Next Stage Radicals
33 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago -We are the Next Stage Radicals and we are on a mission to make work work better. We live and work in lots of different places, collaborating as a Community of Practice and "Exploring Aloud" together. Our podcast is one of the ways we do this; sharing what we are doing and learning so that you can learn with us.
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Claire Robinson #Unmasking-An-ADHD-Perspective-On-Life-In-Organisations
May 05, 2023 15:38 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBClaire Robinson is a social worker (by trade) who now works supporting organisations to create conditions for learning and authentic conversations. Claire has worked in the voluntary and public sector for the last twenty years where she has trained social workers, led organisations supporting people whose families are affected by substance misuse, campaigned for better recognition of neurodiversity and supported organisations to use storytelling for change. Claire is a certified Warm Data ...
Toby Lowe #Human-Learning-Systems-[Revisited]
November 30, 2022 08:31 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBHosted by Mark Smith, this second podcast with Toby revisits the theme of Human Learning Systems to understand the latest developments in the field of designing, commissioning, delivering, managing and improving public services for the real world. Toby is Visiting Professor of Public Management at the Centre for Public Impact and the main face, voice and agitator for the Human Learning Systems movement; an approach to public services which supports human freedom and flourishing by respondin...
Mark Smith #Bespoke-by-Default-[Revisited]
October 27, 2022 14:32 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBMark is the Director for Public Service Reform at Gateshead Council in the North East of England (UK). This is Mark's second podcast with Next Stage Radicals, revisiting the theme of bespoke-by-default public services and the ways in which these are radically different and cheaper than the conventional 'one size fits few' approach. Mark read physics and geography at university before training as a meteorologist, latterly realising that wasn’t for him. He used his research and statistical sk...
Iain Caldwell #New-visions-of-self
September 01, 2022 09:25 - 53 minutes - 49.6 MBIain Caldwell has developed a career around creating new visions for organisations, practices and people that can enable them to work in more effective, innovative and insightful ways. This work began with himself, creating a better version that could overcome difficulties and challenging circumstances. This personal change has inspired Iain to explore new ideas and connect with innovators from around the world. This personal & professional learning has been developed into practices that c...
Joy MacKeith #Social-provision-designed-for-humans
August 01, 2022 07:08 - 43 minutes - 40 MBJoy MacKeith has a background in the voluntary sector, in service delivery, research and consultancy. Twenty years ago her work on outcome measurement led to the co-creation of the Outcomes Star, now a suite of fifty tailored tools for supporting and measuring individual change. She is author of the report ‘Enabling Help’ which draws on twenty years of working with the Outcomes Stars to present a critique of the system of social provision and a vision of how it could work better for the peo...
Jenny Rose Smith #Receptive-listening-authentic-connection
July 14, 2022 09:43 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBJenny Rose Smith lives in West Wales and has committed her life to training both herself and other people to listen more deeply. She’s passionate about centering deep listening as a powerful act of service, with its inherent fruit of present moment, attuned, honest and authentic connection with ourselves and each other. Jenny has three decades of service management experience in the voluntary sector and 1-1 mentoring in educational support services. She now works in private practice offeri...
David Aula #art-and-harnessing-peak-experience-to-move-us-all
May 01, 2022 11:26 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBDavid Aula is the founder of Unfeasible. Unfeasible exists to create space in which people start to see that what they think of as ‘unfeasible’ can be done. Unfeasible combines insights and experience from personal, group and organisational development with the heart stopping potential of theatre to move from ’thinking’, through ‘feeling’, to ‘acting from who we really want to be as humans’. Unfeasible offers services at what David likes to call ‘All Quadrants, All levels”, borrowing from ph...
The Collective Impact Agency #Changing-organisations-and-changing-systems
April 01, 2022 06:00 - 47 minutes - 44 MBAndy Crosbie, Abby Taylor, and Anya Bonner run a community interest company called the Collective Impact Agency. The Collective Impact Agency 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. They do this through building relationships between and within organisations, and ...
