In 2009 T1UK was in the eye of a storm afflicting the global economy. T1UK has been a citizen of the UK oil industry for many years and a part of the community in its many locations around the UK. The perfect storm amounted to losses in its operating units, an experience being repeated across [...]
A case study from the Engage for Change archives Engage for Change facilitated the top 35 executives from one of the world’s top gold mining companies over four intense days in the West African country of Mali. Engage for Change founder John Smythe gave a first hand account of his experiences: "On arrival in Mali we [...]
Thomas Cook leads the travel industry when it comes to customer service, but as part of the introduction of a new strategy to all 17,000 staff in the UK and Ireland, it intended to differentiate itself even more through outstanding customer service and service innovation to drive operational cost savings and efficiencies. Engage for Change designed [...]
You may be familiar with Zurich’s advertising line: ‘Because change happenz’. It’s much more than an external brand image. The company has itself gone through a major transformation under the leadership of Jim Schiro. Change is definitely happening within Zurich. Having engineered the financial turn around of the corporation over the last four years, the leadership [...]
Rockwell Collins Inc. is a pioneer in the development and deployment of innovative avionics, communications and electronics solutions for commercial and government applications, headquartered in Cedar Rapids Iowa USA. The company’s expertise in avionics, electronics, communications, information management and simulation and training is delivered by more than 20,000 employees, and a global service and support [...]
Engage for Change facilitated a high speed, dynamic engagement of 140 leaders at a major housing association to contribute the basis for a ten-year vision. Using our team size escalation process people worked alone at first to respond to two simple ‘exam questions’ - essentially what could great look like to key stakeholders in ten [...]
For the second year running Stewarts Law, the international litigation practice, invited John Smythe to design and facilitate their business strategy meeting attended by the top 50 or so lawyers. The meeting had to meet two objectives; provide robust solutions to deliver the near term business strategy and think out to 2025 to frame the [...]
This month’s Engage for Change networking and learning breakfast at the Groucho Club was nine months in the making; it took that long to track down a suitable speaker for one of our most controversial topics – the dark side of engagement. And it was well worth the wait. Charlie Winter, Senior Research Fellow at [...]
Terrorist engagement has taken another sinister turn, as the new President of the United States handed ISIS and fellow extremist groups a trump card in the form of his refugee visa suspension. The executive order, dubbed the ‘Muslim ban’ by media, suspended immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations in a move that Donald Trump claimed “…is [...]
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