The Topic

Join Simon Western for as he sets the tone for our 2025 webinar series - Soul at Work. Drawing on Eco-Leadership principles, psychoanalysis, and deep systemic insights, Simon invites us to rethink how we engage with work - not just as a means to an end, but as a space for meaning, connection, and change. Whether you're a leader, coach, or changemaker, this webinar will help us reflect on how we work and lead in an era of uncertainty. Come prepared to listen, reflect, and engage in a radical reimagining of leadership and work.

The Agenda

In the first half of the webinar, Simon will make his presentation and facilitate initial responses.

In the second half, we'll move into a reflection-application session:

- 'Composting': experienced peers work the material in small groups to sprout new ideas;

- 'Weaving': attendees gather to collectively reflect and question, weaving our experiences together;

- Discuss how we will apply learnings to our personal practice in Reflection Application Pairs (RAPs).

The Speaker

Simon is the Founder and CEO of the Eco-Leadership Institute. He is a leading academic and practitioner in coaching and leadership. A past president of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO) and director of coaching and organizational Masters courses at leading universities, Simon is the author of Leadership: A Critical Text (3rd ed., Sage 2019), Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text (Sage 2012), and co-author of Global Leadership Perspectives: Insights and Analysis (Sage 2018).

Simon leads the popular Edgy Ideas podcast, in which he explores how social change, technology, and environmental issues impact how we live and who we are - personally and collectively - in our disruptive age. Through his current enterprises, Simon trains and leads a network of advanced coaches internationally with the aim of building an ecosystem of coaches who support the leadership required in today’s networked and global society. All of Simon’s work emerges from a critical and ethical perspective, a belief that our task is to work in ‘good faith’ to build the ‘good society’.

If you purchase a ticket but can't make it in real-time, a recording will be shared with you after the webinar.