Jane Corbett

Jane Corbett is a facilitator, consultant and coach on generative leadership for a sustainable future. She has worked as a tutor and course director on leadership, climate change and sustainability programmes in the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford part time since 1997. This has included designing international programmes for senior level delegations from China and USA and open leadership programmes for people from government, business and civil society.

Jane runs a consultancy practice called the Generative Leadership Programme, training, coaching and collaborating with people and organizations to achieve their full potential to lead and learn at times of change and transition. A key focus is working collaboratively on global sustainability challenges and the transition to a sustainable future from an organizational, place based or international perspective.

Jane’s training workshops develop transformational self awareness and generative leadership practices through reflection on the connection with self, others and nature. She works with authentic, resonant and generative leadership practices, systems thinking, scenarios and other future mindedness techniques, creativity and innovation, eco-literacy, making sense of the science of climate and ecosystem change and new economic approaches. Jane has a passion for holistic ways of seeing the systems we are part of and working with our collective intelligence and creativity to support leadership and innovation.

Jane has designed learning and leadership programmes on climate change at the Open University UK. At the Earthwatch Institute she developed global climate learning programmes for HSBC staff championing change within the HSBC Climate Partnership. Before that she had twenty years experience working on food security, sustainable livelihoods, landscape and biodiversity conservation action research projects in Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe.

Jane is part of the Authentic Leadership in Action Institute (ALIA) core team developing leadership programmes and networks in Europe. She is also a member of the Global Presencing Community and the Society for Organizational Learning. She has an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and an MA in Contemporary Arts from Oxford Brookes University and has trained in mindfulness training and coaching.

Martin Kalungu-Banda

Martin Kalungu-Banda serves as Core Faculty Member of the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, the Presencing Institute, the Commonwealth Business School, and the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Executive Programme. He trains and coaches business, government, and civil society leaders in different parts of the world. Since February 2010, Martin has been designing and facilitating the WWF-led process through which the tuna industry is seeking to make itself more sustainable. Through the Governance Initiative of Tony Blair (former UK Prime Minister), Martin coaches a number of Presidential Chiefs of Staff on the African continent.

Martin served as Global Leadership Advisor for Oxfam GB in Oxford, UK. Between March 2005 and May 2008, he served as Special Adviser and Coach to the President of Zambia, helping to establish the role of Chief of Staff in the presidency. Martin also worked as Corporate Affairs Manager and Regional Social Performance Manager for BP-Africa. Prior, he designed, introduced and taught Business Ethics and Philosophy of Good Governance at the University of Zambia.

Martin is the author of the bestseller Leading Like Madiba: Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela (2006) that has sold more than 30,000 copies and been translated into six languages and It’s How we end that Matters: leadership lessons from an African President (2009).

Martin holds a Master’s Degree in Public Affairs from the University of Warwick, UK; a double major bachelor’s degree in Development Studies and Philosophy from the University of Zambia and a diploma in Philosophy and Anthropology from the Zambia National Seminary. He also holds professional qualifications in Leadership and Organisation Development from the National Training Laboratories (NTL) and Brokering Cross-sector Partnerships from the United Nations Staff College (Turin).

Jim Marsden

Jim Marsden is currently leading a variety of organizational development initiatives within Hewlett Packard. With more than 16 years of experience at HP, he has worked across the company in positions including organizational development, business team management, strategic planning and marketing management.

Jim has helped HP to create and develop businesses and manage organizational transitions. His work and interests have led to extensive national and international engagements. Past experience includes marketing management in a startup division in Italy, internet services management in an HP business initiative designed to collaborate with emerging businesses in developing countries; and, business and portfolio management and organizational change within several HP business areas.

Jim’s academic credentials include an MA in Organizational Management from the Fielding Graduate University, a BS in Mechanical Engineering, from the University of Michigan, a BA in Physics from Kalamazoo College and advanced studies in business management from the London Business School. Jim has also completed extensive coursework and training in dialogue and innovation.

Jim has a passion for the wilderness and guides quests for the Animas Valley Institute and co-leads other outings that help inform and deepen our relationship with wilderness and benefit organizations such as Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and Western Resource Advocates. He currently resides in Boulder, Colorado.