Quo Vadis Leadership Reflection Circles
Small group coaching for leaders at career inflection points.
Overview
Quo Vadis: Where are you going?
Throughout an individual’s working life, there are shifts and changes. We journey through our first, second, and even third careers. Personal, professional, and leadership development accompanies and supports us on our way.
There are inflection points mid-career, professional or personal, which impact our progress and where we might need to make an active decision: should I change to another role, career or industry? There also comes a time at the top of our career when this development journey begins to slow down or even ends altogether. Yet, paradoxically, we face one of life’s biggest inflection points: What impact do I want to make in the rest of my life? What’s next? Where am I heading?
Inspired by experiences and ideas from decades of coaching leaders, the Quo Vadis Leadership Reflection Circles are designed to accelerate thinking and planning for the future during a career inflection point, whatever a person’s challenge may be: re-evaluation, reinvention or retirement.
“The unique personal history each of us has makes our search for meaning an idiosyncratic process. For each of us, it requires a journey into the self” – Manfred Kets de Vries
Who is this programme for?
The Leadership Reflection Circles are designed for executives and leaders at late or major career inflection points.
When forming groups, we pay attention to age and level of experience, geography, and industry to bring together diverse perspectives in an enriching peer learning group.
Register
Ongoing with rolling intake
Online, via Zoom
5 – 6 Participants per circle
£750 (excl. VAT)
KDVI t&cs apply
Throughout an individual’s working life, there are shifts and changes. We journey through our first, second, and even third careers. Personal, professional, and leadership development accompanies and supports us on our way.
There are inflection points mid-career, professional or personal, which impact our progress and where we might need to make an active decision: should I change to another role, career or industry? There also comes a time at the top of our career when this development journey begins to slow down or even ends altogether. Yet, paradoxically, we face one of life’s biggest inflection points: What impact do I want to make in the rest of my life? What’s next? Where am I heading?
Inspired by experiences and ideas from decades of coaching leaders, the Quo Vadis Leadership Reflection Circles are designed to accelerate thinking and planning for the future during a career inflection point, whatever a person’s challenge may be: re-evaluation, reinvention or retirement.
Who is this programme for?
The Leadership Reflection Circles are designed for executives and leaders at late or major career inflection points.
When forming groups, we pay attention to age and level of experience, geography, and industry to bring together diverse perspectives in an enriching peer learning group.
Themes
Some of the themes which emerged from previous discussions include:
Professor Kets de Vries’ pillars of meaning: belonging, purpose, competence, control, and transcendence
Common career life stages
Frameworks to contextualise personal, professional, psychosocial, constructive and motivational development
Frameworks to understand strategic and emotional transitions
The concept and personal attributes of ‘working identity’
The phases of mindset and behaviour change
What to expect
Quo Vadis Leadership Reflection Circles are organised as a series of four 2-hour calls in small groups of 5-6. The calls run at the same time and day every week.
Before the sessions start, you will be asked to reflect on and briefly write up a case description of a current challenge you are facing.
The virtual group coaching format provides leaders with a safe and confidential space to openly share thoughts and emotions they face professionally and personally in a small group of peers. Sessions will be run based on the coaching methodologies pioneered by Professor Manfred Kets de Vries. You will have the opportunity to discuss specific practical challenges, experiment with creative problem-solving, and receive feedback and support from your peers.
As part of the programme, you will receive an eBook copy of Quo Vadis? The Existential Challenge of Leaders by Manfred Kets de Vries.
Faculty
Wolfgang Gattermeyer
Hugh Coppen
Mik Van den Noort
Lalita Raman
How to register
Complete the online form to register your interest. Once we have a participant group, we will be in touch to arrange a suitable schedule.
Ongoing with rolling intake
Delivered online, via Zoom
5 – 6 Participants per circle
£750 (excl. VAT)
KDVI t&cs apply
