Part of the Optify Tools for coaches webinar series. Join Elaine Herdman-Barker and Richard Izard as they explore the life-enhancing Transformations Cards deck. 

Our first GLA Community Webinar session of 2024 took place on Wednesday 28th February where we were delighted to welcome Chuck Palus, Richard Izard and Jasmine De Clerck as our special guests. 

HBR recently reported that every year $60B is spent on leadership development. Yet anecdotally, much of the highest quality content and ideas target middle-to-senior leaders of large companies. And with so much being invested in creating leadership development products, is it any wonder they are expensive? But if our geo-political and sustainability challenges mean our world needs transforming, how can we make leadership development more scalable? Can we democratise it? What does that even mean? How do we prepare the ground so that it can be scaled?

Webinar highlights video coming soon.

Our last GLA Community Webinar session of the year took place on Monday 27th November where we were delighted to be welcoming writer, researcher, facilitator & coach, Valerie Livesay as our special guest. Valerie was joined by Chair & Partner for Mutual Growth…and the search for the common good at Global Leadership Associates, Elaine Herdman-Barker. Together, Valerie & Elaine explored Fallback as a human experience….the good, the bad and the ugly’.

Webinar highlights video coming soon! 

Our third session in GLA’s Community Webinar series took place on Monday 18th September. Hosted by GLA’s Partner, Danny Morris, we were delighted to welcome special guests Bill Pullen, Head of Coaching at GLA and Aman Gohal, member of GLA’s Coaching Bench to our panel where our theme was Vertical Coaching and Inclusion.

The second session in GLA’s 2023 Community Webinar series took place on Wednesday 26th April. Hosted by GLA’s Partner, Danny Morris, in this session, we heard from members of our community on how people are using the GLP and Vertical Development with leaders and organisations. We were delighted to welcome Christopher Chang Duffet and Sue Coyne, both part of the GLA practitioner community – Sue is a transformational leadership and team coach working internationally across sectors and Christopher is a coach and psychotherapist working with a number of sectors including the Canadian military.

The first session in our 2023 calendar took place on Wednesday 18th January. Hosted by GLA’s Partner, Danny Morris, alongside special guests Professor Bill Torbert and Niklas Lindhardt, in this session we asked ourselves, ‘Why should we bother giving attention to the Opportunist action-logic?’ In our GLP database of corporate leaders, nobody profiles at Opportunist. When it’s talked about with groups or in programmes, it’s easy to move on quickly from. But wait! It’s there in all of us. What’s the upside to it? Is there an upside? What are the implications for leadership and organisations? A rich discussion ensued, thank you to all who contributed to a fabulous session.

Our third session took place on Wednesday 29th June. Hosted by GLA’s CEO, Richard Izard, alongside special guests, Dan Gresham (Director of Global Learning at Kearney) and Jenny Mackewn (Director of community interest company, Reconn3t) we explored the theme of Organisational Development through a Vertical lens. 

Our last session in the 2022 season took place on Tuesday 4th October. Hosted by GLA’s Partner, Danny Morris, alongside special guests including GLA’s Co-Founder, Professor Bill Torbert, GLA’s CEO, Richard Izard, and member of GLA’s International Coaching Bench, Aman Gohal, in this session we explored why late-Achiever and early-Redefining is such a key transitional phase and its implications for organisations.

The first session in this new series took place on Tuesday 19th January. Hosted by Richard Izard and featuring GLA President, Elaine Herdman-Barker alongside Director Emeritus, Professor Bill Torbert, we heard from Bill on his new article, “Warren Buffett’s and Your Own Seven Transformations of Leadership” and also shared our latest data insights during the session.

This second session in our new quarterly webinar series took place on 21st April 2021 where our theme was ‘Developing Redefining Interventions‘. Hosted by GLA Co-Founder, Richard Izard with Karen C. Yeyinmen, Elaine Herdman-Barker (GLA President), Professor Bill Torbert (Director Emeritus) & Danny Morris (GLA’s International Coaching Lead) contributing, the session focussed on practical tactics to help leaders release the potential of their Redefining thinking.

Our third Webinar session took place on Wednesday 7th July at 12pm EDT/5pm UK for 1hr 15 minutes. Hosted by GLA’s International Coaching Lead, Danny Morris and featuring GLA Co-Founder & MD, Richard Izard alongside special guests – James Cameron, Vice President Global Leadership and Learning for Walmart and Bettina Baechtold, Director Leadership Development at Novartis – the theme for this session was Where First meets Third – Transforming Organizations Through a Vertical Approach.

Our fourth session in our new quarterly webinar series took place on Wednesday 13th October. Hosted by GLA’S International Coaching Lead, Danny Morris alongside special guests, Professor Bill Torbert, Elaine Herdman-Barker and James Baker (Head of HR, Overseas at Jaguar Land Rover), the theme for this session was ‘Why do so few Redefining leaders transition to Transforming?’