Humanistic Leadership Webinar by our Dutch Chapter
2024-02-02 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Online
Do you believe human dignity should play a role in the daily leadership practice? Is the wellbeing of your team members of paramount importance to you? If so, this webinar was for you to learn more about humanistic leadership, our international network, and what you can do to support our mission.
In this one hour webinar, Matthijs and Danaë introduced humanistic leadership as a human dignity based way of leading. In modernity, most of us take the dominant economistic perspective on leading and organizing for granted; people are selfish and rational, and will always try to maximize their own personal benefits. The humanistic perspective does not accept this view of human nature and introduces homo florens instead: a thriving human being, aiming to flourish within the planetary boundaries while respecting the human dignity of all stakeholders, including past, present and future generations. Putting human dignity at the core of human nature requires new ways of leading and organizing. Humanistic leadership offers insights for leaders that aim for collective wellbeing while protecting and promoting human dignity. Join us to learn more!
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Bio Matthijs
Matthijs Bal is a professor of Responsible Management at the Lincoln International Business School, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom. Prior to joining Lincoln, he was affiliated to the University of Bath UK, VU University Amsterdam, and Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research interests concern workplace dignity, ideology, the future of work, and workplace democracy. Matthijs’ current activities and research focus on how workplaces can be radically transformed to ensure greater dignity and sustainability not just of people, but of everything that exists on our planet.

Bio Danaë
Danaë Huijser is an external PhD researcher at the University of Humanistic Studies. Her focus is on international humanistic management, specifically on the promotion of human dignity in intercultural teams. Her research aims to explore the potential of the Humanistic Management Model to support global leaders in promoting human dignity in culturally diverse teams. Danaë is an organizational psychologist and independent trainer at Caleidoscope Academy, supporting intercultural team leaders and members in dealing with individual and cultural differences.

Questioning Impact of Business Education
2024-02-09 11:00 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | University of Chichister, College Lane, Chichester, PO19 6PE, United Kingdom
We invite you to join us in a stimulating in-person co-inquiry, exploring the impact of business education and its implications at the Centre for Sustainable Business, University of Chichester in association with the Humanistic Management Network UK Chapter, and Humanists in Business on
Friday 9 February 2024.
Drawing upon Open Space principles we will:

Provide an opportunity to discuss and debate issues of common and emerging interest concerning impact in business education and to develop agendas for action
Introduce and celebrate the work in this regard of the Chichester Centre for Sustainable Business, the Humanistic Management Network UK Chapter, and Humanists in Business.

Open Space gatherings have been described as a kind of extended coffee break, during which fruitful conversations with a purpose are generated by their participants. Following a welcome and introduction we will have several small group discussions to identify challenges and opportunities in engendering impact in business education. In Round A, there will be a choice of topics (see the pro-visional list below) offered by chapter authors of the book ‘The Impact of a Regional Business School on its Communities – A Holistic Perspective’ (MacKenzie and Warwick, Eds, in press). Stimulated by the feedback session that follows, Round B will then consist of conversations generated by themes arising from the floor. After a final closing session, participants have the option to linger and mix further in the nearby Students Union, and leave buzzing with ideas for initiatives to pursue from their particular perspectives.
Initial choice of topics might include:

Cross-cultural issues of impact
The impact of and on local ecosystems and communities
The nature of regional economies
Implementing research within resource constraints
Fostering local writing and research cultures
Hosting Apprenticeship degrees
Management Education
Leadership development
Addressing equality, diversity and inclusivity
Collaborative Partnerships
What good do we do?
Working at the interface of business school cultures: the neo-liberal and the commons.

Participation is free; please reserve a place by 26th January on Eventbrite
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Questioning Impact of Business Education