Anna Whitehead #Curiosity-and-connection
March 01, 2022 19:04 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBThis 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. She works as an Associate Coach for Genius Within, coaching neurodiverse adults to be the best they can be at work. She is motivated to collaborate with others to improve things and also provides service improvement and change management consultancy grounded in syst...
Sarah Yardley #Relational-reach-and-relational-glue
January 01, 2022 12:43 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBThis 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. As a clinical academic, she’s interested in how people (patients, families, carers, and healthcare professionals) make sense of their experiences and how the meanings they create inform further actions, leading to a variety of consequences. ...
Steve Chapman #Re-weirdening-the-world
December 01, 2021 12:20 - 1 hour - 69 MBThis 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. Steve regularly give talks on creativity, spontaneity, human culture change, imperfection, stuckness, counter...
Gary Wallace #Whole-systems-for-whole-people
November 01, 2021 08:49 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBThis month’s guest 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...
Joeri Torfs #Beyond-institutions-creating-a-world-of-frictionless-person-to-person-engagement
October 01, 2021 07:31 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBThis month’s guest radical is Joeri Torfs. Joeri's mission is to create frictionless person-to-person collaboration, unmediated by institutions and underpinned by a novel socio-economic model which enables people to adapt and self-manage in the face of life challenges. Together with his partner Pim Ampe, Joeri pursues this through his work as an enterprise architect and as Operational Director at the Quality of Life World Foundation. In this episode we discuss (i) the presence of 'force' in...
Adrian Brown #Rethinking-government-for-a-VUCA-world
September 01, 2021 08:00 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBThis month’s guest radical is Adrian Brown. Adrian is Executive Director of the Centre for Public Impact (CPI) and has over 15 years' experience working on government performance and transformation in the UK and internationally. He has held a range of positions in the UK government, including stints at the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit, the Strategy Unit and as a policy adviser in the Prime Minister's Office. In his work at the Centre for Public Impact he is helping others to reimagine gove...
Owen Lewis #Sport-Wales-Journey-Into-Complexity-Friendly-Partnerships-Funding-And-Accountability
July 23, 2021 07:29 - 55 minutes - 51.8 MBThis month’s radical is Owen Lewis, Assistant Director of Sports Systems, Strategy and Services at Sport Wales. Owen has been at the centre of work to reshape the role Sport Wales plays to become better adapted to complexity. This has led to some radical and ambitious changes to how Sport Wales and its partners are thinking about their roles, the way that funding works and how accountability should be operationalised together. In this episode we explore (i) Why Sport Wales is doing this wor...
Toby Lowe #Human-Learning-Systems-A-New-Paradigm-For-Public-Service
July 01, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBResearch has shown time and again that public service isn’t designed or managed for the real world. Toby Lowe believes there is a better way and it's called Human Learning Systems. Public service can support human freedom and flourishing by responding to the unique context of each and every person it supports - and in so doing can create better outcomes for less money. Toby is Visiting Professor of Public Management at the Centre for Public Impact and the main face, voice and agitator for t...
Jose Leal #Discovering-Your-Radical-Purpose
May 23, 2021 20:09 - 1 hour - 68.1 MBThis month's radical is Jose Leal. Jose started his first business at age 16. In his 20s, he co-founded Canada's first automotive media portal. After ten years with the media company that acquired it, he quit as VP. Corporate life had taught him how not to collaborate. For nearly six years, Jose has focused on understanding human nature and collaboration, leading him to conclude that the fundamental challenge is to see our way out of 'the Force paradigm' and back to ourselves and each other...
Kathy Evans #Funding-Interdependence
April 30, 2021 09:33 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBThis month's radical is Kathy Evans, Chief Executive at Children England, the membership body for children's charities. We explore Kathy's vision of a world where interdependence and collaboration are recognised as the cornerstone of public services; a world beyond markets and citizens-as-consumers, and a world where each child is supported to flourish within what Kathy calls 'the ChildFair State". During her career as a social care practitioner and policy specialist, Kathy has been the Cha...
