Author - Leadership Development in Practice: A Complexity Approach, the second edition of which was published in the autumn of 2023, and Organisational Development in Practice: A Complexity Approach, the first edition of which was published in the summer of 2025 - Senior Lecturer in Executive Education at Liverpool John Moores University, Associate Member and Member of the Board of Trustees at the Institute of Group Analysis and Director of Kevin Flinn Associates Limited. Experienced in leadership/management and organisational development, group process and facilitation/teaching/lecturing.
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Hope in Dark Times: The politics and practice of lived experience
November 16, 2026
9:00 am
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ComplexitySalon comes to Oxford. A day for lived experience practitioners with Professor Les Back and Professor Chris Mowles at Rhodes House.
Most organisations value quantities over qualities, claiming to be more 'evidence-based'. In institutions grounded in natural science, the appeal to evidence can silence the particular, the personal, and the experiential. This is why lived experience testimony and narrative can present powerful challenges to orthodox ways of managing and making policy. But bringing lived experience into an organisational setting is beset with difficulties. It is also a political act, and is likely to be resisted. So what are the strengths and limitations of lived experience? What possibilities are there for developing the approach as method? How might we learn from one another?
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How lived experience reveals what we owe one another
May 26, 2026
6:00 pm
ComplexitySalon is delighted to host Professor Laura Abbott from the UK and Tahlia Isaac from Australia, who will share their research and experiences relating to women and children navigating the justice systems. Together, they will explore how power operates at the margins of society, and what these experiences reveal about our humanity, our institutions, and the values we choose to uphold.
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ComplexitySalon Online: with Professor Carl Rhodes
November 18, 2025
7:00 pm
In a turbulent world, those with greater ability to influence often chose to push the burden of uncertainty onto those who are already more marginalised. The greater and more visible this inequality in society the more likely it is that groups who feel underrepresented become anxious and more susceptible to simplistic solutions.
