Margaret Wheatley
Margaret writes, teaches, and speaks about how we might organise and accomplish our work in chaotic times, and willingly step forward to serve. She is co-founder and President emerita of The Berkana Institute, a charitable global foundation that works in partnership with a rich diversity of people around the world who strengthen their communities by working with the wisdom and wealth already present in their people, traditions and environment (www.berkana.org). She has written five books including Leadership and the New Science (in twenty languages and third edition).
Course: Fearlessness in the Face of Uncertainty
Rob Hopkins
Rob is founder of the Transition Towns movement and author of The Transition Handbook. He is a permaculture teacher and set up the Hollies Centre for Practical Sustainability in Ireland.
Course: Transition in Practice
Henri Bortoft
Henri has taught physics and the philosophy of science for most of his career. He has researched on the problem of wholeness in quantum theory under David Bohm and Basil Hiley, and now lectures and gives seminars on Goethean science as well as on the development of modern scientific consciousness. He is author of The Wholeness of Nature, an exploration of Goethe’s scientific work.
Course: MSc in Holistic Science
David Key
David is an internationally qualified outdoor leader with over 15 years experience working with groups in wild places to facilitate change. He is a fellow of the Centre for Human Ecology and co-led the postgraduate Ecopsychology module at the University of Strathclyde for seven years. He was a founding director of Footprint Consulting Limited where he worked extensively with organisational change. He now facilitates the WWF Natural Change Project with Margaret Kerr, while training as a psychotherapist.
Course: Ecopsychology: A Revolution at Home
Mary-Jayne Rust
Mary-Jayne is a Jungian analyst and an art therapist. Her many years of working in the area of eating problems has informed a wider interest in the cultural roots of consumerism and the links between gender and culture, soul and the land. Alongside private practice, she lectures and teaches in a variety of settings, as well as contributing to books and journals on the subject of ecopsychology. She has worked for two green NGOs. She grew up by the sea, and living beside water remains a source of great nourishment. See www.mjrust.net
Course: Ecopsychology: A Revolution at Home
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Course: Ecopsychology: A Revolution at Home
Patricia Shaw
Patricia is a Visiting Professor at The Business School, Hertfordshire University and a Guest Professor at Copenhagen Business School, where she supervises doctoral students taking an innovative complexity based approach to their studies of corporate and public life. She has three decades of experience as a consultant to many companies and public sector institutions throughout Europe, encouraging pioneering approaches to leadership, management and organisation development. Originally a physicist herself, she facilitated Brian’s first course at Schumacher when he was a scholar-in-residence and went on to collaborate with him on a number of occasions. She is author of ‘Changing Conversations in Organisations: a complexity approach to change’.
Course: MSc in Holistic Science
David W. Orr
David is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and Special Assistant to the President of Oberlin College and a James Marsh Professor at the University of Vermont. He has lectured at hundreds of colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and Europe and has served as a Trustee for many organizations including the Rocky Mountain Institute and the Aldo Leopold Foundation. His career as a scholar, teacher, writer, speaker, and entrepreneur spans fields as diverse as environment and politics, environmental education, campus greening, green building, ecological design, and climate change. He is the author of six books including Ecological Literacy and Earth in Mind. Read more http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/teachers/david-orr
Course: Cultivating an Ecoliterate Worldview: Person, Place and Practice
Mary Mellor is Emeritus Professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Northumbria University in Newcastle. She was born in Cornwall and studied at the universities of Salford (undergraduate programme in social science) and Newcastle (PhD study of the British Co-operative movement). Her academic career has been spent at Newcastle University and Northumbria University. Her teaching areas have included research philosophy and research oriented to social change, social theory, gender, development and the environment. She was founding chair of the Sustainable Cities Research Institute at the University of Northumbria where her main research areas were financial inclusion and alternative economic development. She is a founding member of the newly formed World Economics Association and is on the editorial board of several journals. She has served as a Councillor (Tyne and Wear Metropolitan Council) and has been a member of a number of organisations and networks around peace, green, feminist and socialist issues. She has also been actively involved in co-operative development and has published extensively on money and finance, financial exclusion, co-operation, sustainable cities, ecofeminism and social/ist economics. Her most recent books are The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource (Pluto 2010) and The Politics of Money: Towards Sustainability And Economic Democracy (Pluto 2002 with Frances Hutchinson and Wendy Olsen) Feminism and Ecology (Polity 1997).
