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Conversational Leadership Coaching
Learn to lead by hosting the conversations that rarely happen but deeply matter. Coaching helps you turn dialogue into a daily leadership practice.
Recent Blook Posts
The last twenty posts that have been published are listed below:
- Introduction: Consciousness Understanding consciousness and why it matters for conversation and AI
- Who Are We Talking to When We Talk to an AI? The conversational illusion of a single entity
- Consciousness, Conversation and Conversational Leadership How our experiences shape conversation, relationships and thinking together
- Is AI Conscious? Why the answer depends on what we mean by consciousness
- Global Consciousness Thinking beyond ourselves in an interconnected world
- What Is It Like to Be Something? Understanding consciousness, subjective experience, and what it feels like to be conscious
- Conversational Leadership Across the Power Spectrum Power changes the reach of our influence, not our capacity to lead
- AI Sycophancy in Conversation ** What happens when our AI thinking partner becomes too agreeable
- The Value and Risks of Anthropomorphising AI in Conversation How human should our conversations with AI become?
- Working with the Conversational Freedom We Have Practising Conversational Leadership when our freedom to act is constrained
- The Stuff in Between ** Why relationships and interactions matter more than we think
- Interthinking Is Real How conversation becomes part of the thinking process
- Safe-to-fail Conversations Using conversation as a probe when the way forward is uncertain
- Meeting the Enemy How Deeyah Khan uses conversation to understand people drawn to extremism
- Interthinking: Thinking Together Why our best thinking often happens in conversation
- Information Is Not a Thing Information emerges through perception and interpretation
- Information in Physics How physics gives information a very different meaning
- The Power of Random Conversations Creating the conditions for knowledge to spread through conversation
- Human Conversations and AI Conversations ** Some differences will fade, others may remain
- Talking Too Much Good conversations are everyone's responsibility
Recent Pages
The last five pages that have been published are listed below:
- Orientation to Conversational Leadership An orientation to the ideas, principles, and practice
- Why Conversational Leadership Matters Why conversation, shared responsibility, and thinking together matter in a complex world
- Quote of the Day Subscribe to receive a random quotation each day
- Member Login
- My Courses
Recent Updates
The last ten posts/pages that have been updated are listed below:
- The Differences Between the Knowledge Café and the World Café There are some significant differences
- There Are No Solutions to Complex Problems Only an endless series of adaptive responses
- Wisdom of Crowds of Crowds Crowds within a crowd outperform 'wisdom of the crowd'
- Who Are We Talking to When We Talk to an AI? The conversational illusion of a single entity
- A Brief History of Knowledge 200,000 years of human history
- Trust & Belief Formation Trust plays a critical role in forming our beliefs
- Ideation Café: Beyond Brainstorming Generating and developing ideas through conversation
- How Beliefs Shape Reasoning How political views influence the way we interpret data
- The Argumentative Theory of Human Reason We did not evolve to reason individually but to reason socially
- What Are Beliefs? Ideas that are held to be true but not necessarily supported by any evidence
Recent People
The last five people that have been added are listed below:
- David Whyte Poet and thinker exploring the human side of work and conversation
- Mikhail Bakhtin Russian philosopher of language, dialogue, and the social nature of meaning
- Martin Buber Jewish philosopher of dialogue and human relationships
- Rupert Wegerif Professor of Education at Cambridge University
- Carl Sagan American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator.
Recent Books
The last five books that have been added are listed below:
- The Constitution of Knowledge By Jonathan Rauch (2021)
- Let’s Talk: How to Have Better Conversations By Nihal Arthanayake
- Words and Minds: How We Use Language to Think Together by Neil Mercer (2000)
- Interthinking: Putting Talk to Work by Karen Littleton, Neil Mercer (2013)
- Oracy: the Transformative Power of Finding Your Voice by Neil Mercer
Recent Papers
The last five papers that have been added are listed below:
- Ten Years in Knowledge Management David Gurteen
- Teaching Innovation, Conversations, Community of Practice: Using Knowledge Cafe’s to Share Teaching Best Practice … D.J. Cranfield, D. Gurteen (2020)
- Knowledge Café’s, Informal Conversations, Sharing Teaching Best Practice Desireé Cranfield, David Gurteen (2020)
- Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Cafés – a Case Study in Higher Education Desireé J Cranfield, Isabella M Venter, Sue Evans, Ellen Spender
- Knowledge Café: New Approach in Teaching and Learning at Higher Learning Institutions Noryana Ahmad Khusaini, Mohd Shamsul Daud, Seri Intan Idayu Shahrul Asari, Nordibradini Selamat
Recent Videos
The last five videos that have been added are listed below:
- Touchy Feely Crap Peter Block
- A Time to Think Nancy Kline
- What Is Conversational Leadership? – Conversations with KMI Series David Gurteen and John Hovell
- Dialogic OD Edgar Schein
- In Conversation: Episode 18: What Is the Relationship Between Storytelling & Conversational Leadership? Thursday 6 November 2025
Recent Quotations
The last five quotations that have been added are listed below:
- The Illusion of Solutions Nora Bateson
- Not All of Us Can Do Great Things. but We Can Do Small Things with Great Love Mother Theresa
- Epistemic Loneliness Derived from contemporary psychological discussions on Epistemic Loneliness
- When Conversation Becomes Too Small Unknown
- The Secret of Success Henry Ford
Recent Blog Posts
The last five blog posts that have been added are listed below:
- Upcoming Events Talks, Knowledge Cafés and Workshops
- Reading Worth Your Time Curated links, November 2026
- Empathy: A Skill or a Disposition? Why empathy is more about who we are becoming than what we learn to do
- Who Are We Talking to When We Talk to an AI? The illusion of someone on the other side of the conversation
- Why I’ve Been Exploring Consciousness Why understanding consciousness matters when we talk to AI
Recent Comments
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