Laura Seebohm #Changing-Lives-Through-Trauma-Informed-Practices
April 01, 2021 06:54 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBLaura Seebohm is Executive Director for External Affairs at Changing Lives, a nationwide charity helping people facing challenging times to make positive change - for good. She has over 20 years’ experience in the statutory and voluntary sectors, working as a Probation Officer before joining Changing Lives in 2006. Laura developed particular expertise supporting women with experience of the criminal justice system, sexual exploitation and domestic abuse. With experience of policy at a local...
J. Kim Wright #Lawyers-As-Peacemakers-And-Changemakers
February 28, 2021 19:37 - 59 minutes - 55 MBThis month’s radical is J. Kim Wright. Kim is a legal systems entrepreneur - transforming the systems, ideas, approaches, and habits that have underpinned the legal system since… well, forever. Although based in the US, Kim’s work connects cutting-edge lawyers, like-minded professionals, and communities all over the planet. She writes extensively, teaches law, coaches and advises clients, hosts and mobilises action within the integrative law movement and plays a key role as a co-founder of t...
Paul Jocelyn #Insurgency-tactics-for-L&D
February 01, 2021 09:37 - 55 minutes - 51 MBFor 28 years Paul Jocelyn's career was at Tesco. Working in a variety of roles he was part of an ambitious business, relentlessly pursuing change at its growing edge; a shift to online and digital, going international, diversifying into new retail models such as Tesco Local, Tesco Express and Tesco Direct, a shift from groceries to groceries + everything else, and much more besides. In all of this Paul saw how learning and development at the growing edge of organisations needs to shift away...
Andy Brogan & Anna Smart #What-Is-The-Role-Of-Moral-Outrage-In-System-Change?
January 02, 2021 11:57 - 48 minutes - 44.9 MBAndy Brogan is founder and convenor of Next Stage Radicals, co-founder of Easier Inc and the Human Learning Systems Collaborative and a member of Society 2045 (a social action group). Based in Herefordshire (UK) Andy's work is all about creating better ways of working and better places to work. At the core of this he believes in the need for a profound shift from conventional models of accountability - which he argues dehumanise people and create systemic irresponsibility - to a fresh emphas...
John Lodge & Hesham Abdalla #Escaping-Role-Shaped-Boxes-To-Make-Skills-Count
December 01, 2020 08:28 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBJohn and Hesham are NHS Quality Improvement leads who have worked together to create the platform ‘Hexitime.com’, the UK’s first national skill exchange and time-bank for improving health and social care. In their day jobs, John is the Head of Quality Improvement for the London region of NHS England and Improvement, and Hesham is the Quality Improvement lead at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, and a Consultant Paediatrician. You can find out more about John and Hesham by: - Joining them on H...
Alex Papworth #How-Nature-Can-Help-Us-Organise-Together-In-Harmony
November 01, 2020 09:47 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBAs a one-time business analyst in one of the world's largest institutions (Lloyds Banking Group), Alex Papworth knows how big business works. He's seen it from the inside. He's also seen where it doesn't always work so well; for the people in it, those affected by it and for the world around it. Sitting at the centre of a £3bn transformation has given him a unique perspective. Understanding the importance of approaching change by looking at the world and his work in changing hearts and mind...
Jackie Le Fèvre #Flexibility-With-No-Loss-Of-Authenticity
October 01, 2020 08:37 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBJackie Le Fèvre lives in South Cheshire and is mum to 2 daughters, who she says teach her more everyday than she could hope to help them learn in a lifetime. Jackie works with values; in particular, exploring how understanding values can provide insight and meaning for motivation. She does this through her work at Magma Effect and in her everyday life too! You can find out more about Jackie: - on Twitter via @MagmaEffect - through her website at magmaeffect.com - in her blogs at nextsta...
