Meyler Campbell Digest: January 2025

Each month we share the latest from Meyler Campbell; we also let you know all the news from the community and details of upcoming CPD and how you can book your place in the Events area.  Featured each month in our Learn section, we share news from the community and a range of curated resources which we hope you’ll find useful and interesting. Near the end of the Digest, we share how you can watch previous Event Recordings and listen to the Meyler Campbell Podcast Series.

If you have any suggestions on content or news for upcoming Digest issues, please contact connected@meylercampbell.com.

Welcome Simon Fenton, Meyler Campbell Interim CEO

Before the festive break, we announced a change of leadership to the Meyler Campbell team with Simon Fenton joining as Interim CEO from 1st January 2025. Earlier this month, Simon shared a letter to the community to introduce himself and outline the future of Meyler Campbell.

“It is a great privilege to have been asked by the Board to take on this role, working with Catherine Devitt – who could ask for a better partner? I also wanted to add my thanks to Guy Ashton for all that he has accomplished over the last couple of years and we are pleased that he will remain part of our community.

Working to help others has always been one of my core values. Professionally, this led me to building my know-how around coaching and I was fortunate to graduate from the Mastered programme in 2020. Since then, I have been involved in coaching work with senior business leaders and am very firmly committed to the role coaching plays in helping businesses, organisations and broader communities. Of course, my coaching capabilities are outshone by many others involved in Meyler Campbell, and particularly our amazing Faculty.

Throughout my career, both at Spencer Stuart and my early life at Kleinwort Benson, I have been fortunate to have undertaken a variety of senior leadership roles in the UK, EMEA & Asia.  My commitment as Interim CEO at Meyler Campbell is to help the community achieve all that it is capable of.”
You can read Simon’s full letter here →

We hope that our community will join us in wishing Simon the best in this role. We know that he is very excited to hear from each and every one of our community to further foster excellence in the area of coaching as it relates to Mastered and beyond.

CALL TO ALUMNI | Will you help to spread awareness of Mastered amongst your peers?

Meyler Campbell has successfully delivered exceptional executive coach training and leadership development for over 25 years; all of our programmes are available in face-to-face, virtual, and blended formats.

We run regular Introduction to Mastered events, the latest event being only last week, where we invite those interested to take part in the event and be involved in a group Q&A opportunity. While this event has passed, we are inviting further recommendations from our alumni to help contribute to the ongoing syndicate forming with some really exciting and interesting participants.

We thank our alumni in advance for your help; a large part of the appeal of the Meyler Campbell Mastered programme is down to the quality of the recommendations we receive from you, the Meyler Campbell community.

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A SHORT UPDATE | Meyler Campbell & Harris Academy Ockendon (HAOC) 
Pro Bono Coaching Project
If you haven’t already watched the short video with Simmy Grover & Jo Rainer discussing the coaching scheme, you can do so by clicking here. Simmy has also shared a short update and a thank you to the volunteers for the coaching scheme so far:

“I’d like to start by thanking all of the coaches who volunteered for this project. Both myself and Jo Rainey, have been blown away by the incredible support and kindness the Meyler Campbell community have shown for this project.

We had a busy time matching coaches and coachees over the winter break and had a great kick-off call at the start of the year. We have 30 members of staff going through six sessions of coaching with a Meyler Campbell Mastered graduate coach. This is the first cohort of three that we will be running with Harris Academy Ockendon so there is plenty of opportunity to join this project as it continues. By the end of the project, every member of staff at HAOC will have had the opportunity to work with a coach. Our main objective is that staff feel supported with their professional development, are empowered by the work that they do and have the opportunity to self-reflect and increase their self-awareness.

This project will complement the amazing work that Jo and her team have already done and will continue the upward trajectory in improving teaching quality and student outcomes. I’d like to end with some eloquent words borrowed from Jo Rainey: “We are privileged to have the opportunity to have an impact on the lives of children we will never meet.”

Keep a lookout over the summer, we will be sending out another outreach for coaches for the second cohort of this scheme.”
Simmy Grover
Meyler Campbell Chief Science Officer & Faculty Member

EVENTS

Events from one of the world’s most vibrant leadership communities
Alongside ad hoc lectures, gatherings and other sessions, we run a range of regular events as part of our comprehensive CPD programme. See what events we have upcoming in the calendar, download the full events calendar here →.

Coaching Fishbowl with Sophie Turner
Thursday 27th February, 12:30pm – 2:00pm, In person

Do you coach lawyers? Are you tempted to? If so, this Fishbowl will be of particular interest to you. Our coach for this event is Sophie Turner, who introduced the pioneering Partner coaching programme at global law firm Pinsent Masons and who has been coaching in legal firms for over 18 years.
Register here →

Destressing Our Workplaces: An Introduction to the Mindful Business Charter with Moira Slape & Richard Martin
Tuesday 11th March, 5:30pm – 7:00pm, Virtual

Mastered graduates Moira Slape & Richard Martin will provide an introduction to the Mindful Business Charter, a practical framework to encourage us to be more thoughtful about the impact we have on each other and how small changes to working practices can have a positive impact on everyday pressure and stress.

LEARN FROM THE COMMUNITY 

Gareth Marlow – Push Up Challenge 

Meyler Campbell Alum Gareth Marlow is in the final stage of his 100 Push Ups in January challenge to raise money for Cancer Research. Today, he would have completed 3,100 push ups – we don’t know about you, but we think that’s a mighty big achievement!
Congratulations Gareth – help support his goal here →

Agile Leadership and Coaching

Read this article by Mastered graduate Teresa Ramos and learn more about agile methodologies and what it means to be an agile leader. As Teresa says “Agile leadership is a mindset steeped in alternative ways of thinking about, or approaching, situations”. Read more here →

How are you getting on with your New Year resolutions?

Alumnus Tim Johns shares how he is doing with his New Year resolutions and that he is, in fact, in the process of turning his Three Piece Life coaching course into a book. Read more here →

LEARN FOR YOUR INTEREST

Strategies for tackling complex failure

In a short video Amy Edmonson, author of Right Kind of Wrong, explains that by building psychological safety, people feel more comfortable speaking up about potential warning signs to complex failures early, even if those signals end up being false alarms.

How Do I Position Myself to Influence Senior Leadership? 

In this episode of Coaching Real Leaders, host Muriel Wilkins coaches a leader who is getting mixed signals from leadership. Listen as they work together to navigate a way to remain effective in influencing the senior team. Listen here →

Energy: The Leadership Superpower You Cannot Ignore

Read this Forbes article and be reminded that energy is a fundamental force of the universe. Coach and author Susanne Biro asks the question how often do we stop to consider the energy we bring to our leadership roles and the profound impact it has on those we lead? Read more here →
Five Keys to Sustained Executive Development for Busy Leaders
This article by SHRM gives five steps to set your executive development in motion. It looks at what holds many leaders back and gives guidance on how to move forward in your personal development, and in turn, enhance the development of your team. Read more here →

EVENT RECORDINGS

For those of you who were unable to attend, and those of you who did attend but would like to revisit, all webinar recordings can be accessed by Connected & Connected+ members here

PODCAST SERIES 

You can listen to all episodes of the Meyler Campbell Podcast series on the Meyler Campbell Connected platform. The series is also available to listen to on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.