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Mayvin (def: ‘trusted expert in a particular field’) is a specialist Leadership and Organisational Development company. The company was founded in 2010 by our Directors, Martin Saville and James Traeger, both of whom were formerly Senior Consultants at Roffey Park Institute.

We have a network of Associates, and we are supported by an Advisory Board, which enables us to stay on the leading edge of our field. We also work as partners with some of the most prestigious OD, HR and Leadership Development organisations.

We believe in, and practise, wise business. We explain what we mean below:

Wise Business

What we’re committed to

Wisdom balances innovation and experience, courageous vision and practical delivery - we will design with you, from a wide range of possibilities, activities that have the most powerful impact using the least time and resources
Trust is about values and competence - We will work to earn your trust
You will gain value at every stage of our work for you
We will question and listen at all levels
We will work with you to create your story of the present and shape your future
We will help you know and value what you do best
We will challenge you, exposing the gaps and adding to your system what’s missing
We specialise in developing your hi-potential talent, your next generation of leaders equipped for the 21^st century
We will support you to develop your overall capacity to do this for yourself and then let go

What we’ve done

Developed a global vocational management qualification for a Steel Company that has transformed the culture of operations on steel manufacturing sites
Delivered a top team leadership programme for a family run logistics company that has shifted the business towards a more sustainable culture
Enabled the Business Process Reengineering department of a Telecoms Company to be better equipped to communicate and deliver required efficiencies
Delivered a successful programme for a Strategic Health Authority that both taught Organisational Development to a group of high flyers and delivered useful change within the organisation
Left a senior team of a local authority more confident and grounded because they were able to tell their story of complex change as they face a turbulent period

Articles

Embodied Leadership

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

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.