my thoughts, reflections and ideas - I use Medium as the home for my Journal. You can also subscribe by email here
I have also published in a few other places on the web.
My approach to working with individuals, teams and organisations that I know works:
- Understand you and your context
- Support and challenge to learn by doing in ways that are grounded in real work and that help develop new ways of thinking and acting over time.
- Provide a thoroughly tested set of practices, tools, methods, and processes that enable, accelerate, and share learning in order to grow and scale for impactful action.
- Build capacity, not dependency, for you, your team, service area and organisation in a way that is self-sustaining, scalable, and continuously evolving.
Legal Stuff
Relationships for Change is a registered limited company: number 15829087
The registered company office address:
First Floor Lipton House, Stanbridge Road, Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom, LU7 4QQ