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Powerbrokers International Leadership Placements
January 2008 - March 2011
Reflections and Legacies of Leadership Learning in an International Context
This report explores the outcomes and impacts of the leadership learning journeys of the eighteen UK leaders from black Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds that completed placements in Barbados, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Singapore, Senegal and the United States of America. The paper gives prominence to the learning interventions and processes that helped these associates (recipients of the placements) to improve their overall performance and to take their leadership to a different level. The outcomes and impacts are evidenced by the words of the associates and their hosts. Foreword by Oliver Nyumbu, CEO, Caret
Reflections & Legacies 14 March, 2012, Royal Society of Arts
Associates:
Beverley Sterling, Padma Rao, Carole Morrison, Lynda Rosenior, Valerie Chang, Archana Kalyana, Delia Barker and Asif Khan
Hilary Carty, Director and Diane Morgan, CLP Project Manager, CLP
Oliver Nyumbu, Caret
Maureen Salmon, Freshwaters
CLP’s Powerbrokers Journeys and Discoveries event
8 July 2010
Nurturing ‘diversity in leadership’ in the cultural sector and more widely is as important as it ever was: diversity is a 21st Century reality. This is illustrated by the words of Lord Boateng at the CLP’s Powerbrokers Journeys & Discoveries event on 8 July 2010: “In our world ‘people of colour’ are in the majority... we are the face of 21st Century Leadership”
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Leadership and Diversity Encounter
November 2009
This debate on ‘leadership and diversity’ at the Centro Cultural São Paulo was shaped as a BBC "Hard Talk", it brought together an impressive list of senior cultural leaders and a younger generation including the two associates, Carole Morrison and Dawinder Bansal.
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Cultural Leadership: Global Focus
28 November-3 December 2009
This symposium on leadership journeys was organised by in the National Art Gallery Committee Barbados in the context of the Caribbean Curatorship and National Identity Conference. An impressive panel of international cultural leaders including the two Associates, Delia Barker and Asif Khan.
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Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College
We are proud to be working with Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College, one of the capital’s largest vocation education and training institutions. There are over 25,000 students, 2,500 are from 112 countries from around the globe. In July 2010, we began cultivating a relationship with the College which led to us working with the Ethnic Minority Staff Network to design and deliver a professional development programme for its members in 2011 in the context of Excellence Through Learner First – A strategic plan towards 2012. The outcome of which will support the implementation of the action plans through Action Learning Sets. We are also helping with the reposition and re-launch of the Network as an influential resource that reflects and celebrates the rich ethnic and cultural diversity of the College.
Building on the success of our work with the Network, Freshwaters has been commissioned to design and deliver a leadership development programme for middle-managers across the College in 2012.
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UK Trade & Investment in collaboration with British High Commission outward mission - The Caribbean Development Bank, Barbados
29 January-2 February 2012
Freshwaters is pleased to be participating in the UK Trade & Investment Aid Funded Business Service in collaboration with the British High Commission outward mission to the Caribbean Development Bank and other development aid funded businesses based in Barbados including the regional offices of the Inter-American Development Bank, Europe Aid and DIFID.
Our aspirations for this mission are to strengthen our existing relationships, cultivate new alliances and explore opportunities to help develop people, organisations, communities, and the economic wealth of the Caribbean. In line with our values and objectives to strengthen our international portfolio, we are passionate about sharing our expertise; learning from the Barbadian experience and transferring learning at all levels to ensure long term economic prosperity and sustainability across the region.
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Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination University of the West Indies, Barbados
February 2012
We are privileged to be able to continue working with the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination (EBCCI) by designing and delivering the module ‘Leadership and Management’ as part of the Master Arts in Creative Arts. Under the leadership Professor Gladstone Yearwood, EBCCI plays a crucial role in the development of the culture and creative sector in Barbados and the Caribbean. With the increasing importance of the arts and culture in the international economy, the Master of Arts programme focuses on capacity building to develop human resources in the creative arts, to integrate the arts in schools’ curricula and produce high quality art that benefits the Caribbean and support the growth of the arts and culture sector.
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WOW - Women of the World Festival, Southbank Centre London 7-11 March 2012
Having participated in WoW Thinking last Autumn, we are excited about our involvement in WoW Festival 2012. On 8 March we will be offering mentoring in mass speed mentoring which will involve women from all fields and industries, and all ages. It’s about women supporting women while focused on a particularly professional challenge or issue.
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Graeme Mortimer Evelyn’s Debut Solo Show Commonwealth Club, London,
2 April-31 May 2012
We are indeed, very proud to be working with Graeme to produce his first solo London show. Since meeting Graeme at the Curatorship and National Identity Conference in Bridgetown, Barbados in 2009, we have cultivated a creative relationship and having spent an afternoon at his studios, experiencing nearly 15 years of his work, there was mutual understanding of working together. First, to support his personal professional development as an artist and cultural leader. Second, to secure new commissions in the UK and the international arena. Third, to develop and promote his work to new and diverse national and international audiences. This solo London show is the start of an exciting new journey for Graeme who in our opinion is one of the most amazingly talented artist and cultural leader/thinker of his generation. Working with Graeme has inspired us to work with other artists.
Graeme’s work have been displayed and collected in Gloucester Cathedral, The African American CenterPrinceton University, Cornell University New York, Museum in Docklands London, Watershed and M-Shed, Bristol and international private collections.
Following a recentseries of high profile commissions, Graeme has developed areputation for creating worksituated in municipal buildings and places ofworship that subvert thesesettings and philosophies, acting as a catalystenabling the questioning and democratisation of public spaces. Graeme was the first Artist-in-Residence at Stephen'sChurch (Bristol UK) and was commissionedto create thenew permanentcontemporary altarpiece; the Reconciliation Reredos unveiled January2011 by the playwright, actor and broadcaster, Kwame Kwei Armah.
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Working with Berkshire Consultancy
As an associate of Berkshire Consultancy, we were part of the teams that helped to win two major leadership development programmes in 2011 and so we delighted and proud to be involve the delivery of these programmes in 2012. The first project is the National Offender Management Service leadership development programme aimed at developing the talent of black and minority ethnic and disabled senior managers by supporting, challenging and equipping them with business and leadership skills required for success in the most senior positions and that reflect ongoing organisational changes and priorities. This programme is a key initiative in increasing minority group representation and diversity across the Probation Trusts, Prison Service and Youth Justice Board. The second project is the NHS Master-classes in the context of the Breaking Through Programme forblack and minority ethnic staff. Berkshire has been selected to deliver 11 master-classes to cover a range of topics, from resilient leadership andstrategic planning to commercial skills.
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