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21st Century Leadership: Collective Intelligence

James Traeger looks into the leadership skills needed to unlock Collective Intelligence (CQ) in 21^st Century Organisations.

21st Century Leadership: The Enabling Truth

Martin Saville discusses the need for 21^st Century organisations and leaders to seek out their own ‘Enabling Truths’ if they are to thrive.

21st Century Leadership: The Networked Leader

Tony Fraser argues that leaders of 21^st Century organisations who cannot work with social network media risk becoming increasingly remote and disconnected.

21st Century Leadership: The Search for Meaning

Tony Fraser looks at how 21^st Century leaders are needing to change their focus, moving away from control and towards meaning and purpose as a way of engaging with their organisations.

21st Century Leadership: Wisdom from Multiple Intelligences

James Traeger outlines the components of a shift that 21^st Century leaders are making from cleverness to wisdom.

Does Good Leadership have a Gender?

James Traeger takes an in-depth look at what it takes for organisations truly to create gender equality and why doing so is in the interest of us all.

Embodied Leadership

Martin Saville looks at Embodied Leadership, an approach to leadership development that involves working physically through the body.

Flying Lessons

James Traeger and Martin Saville take a light-hearted look at leadership through the lens of flying.

Managing mergers through Organisational Development

Martin Saville explores how companies can better prepare to walk up the aisle together by focusing people and culture as well as systems and processes.

The Black Hole: the unconscious

Mayvin Associate Consultant Penny Lock explains why it might be necessary for Learning and Development Practitioners to delve into the realm of the unconscious to better grapple with thorny issues of organisational life.

Why Facilitate?

James Traeger makes the business case for excellent facilitation and offers his thoughts on the crucial ingredients for success.

Why has Organisational Development failed people and organisations?

Martin Saville and James Traeger challenge Organisational Development professionals (including themselves) to step up and play a bolder game and offer their insights on how to achieve this.

James and Martin model good OD principles right through their training practice forging strong partnerships with both the training commissioners and the OD Practitioners on the programme. They supported the practitioners in moving from novice to practitioner, leading significant change initiatives in a complex environment, and helped us to develop as an OD community. In a very real sense they joined our team, shared our aspirations and challenges and helped us to think beyond them.”

Joanna Valentine, Senior OD & Leadership Manager (Strategic Health Authority)

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Mayvin Insights

The world is full of customers, clients and opportunities.
Like a weather system, the world is not predictable.
In human systems, the heart matters as much as the head.
The physical body matters as much as the heart.
Knowledge is not absolute - people’s perspectives and contexts matter.
There are different types of knowledge - insights and feelings matter as much as clear-headed reasoning.
People’s stories about what is going on matter more than the ‘objective’ truth.
Relationships, connections and politics matter.
Repeating patterns matter.
Diversity is a business-critical issue, not just an ethical one.
The world is ever-changing, messy and not always as it seems, but it is possible to find moments of clarity when the way forward suddenly becomes clear.