Simon Western
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Simon Western is a British academic and author who founded the Eco-Leadership Institute and is CEO and founder of Analytic-Network Coaching Ltd.. He has written on the topics of leadership, coaching, and organizational change.[1][2][3]
Western developed an ethical and networked approach to leadership, known as Eco-Leadership.[4] According to Wallach, he identifies the four discourses that have dominated leadership thinking in the last century and presents these in his book, which is now the 3rd edition of Leadership: a critical text.[5][6]
Early life and education[edit]
Simon Western was born in Bristol, England. Leaving school, Western first worked in a factory, before moving into general nursing then psychiatric nursing, and later trained as a family therapist.[citation needed] Western has two Masters degrees; Psychotherapy and Counselling from Keele University, and Consulting to Organisations: Psychoanalytic Approaches from the Tavistock Clinic, London. Western completed his PhD in Leadership at the Lancaster University Management School.[7][8]
Career[edit]
Western was Director of Coaching at the Lancaster School of Management from 2005 to 2007. He was then Director of the Tavistock Clinic’s Masters in Organisational Consultancy from 2008 - 2010. He was president of the International Society for the Psychoanalytical Study of Organizations (ISPSO) from 2017 to 2020.[9] He was an adjunct professor, University College Dublin, Honorary Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University Management School and Senior Fellow at Birmingham University, Health Service Management Centre.[9]\
Western is best known for the Eco-Leadership approach and the Analytic-Network Coaching System. His Analytic-Network Coaching system is designed to coach leaders to 'act in good faith to create the good society'.[citation needed] It draws on psychoanalysis, critical theory, social movement theory, environmentalism and network theory to train coaches in order for them to support the development of ethically driven leaders.[10][11]
Publications[edit]
Books[edit]
- Leadership: A Critical Text (3rd Ed.), Sage London, 2019, Western, S.
- Global Leadership Perspectives: Insights and Analysis, 2018, Sage London, Western, S. & Garcia, E.J.
- Coaching & Mentoring: A Critical Text, 2012, Sage London, ISBN 1848601646 Search this book on
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Book Chapters[edit]
- Covid: an intrusion of the Real. In Brunning, H & Khaleelee, O (Eds.) The Covid Trail-Psychoanalytic Explorations, 2023, Phoenix Publishing House
- From Paternalism to Mutualism. Eco-Leadership: the cultural transformation of healthcare. In Chambers, N. (Ed) Research Handbook on Leadership in Healthcare, Chapter 41, 2023, Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar
- The Eco-Leadership Paradox, in Redekop, B., Gallagher, D.R., & Satterwhite, R. (Eds.), Innovation in Environmental Leadership: Critical perspectives., 2018, Publishing: New York and London: Routledge
- Eco-Leadership: Towards the Development of a New Paradigm, in Redekop, B. et al (Eds), Leadership for Environmental Sustainability, 2010, New York & Milton Park: Routledge
- Democratising Strategy, in Campbell, D. & Huffington, D. (Ed) Organizations Connected: A handbook of Systemic Consultation. pp. 173-196, 2008, London: Karnac
Journals[edit]
- NIPI not BART: Designing a group relations conference for our precarious-interdependent world, 2022, pp. 61–81, Socio-analysis, Western, S., & McDonnell, B.
- The Meaning of Greta: A psycho-social exploration of Greta Thunberg, 2021, Organisational and Social Dynamics, Western S.
- Covid-19: an intrusion of the real the unconscious unleashes its truth, 34(4), pp. 445–451, DOI:10.1080/02650533.2020.1842725, 2020, Journal of Social Work Practice
References[edit]
- ↑ "Analytic-Network Coaching: Coaching for Distributed 'Eco' Leadership and Organizational Change - Integral Leadership Review". Integralleadershipreview.com.
- ↑ "The cultural influences that shape how we lead (and follow)". Vogelwakefield.com. December 2017.
- ↑ "Developing Eco Mindset- TBCY". TBCY. 24 November 2022.
- ↑ "Eco-supervision group in London". Vogel Wakefield. 3 December 2019.
- ↑ "The cultural influences that shape how we lead (and follow)". Vogel Wakefield. 1 December 2017.
- ↑ "Free Resources | Tracy Wallach And Associates | Boston". Dr. Tracy Wallach.
- ↑ "Simon Western | Lancaster University Management School - Academia.edu". lums-uk.academia.edu.
- ↑ "Lancaster inspired Jenny into a lifetime of inspirational coaching". www.lancaster.ac.uk.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Leadership in the Pandemic and Beyond Seminar with Dr Simon Western". NIODA. 11 March 2021.
- ↑ "Analytic-Network Coaching". NIODA. 30 October 2018.
- ↑ "Analytic-Network Coaching©: Coaching for Distributed 'Eco' Leadership and Organizational Change - Integral Leadership Review". Integralleadershipreview.com.
- ↑ "Simon Western Books | Page 1 | World of Books". www.wob.com.
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