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What are the thoughts of the global coaching community on the effects of the pandemic and the future coaching landscape as we start to consider the new normal? This Executive Report on Future Trends in Coaching provides an overview of a study undertaken with over 1000 professional coaches.

Thousands of workers have been heading back to the office over the past month or so. As they do so, the prizes and pitfalls of hybrid ways of working are already becoming reality. The opportunity to shape the patterns and practices is now. How will you respond?

If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it is how quickly and unpredictably our lives can change. How do we prepare for the future when uncertainty is the only certainty? This thought piece draws on principles from complexity science to explore the connections between the past and the future in the here and now.

Are boards well equipped to deal with changing operational, strategic, technological, financial and ESG issues? How will this new reality influence board priorities and do board directors have the skills to tackle these challenges? Read the Board Transformation 2021 report to learn more.

Working from home has become part and parcel of life during the pandemic, but will the homeworking trend continue? Dr Miriam Marra discusses the future world of work in part two of two in her series on technology and hybrid working.

Nuclear power is key to ensuring a sustainable way of living for future generations and must not be dismissed by leaders, argues Professor Brian Scott-Quinn.

It’s a busy world out there! But is all this 'busyness' really necessary? Or are we being swept away in an unproductive (but strangely satisfying!) rush of activity and stress? Could we be more effective in the way we manage our time, energy and focus and actually accomplish more, as Leonardo da Vinci suggested, by working less?

In our latest European Perspectives Professor Andrew Kakabadse discusses the need for stewardship to become more embedded in the governance of Europe.

A study of board leadership has highlighted a number of issues that should be of interest to all business leaders, senior managers and board members.

Narendra Laljani was a very good teacher. He taught strategic analysis to executives for many years. But at the back of his mind lay a nagging doubt: was he teaching the real ingredients of strategic success?

Henley Business School published new research into racial equity in UK businesses. Our aim was to understand the reasons racial inequity still exists in workplaces, and the barriers and challenges to overcoming it.

In the last 20 years, we have worked hard to design leadership learning that delivers both intellectual and emotional impact. For a while, this has all worked very well but then we started to become aware of the impact of the digital society on leadership populations around the world plus the pandemic hit. This development has given us the permission to challenge the sacred cows of learning and to experiment with new ways of doing things to work out how we build communities of leaders virtually.