Organizations are changing fast, driven by emerging new technologies and globalization,that makes our world smaller and more inter-dependent.  This demands new forms of leadership.   

Coaching also has to make a step change, and shift its paradigm from offering coaching tools and technique approaches that mimic the machine metaphor of 20^th century management thinking,

‘find the tools to fix the problem’.

The 21^st century organizational and leadership metaphors are networks and eco-systems, in place of control and hierarchy.   Leadership has to become more adaptive, ethical and distributed and coaching has to discover ways of supporting these ‘Eco-Leaders’ (see Western 2008, Leadership a Critical Text, Sage for full description of Eco-Leadership). 

Dr. Simon Western

Dr Simon Western is the founder and Director of Analytic-Network Coaching Ltd.  He coaches and consults to c-suite leaders in global business and in the public and not-for-profit sectors.  Recent clients have been London Business School and IMD Business School, Switzerland, Gobal OD teams in the international banking sector, and the Hospice and Education sector. 

www.simonwestern.com / www.analyticnetwork.com

Previously he was Director of Coaching at Lancaster University Management School, UK, and a Family Therapist.   Simon is an active academic, andwill next year publishCoaching and Mentoring a Critical Text by Sage Publications. 

Simon is a Quaker, and is inspired by the early Quaker’s imperative to ‘living adventurously and letting your life speak’.  He holds the following positions:

Honorary Teaching Fellow Lancaster University Management School

Honorary Associate Fellow Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck University

Senior Fellow Birmingham University

Associate Tutor Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre

Member ISPSO and OPUS