Our History

Launch of One Thing at a Time Programme

20 April 2020

Launch of One Thing at a Time Programme

In response to the Covid-19 crisis and based upon conversations with public services partners, the programme ‘One Thing at a Time’ is launched. Over the course of 8 weeks, the below topics were offered as a gentle framework for exploration:…

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CLFS Hosted Scotland’s Life-Affirming Leadership Programme with Meg Wheatley

28 March 2020

CLFS Hosted Scotland’s Life-Affirming Leadership Programme with Meg Wheatley

Together with Margaret Wheatley, Collective Leadership for Scotland co-hosted a residential training programme in March 2020. The programme ‘Life-affirming leadership: Developing the skills of insight and compassion – Warriors for the Human Spirit Training Programme’ provided a learning and training…

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Renamed as Collective Leadership for Scotland

4 November 2019

Renamed as Collective Leadership for Scotland

With a significant growth in interest in our work on Collective Leadership and a strong recognition that this approach is one of the key components in addressing the complex challenges we all face, we confirmed our new name as Collective…

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Collective Leadership hosted Learning Event ‘Perseverance’

2 October 2019

Collective Leadership hosted Learning Event ‘Perseverance’

The event, hosted in collaboration Margaret Wheatley, bring 130 leaders from across public service and beyond together. Its focus is to explore what it takes to persevere in times like these. Read more about this event in our blog post…

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Work with Academy of Systems Change

1 August 2019

Work with Academy of Systems Change

Begin working with Academy of Systems Change to tell the story of Collective Leadership in Scotland.

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Margaret Wheatley Becomes Thinking Partner

2 February 2019

Margaret Wheatley Becomes Thinking Partner

Writer and practitioner in systems thinking and leadership, Margaret Wheatley, becomes our thinking partner. Specialising in Organisational Behaviour, Meg’s approach includes Systems Thinking, Theories of Change, Leadership and the Learning Organisation and believes in the idea that “real social change…

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Peter Senge Becomes Thinking Partner

1 November 2018

Peter Senge, systems scienties and senior lecturer, becomes thinking partner of Workforce Scotland.

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Launch of New Territories for Evaluation Paper

1 November 2018

Launch of New Territories for Evaluation Paper

The research paper ‘Collective Leadership: Where Nothing is Clear and Everything Keeps Changing – Exploring New Territories for Evaluation’, authored by Dr Cathy Sharp was published. You can read this paper here: https://collectiveleadershipscotland.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/collective-leadership-where-nothing-is-clear-and-everything-keeps-changing-february-2019.pdf

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Launch of Scotland’s New National Performance Framework

1 July 2018

Launch of Scotland’s New National Performance Framework

The frameworks sets out a vision of national wellbeing for Scotland, and charts progress towards this through a range of social, environmental and economic indicators. The focus shifts to improving outcomes and how our actions will improve the quality of…

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Lauch of Collective Leadership Programme

1 January 2018

Lauch of Collective Leadership Programme

The Collective Leadership programme was launched at a meeting at the Scottish Leaders Forum.

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