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Ep. 26 - Next Stage Radicals: The Collective Impact Agency #Changing-organisations-and-changing-systems

This month’s guests are Andy Crosbie, Abby Taylor, and Anya Bonner. Together they run a community interest company called the Collective Impact Agency, which exists primarily to help people and organisations deepen their impact through collaboration. They work on disrupting the systems that stand in the way of socially minded organisations and people doing what they’re there to do – make the world a fairer, more equal place. In this podcast, we explore the idea that ‘you can’t change systems without changing the organisations that make up those systems’ – and how the Collective Impact Agency is trying to operate in a fundamentally different way both internally and externally.

Ep. 25 - Next Stage Radicals: Anna Whitehead #Curiosity-and-connection

This month’s guest is Anna Whitehead. Anna is developing a portfolio career. As a qualified coach, with a Diploma in Executive coaching, she coaches individuals on work-related topics, while keeping a focus on the whole person. In this podcast Anna and fellow radical Pilar Orti explore where Anna's curiosity has been taking her and the connections she is making in relation to some of the things she cares about; making society more inclusive for neurodiverse people, improving mental wellbeing at work and cultivating kindness.

Ep. 24 - Next Stage Radicals: Sarah Yardley #Relational-reach-and-relational-glue

This month’s guest is Dr Sarah Yardley. Sarah is a clinical academic, combining clinical practice as a Consultant in Palliative Medicine with a Honorary clinical senior lecturer position at UCL, where she holds a THIS Institute post-doctoral fellowship. In this podcast we explore the importance of relationships in creating public services that work. Sarah introduces the concepts of 'relational reach' and 'relational glue' and we explore the challenging, real world situations that people find themselves in as they strive to do the right thing.

Ep. 23 - Next Stage Radicals: Steve Chapman #Re-weirdening-the-world

This month’s radical is Steve Chapman. Steve is an artist, writer and speaker interested in creativity and the human condition. He works as a consultant and coach with individuals and organisations who are interested in finding creative and counter-intuitive ways to free themselves from ever-tightening loops of common-sense where creativity, novelty and change are rather difficult. Amongst other things, this podcast explores why we are often at our best when we are on the edge of not knowing what we are doing.

Ep. 22 - Next Stage Radicals: Gary Wallace #Whole-systems-for-whole-people

This month’s radical is Gary Wallace. Gary works in the Office of the Director for Public Health in the city of Plymouth and is a member of the Plymouth Alliance Leadership Team. His work there, with colleagues from across communities and public services, has pioneered a radically different way of thinking about leading, commissioning and improving public services. As a founding member of the Human Learning Systems collaborative he generously shares and builds on the insights of that work with others, while continuing to support initiatives in Plymouth across a wide range of issues. In this episode we discuss (i) appreciative listening as a strategy for 'at scale' transformation (ii) why programatic approaches to transformation fail (iii) why where you start doesn't matter.