The idea of Brown Bag Lunches is to provide a low-cost high-networking place for you to come together for mutual support, to pick each others’ brains, pick up ideas and business and have fun – with a bit of learning thrown in, so we can feel virtuous – and write it off as a business expense!
Six business coaches have generously donated their venues. The idea is we all bring along our own lunches, and even bring our own coffee. This enables us to keep the costs right down: two hours of great networking and learning for just £20 + VAT booking fee. To book for any of the lunches click on the buttons below. Most venues are smallish so there will be a maximum of 30 people per event – first come first served!
Timing is the same for each event: 12.00 - 2.00, drop in any time between then. Informal speaker and Q&A/discussion from 12.30 to 1.00, before and after entirely devoted to networking and mutual back scratching!
Dates and speakers for 2010 are:
Wednesday 3 March
West End location
Speaker: Richard Hunt and John Stopford
A Brown Bag first – two speakers in a robust debate on whether you need to have different skills, attributes and experience to coach at CEO level, or not. Richard Hunt has been a CEO himself for many years in a variety of businesses, and has coached CEOs in the tough fields of global transport and logistics for more than two decades. John Stopford is Emeritus Professor of Strategy at London Business School, and has taught or coached, he estimates, over 500 CEOs on five continents. John is also chairman of The Learning Partnership (TLP) and is currently researching with FTSE100 Chairmen current practice on Board Assessments.
Thursday 20 May
City location
Speaker: Michael Chaskalson
Michael Chaskalson was catapulted into the limelight at the Annual Lecture last year, when neuroscientist Professor Felicia Huppert reported that one of the world's biggest research studies on what it takes to live well into advanced old age, named "mindfulness" as one of the five factors. But what is it, and how do you and your clients do it?! Michael has run Mindfulness for Coaches courses for some years (see www.mindfulness-works.com) several Business Coach Graduates have attended, and given him rave reviews; here's an opportunity to have a brief taste of what mindfulness is all about.
Thursday 1 July
City location
Speaker: Mandy Rutter
Mandy Rutter is one of Europe's leading experts on the psychology of crisis situations: she has worked with countless teams to prepare them for the Big One, and advised firms pre and post 9/11 and 7/7. She's fascinating on what happens psychologically in a crisis – and has a toolbag of extremely useful tips and techniques, and sage advice, for coaches when they find themselves with panic all around. Let us pray it never becomes relevant for us – but if you want to be prepared…
Wednesday 8 September
City location
Speakers: James Kneller
James Kneller is an NLP Trainer and Master Practitioner, (groan…) and has worked extensively on NLP and DHE (Design Human Engineering) with Richard Bandler himself (don't groan again – there's a 'but' coming:) BUT he's also a dyed in the wool, forthright and devastatingly funny cynic! This is utterly unique - a person who is deeply informed about the subject, but hasn't been captured by it. James explains it clearly and powerfully, while being ruder about some of its wackier fringes than you or I would dare. Unmissable.
Thursday 4 November
City location
Speaker: Wendy Lord
In March two CEOs talk in practice about leadership coaching; and we finish the year asking psychologically is it different?! Wendy Lord, Chief Psychologist at Hogrefe, a test publisher known for its independence and intellectual rigour, will discuss a key tool to use with leaders, the Leadership Judgement Indicator (LJI) and will also discuss “blending” psychometrics, i.e. complementing the specific insight of the LJI with the gold-standard NEO for personality.