John Inman-Unlocking Wisdom to Lead in a Complex World
I have an interesting background. I invested years helping build small to medium sized enterprises focusing on creating quality practices and high levels of customer responsiveness. I then earned my masters in OD and Training and have combined all of my knowledge, skills, and...
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John Inman-Unlocking Wisdom to Lead in a Complex World
I have an interesting background. I invested years helping build small to medium sized enterprises focusing on creating quality practices and high levels of customer responsiveness. I then earned my masters in OD and Training and have combined all of my knowledge, skills, and abilites to help create organizations that are human centric and attract and keep high performance team memebers.
The model of leadership that I teach is based on my life's work of creating learning, rapport, relationships, and performance through conversation. My framework is Conversational Leadership and this is how I drive a change in how leaders interact with their team members and teams. I have created a simple Conversational Leadership model that I use to explain my framework. Over 20 years building organizational practices and structures attracting and retaining high quality team members and profitably delivering high value to customers. Develops trust and rapport with people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, ages, and professional and technical levels. Leads organizational change, fosters team cohesion and increases employee morale and performance. Agile in dynamic environments and able to move initiatives forward successfully.
Leadership Mission:
There is no where to go and nothing to do except be of service.
Learning Mission:
Dedicated to the development of capacity and capabilities in adults for change and growth.
I love books but alas, I am dyslexic and reading is quite a bit of work for me. For this reason I tend to read in the areas below to try to keep up with the demands of my career. I am never successful in keeping up. There is so much to learn and so little time. When I do read for pleasure, I am fairly specific what I will read as I just do not have the time. Right now I have on my reading list and wish list 54 books and at my pace this will take me 5 years to read. For those of you who read quickly, you do not know how luckly you are. My son is that way. I love to learn other cultures, beliefs, points of view, and get to know others. I love open conversations but do not like debate. I accept others as they are rather than think that they should conform to my underlying assumptions. So if you would like to connect and share ideas and cultures, I would love to meet you. And by the way I do not inflate my reading list. My books are accuratly catalogued. I for instance do not understand how someone can have 40,000 books they have read. At a book a day, that would be 110 years worth of reading. So if it says I have read the book on my bookshelf, I have.
Research focus:
Process Facilitation
Living/Organic systems
Sustainable systems
Conversational learning
Collaborative learning strategies
Learner centered, outcome based frameworks
Story telling
Conversational Leadership
Coaching
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