chris atkinson Archives - Strategic Leadership

10 Aug

The Age Of Uncertainty – Agile and Leadership

In Chris Atkinson, Leadership

Nigel Baker is a one of the best known Agile trainers globally and a long time friend of our UK MD Chris Atkinson. In this interview Chris and Nigel discuss how their respective world of Leadership and Agile are starting to align. They discuss everything from leaders as coaches,...

23 Sep

Jack Ma’s Leadership Approach

In Chris Atkinson, Leadership

Jack Ma's Leadership Approach by Chris Atkinson - At his retirement party, Jack Ma stepped onstage to celebrate Alibaba’s 20th anniversary looking every inch the rock star complete with a leather jacket, shades, guitar, and jewellery. He sang and spoke to an emotional crowd in Hangzhou, China. It's fair to...

08 Jul

Why Don’t More UK Businesses Think in the Billions

In Business, Chris Atkinson, Culture

British businesses have a habit of building quick and selling fast, with many of the global powerhouses hailing from Germany and the USA. Why is this? And why don’t British firms often build for the long-term? Why do so few UK businesses expand to become global giants? Are there structural...

26 Jul

The World Cup Leadership Story You Might Have Missed

In Chris Atkinson, Leadership, Trust

While most media attention was on winners, losers, the players and their coaches, one brilliant example of leadership from the world cup slipped under the radar of many people. This was the story of Croatia's president, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic. What really caught my attention was that although the spotlight fell...

14 Feb

Quick Insight: The Role of Vision

In Chris Atkinson, Leadership, Video

Why bother with a vision? Sadly most company visions don’t inspire teams, leaders need to do better with vision to really engage their people. Learn why it is so important then transform your leadership by using vision techniques.

30 Sep

Transformational Leadership – Moving Beyond Money

In Chris Atkinson, Engagement, HR, Leadership, Strategic Leadership Authors, Video

September saw the 23rd annual World of Learning Conference and Exhibition in Birmingham, UK. Elysian’s own Chris Atkinson spoke here with passion, delivering a talk on his favourite topic, motivating people – beyond money. In case you didn’t have to opportunity to make it to World of Learning, we filmed...