Course: Money and Enterprise for a Sustainable Future
Chris Nichols
Chris is a consultant with over 25 years of experience in creative group work. He has been with Ashridge Consulting for nine years, and co-directs the strategy engagement group. He is an accredited Ashridge coach. He has worked globally with almost every sector: government, charity and commercial. He currently specialises in board level facilitation and the design and facilitation of large group explorative learning. Chris embraces innovative styles of work. He is co-counder of www.groundedcreativity.com, developed to allow non-verbal exploration of complex issues. Creativity, writing, poetry and art all find a place in his way of working. Chris is a widely requested and provocative keynote speaker across the domains of strategic thinking, deep risk and creative leadership responses. A close associate of Schumacher College, Chris is dedicated to facilitating and developing profound examination of the role of leaders and organisations in working in right relationship with the natural world.
Course: Artful Organisations
Tony Greenham is Head of Finance and Business at nef, the programme of research into reforming the financial sector and aligning the interests of society and business. He brings to this role his experience as a corporate stockbroker, commercial accountant and sustainability consultant. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, he worked in UK Equity Capital Markets first with Barclays Bank and then Credit Suisse where he advised household names such as Sky, GlaxoSmithkline and Debenhams. Prior to joining nef, Tony was working with the Transition Towns movement as a director of Transition Town Totnes and a business consultant for Transition Training and Consulting.
Course: Money and Enterprise for a Sustainable Future
Gustavo Esteva
Gustavo is an independent writer and grassroots activist. He works both independently and in conjunction with a variety of Mexican and international NGOs, grassroots organizations and communities. He has been a key figure in founding several Mexican, Latin American and international NGOs and networks. He prefers to call such groups “hammocks” rather than networks or coalitions, because they seek to accommodate themselves to the shape of their members’ initiatives rather than imposing requirements for collaboration. He is currently involved in the movement associated with the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca. Read more here: http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/teachers/gustavo-esteva
Course: Cultivating an Ecoliterate Worldview: Person, Place and Practice
Peter Reason
Peter is Director and Director of Studies of the Postgraduate Programme in Action Research at the University of Bath. He has published widely on co-operative inquiry and action research and has co-edited the Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice. His major contribution has been to the development of participative approaches to action research in the human sciences and in management, approaches variously referred to as “co-operative inquiry”, “participatory action research”, and “action science” or “action inquiry”. In these forms of experiential action research all those involved in the inquiry process are co-researchers, contributing both to the thinking that forms the research endeavour and to the action which is its subject. Peter started this methodological development in 1976 with his PhD dissertation, and is now recognized internationally as one of the leading theorists of this approach.
Course: MSc in Holistic Science
Ed Mayo
Ed is Secretary General of Co-operatives UK, the membership network for co-operative businesses, and has spent his career working to bring together economic life and social justice. From 2003-2009, he was Chief Executive of the National Consumer Council, and before that he rose to prominence as director of the New Economics Foundation (nef). He led nef from two to fifty staff, creating the leading ‘think-and-do tank’, looking at ethical market activity, local economies and public service reform. He was described by the Independent as “the most authoritative voice in the country speaking up for consumers”, while the Guardian has nominated him as one of the top 100 most influential figures in British social policy.
Course: Money and Enterprise for a Sustainable Future
Nigel Topping
Nigel is Chief Innovation Officer at the Carbon Disclosure Project. He launched CDP’s Supply Chain program and is now responsible for new programs and major development projects. Previously he worked for Lucas Industries before moving into operations and, subsequently, general management for BBA plc. Nigel was also a member of the MBO team and Group Supply Chain Director of TMD Friction, a global automotive component manufacturing company. Having worked in Spain, Germany, India, China, the US and the UK, he has extensive international experience and holds an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University. He recently completed his MSc at Schumacher College, where he studied climate science and the industrial response to global warming.
Course: Money and Enterprise for a Sustainable Future
Professor David Wheeler
David is Dean and Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Plymouth Business School. He joined the University from one of Canada’s most prestigious academic institutions, Dalhousie University, in Nova Scotia, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Management. David is an internationally recognised academic and business leader with more than two decades of senior executive level involvement in change management and sustainable business practice, research and teaching. He graduated with a BSc in Microbiology, holds a PhD from the University of Surrey and has worked for private, public and third sector organisations around the world including The Body Shop International, where he was a membership of the executive leadership team for seven years. In addition to consulting with many private sector organizations, he has advised the World Bank and the governments of the UK, Canada, Botswana, Nicaragua and Peru. David’s work with the third sector has embraced a wide range of assignments for organisations such as the Red Cross, Oxfam and Greenpeace.
Course: Money and Enterprise for a Sustainable Future
