Every year we host the Meyler Campbell Annual Lecture, where world experts in their field come to shock, surprise and challenge us into new thinking in coaching.
The 2008 Meyler Campbell Annual Lecture will be delivered by Dr Paul Babiak, author of Snakes in Suits, about psychopaths in the Boardroom and the implications for coaching.
The lecture takes place on 12th November at 5.45 for 6-7.30pm at the Royal Society of Medicine Lecture Theatre, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE.
.Professor Herminia Ibarra, formerly of Harvard, now of INSEAD, and author of “Working Identity”, one of the top ten essential books for coaches, spoke about her new research on the identity shift people must make to grasp the strategic, complex, roles at the very top – and the types of transformational experiences that aid this critical leadership transition.
Professor Carol Kauffman, who has taught for twenty years at Harvard Medical School, and has herself over 35,000 hours of one to one work, challenged coaches to re-orient their approaches given the startling research results from the new science of Positive Psychology. Her Lecture ranged from research results round the world, through the convergence of technology and coaching, to some of the early practical applications and tools spawned by Positive Psychology.
Professor Felicia Huppert, neuroscientist and Co-Director of the Centre for Study on Ageing at Cambridge University, devoted her Lecture to the revolution now occuring in life expectancy. Peoples’ “mental maps” about life expectancy are often 15 to 20 years short of the new reality: a tertiary-educated British middle-class male aged 60 is now predicted to have average life expectancy of 91. Professor Huppert challenged coaches and leaders to re-evaluate their financial models, fundamental assumptions, and pay-off periods for investment, against this data.