Our think tank is pioneering new ethical leadership approaches fit for the digital age and a planet that demands system change
We work across sectors and around the globe to create change. Our podcasts, essays, publications and reports span topics including:
Leadership
Organisational Dynamics
Coaching and Consulting
Social and Political Change
Edgy Ideas Podcast
The edgy ideas podcast explores what it means to live a ‘good life’ and build the ‘good society’ in our disruptive age. Host Dr. Simon Western welcomes top thinkers to explore how societal change, technology and environmental issues impact how we live and who we are - both personally and collectively. With a fresh perspective and psycho-social insights, Edgy Ideas aims to re-insert the human spirit, good faith, ethics and beauty back into the picture. You can check out all of our episodes here, or see our most recent episodes below.
Essay Collection - Re-Enchanting Our Worlds
With a breadth of knowledge, experience, and a curious mind, Dr. Simon Western explores relevant topics in his twice-monthly essays on his Substack, ‘Re-Enchanting Our Worlds”. Subscribers not only support Simon’s writing and the work of the Eco-Leadership Institute, they also have access to his psychoanalytic perspectives on society, politics, leadership and more.
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With over 85 publications, the Eco-Leadership Institute’s founder, Dr. Simon Western, is a forward thinking expert in leadership and coaching. His books, papers, reports and essays span topics including leadership, coaching and psychoanalysis, and draw from his extensive and varied life and professional experiences.
Publications
Books
Leadership: A Critical Text
In this original text, Simon Western deconstructs and reconstructs leadership to challenge the popular notion of the individual or hero leader, instead using his own framework to present leadership as a distributed process.
Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text
Positioning coaching as working between the ′wounded-self′ (of therapeutic culture) and ′celebrated-self′ (of the human potential movement), this text reveals four discourses that underpin contemporary coaching practice.
Global Leadership Perspectives: Insights and Analysis
A critical, global counterpoint to more western-centric texts that will appeal to critical leadership scholars, those teaching leadership from a critical perspective and those teaching leadership with an international focus.
Eco-Mutualism: Re-imagining Humanitarianism Ebook
This eBook was written in partnership with the Humanitarian Leadership Academy with the goal of re-imagining humanitarianism through Eco-Mutualism. The aim is to contribute to a re-enchantment of a disenchanted humanitarian sector in order to re-energise and re-organise our collective understanding of and response to humanitarian crises.
Dr. Simon Western is the author of over 50 academic papers covering the topics of leadership, coaching, organisations and psycho-social topics. His works are published on Academia.