Jeremy Cox #De-Taylorising-Work
September 02, 2020 11:57 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBJeremy Cox is a Partner at Easier Inc, where he helps organisations to create better, more human(e) ways of working and better, more human(e) places to work. Jeremy's work sees him challenging the conventions of Management 1.0 and the Taylorist ideas that gave rise to it. His approach aims to find the balancing point between the radical and the pragmatic, helping people to change what they can today while working away at the foudnations for a radically different - and better - future. You ...
Pilar Orti #The-Office-Optional-Workplace
August 03, 2020 08:29 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBPilar Orti is the Founder of Virtual Not Distant, where she helps organisations transition to an 'office optional' approach. ‘Office optional’ means that there is no dogma about where people should work - that the right workplace is whatever workplace supports someone to thrive. Pilar's work sees her challenging workplace conventions and creating thoughtful engagement with questions about what matters to us in our lives and at work, and how technology can help us to create workplaces that ...
Nicky Shaw #Emotion-Coaching-And-Next-Stage-Leadership
July 10, 2020 09:09 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBWith 22 years of practical experience as a nursery teacher, Nicky Shaw has developed a neuro-aware approach to supporting children’s social and emotional development. Gone are the behaviourist-inspired techniques of naughty corners, reward stickers and discipline-focused strategies. In their place are attachment-focused conversations and responses, rooted in empathy, that help children to build their emotional literacy and self-regulate their response to emotional triggers. The impacts of t...
Nick Parker #Creating-A-Next-Stage-Region-Of-200-Organisations
June 29, 2020 10:09 - 10 minutes - 9.84 MBNick Parker lives and works in the South West of England, while also acting as Council Chair for the 30,000 strong RSA Fellowship. His work is geared towards creating the South West as a 'next stage' region, where has already engaged 200+ organisations in exploring 'next stage' ways of being and working. You can find out more about Nick by connecting with him: - Through the Next Stage Radicals community of practice - At www.nicholasparker.co.uk - On Linked-In - On Twitter @nickpkr
Henry Stewart #The-Happy-Productive-Workplace
May 27, 2020 07:16 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBHenry Stewart is author of “The Happy Manifesto”, Chief Happiness Officer and founder at Happy - a London-based learning and consultancy provider that focuses on helping organisations to create happy and productive workplaces. Henry's work sees him supporting people to rethink the role of management, from being 'experts that tell' to being 'coaches that help and support'. You can find out more about Henry by: - Following or connecting with him on Linked-In. - Downloading the Happy Manife...
Saskie Dorman #Making-What-Matters-BAU
May 02, 2020 07:34 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBSaskie Dorman is a palliative care consultant in Dorset who has been working with local, regional and national colleagues to explore how to make what really matters to people business-as-usual. Her work has led her to challenge many of the conventional approaches to understanding and managing performance and to experiment with alternatives. You can read more about this here, where Saskie and colleagues describe what they have been learning about what it takes to develop a shared understand...
Mark Smith #Bespoke-by-Default
April 15, 2020 13:27 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBMark Smith is Director of Public Service Reform at Gateshead Council in the North East of England (UK). His work sees him challenging the conventions of standard setting and standardisation in order to pursue an approach to public service that he describes as bespoke-by-default. You can find out more about Mark by: - Reading his blogs on nextstageradicals.net. - Getting hold of him on Twitter via @MarkAdamSmith.
Introducing the Next Stage Radicals
April 15, 2020 13:15 - 1 minute - 1.29 MBOne year ago (in March 2019) around 100 people met in London to explore the potential for new and better ways of working. From this small event a community of practice has grown; people who are active in exploring what it means and what it takes to really make work work better. We call ourselves the Next Stage Radicals and we are launching this podcast as another way of Exploring Aloud; sharing what we are doing and learning - warts and all - so that others can learn with us. Join us as we t...