Listen "Steve Hearsum"
Episode Synopsis
Steve Hearsum has worked for over 20 years as an organisational consultant, coach
and more recently supervisor. He has a keen interest in the human side of change,
which in recent years that has grown into a fascination with how shame and anxiety
drive behaviour in organisations, particularly at senior leadership levels. He supports
and challenges clients to find their ‘edge and stretch’ when what they are after is
more than simply ‘better sameness’, and has been described as ‘the right kind of fly
in the ointment’.
His work focuses on building change capability in three main ways. helping leaders
develop their practice in terms of how they show up and the impact they have;
working with internal and external consultants and organisational change
practitioners of many a hue to develop their consulting skills; and culture work more
generally. He published his first book, No Silver Bullet: Bursting the bubble of the
organisational quick fix, in 2024, is a Council Member of the Tavistock Institute of
Human Relations and former Co-Chair of the OD Network Europe.
and more recently supervisor. He has a keen interest in the human side of change,
which in recent years that has grown into a fascination with how shame and anxiety
drive behaviour in organisations, particularly at senior leadership levels. He supports
and challenges clients to find their ‘edge and stretch’ when what they are after is
more than simply ‘better sameness’, and has been described as ‘the right kind of fly
in the ointment’.
His work focuses on building change capability in three main ways. helping leaders
develop their practice in terms of how they show up and the impact they have;
working with internal and external consultants and organisational change
practitioners of many a hue to develop their consulting skills; and culture work more
generally. He published his first book, No Silver Bullet: Bursting the bubble of the
organisational quick fix, in 2024, is a Council Member of the Tavistock Institute of
Human Relations and former Co-Chair of the OD Network Europe.
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