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Mayvin - A specialist Leadership and Organisational Development company
Mayvin /‘meIvIn/ def: [also Maven - Yiddish/Hebrew]: ‘trusted expert in a particular field’
Advisory Board
The Mayvin Advisory Board has been established to extend and deepen Mayvin’s understanding of its work in organisation and individual development. By gathering together experienced and innovative leaders Mayvin’s Advisory Board will support thought leadership as well as formalising best practice within our field.
Its members meet to discuss and debate key themes, relevant to organisation and individual development in order to provide Mayvin’s consultants with information about current business and organisational trends as well as practical advice and new ideas relevant to our work.
Mayvin hosts an annual meeting during which our expert Advisory Board members engage with Mayvin consultants and associates to review significant events and look ahead to the prospects for the future in organisation consulting.
Each year they will be invited to consider a discussion paper produced by Mayvin on a substantial theme. The output will form the basis of an article or longer publication for the benefit of Mayvin’s clients.
Tony Fraser
Tony founded and successfully led his own organisation consulting business from which he retired in 2008. He held senior management positions in large corporations in Human Resources, Strategic Planning and Business Development. This business track is complemented by psychotherapy training to enable him to work with people on emotional and relationship as well as business issues.
Professor Linda Holbeche
An established author, commentator, consultant and developer, Linda Holbeche is a thought and practice leader in the fields of leadership, HRM and organization development. Regularly judged an HR Power Player by Personnel Today and voted 3rd most influential HR thinker by Human Resources Magazine in 2009, Linda is co- Director of The Holbeche Partnership, a research-based consultancy providing services in strategic leadership, change management, organisation development (OD), HR capability and high performance working.
Articles
Why Facilitate?
James Traeger makes the business case for excellent facilitation and offers his thoughts on the crucial ingredients for success.
More articlesView our track recordJames 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)
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.