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Online Knowledge Café: Conversational Leadership — Beyond Knowledge Management
Wednesday 17th March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30 London time
Knowledge Management gives us access to information, but it does not decide or act. In this Knowledge Café, we will explore how Conversational Leadership builds on KM by strengthening shared reasoning, judgement, and agency. Join us to examine how we think together when knowledge alone is not enough.
Recent Blook Posts
The last twenty posts that have been published are listed below:
- Storytelling and Conversational Leadership Placing storytelling in the practice of thinking together
- Conversational Leadership in the Age of AI How we think, decide, and act together with intelligent systems
- Three Disclosure Rules for Conversations Sunshine, Chatham House, and Vegas
- Practicing Dialogic Thinking How small groups can open and hold shared thinking space
- Why Knowledge Management Systems Mislead Why the language pulls us toward technology
- Conversational Leadership — Beyond Knowledge Management Why Knowledge Management is not enough
- Knowledge Management Is a Practice ** Sensemaking, conversation, and everyday practice
- Why Incentives Undermine Knowledge Sharing A critique of traditional knowledge management thinking
- The Difference Between Dialogue and Dialogic Thinking A subtle but important difference
- Knowledge Management Is NOT About Delivering the Right Information to the Right People at the Right Time. Moving beyond classic KM thinking
- Dialogic Thinking Thinking with, through, and across difference
- Relationality Explained Things only make sense in relation
- The Trouble with Optimization in a Complex World What maximizing and minimizing get wrong in complex contexts
- A Decision Is Never Final in a Complex World Why decisions work better as hypotheses than conclusions
- The Relational Field How relationships shape what we say and hear
- Knowledge Cafés at the Knowledege Summit Dubai 2025
- Introduction: Conversational Leadership Conversational Leadership
- The Etymology of Faith From belief without proof to lived connection
- LLMS Tables: Intelligence and Conversation ###
- The Complex Nature of Political Identity Beyond left and right
Recent Pages
The last five pages that have been published are listed below:
- Developing Conversational Leadership A small collection of resources for reflection, learning, and practice
- Customized Knowledge Café Shaping each knowledge café to meet your specific needs
- Knowledge Café Roles and Timing Clear roles and structure support real conversation
- Knowledge Café Room Requirements Guidance for space, seating, and group size
- The Knowledge Café Concept A conversational process for learning and collaboration
Recent Updates
The last ten posts/pages that have been updated are listed below:
- Learn by Talking When speaking we organize cognitively what we know
- The House of Wisdom Innovation Story: An Islamic beacon of innovation and collaboration
- Why Knowledge Management Systems Mislead Why the language pulls us toward technology
- When Metaphors Get Knowledge Wrong Why common knowledge management terms mislead our thinking
- Conversational Leadership Future Events Future Talks, Knowledge Cafés and Workshops
- The Argumentative Theory of Human Reason We did not evolve to reason individually but to reason socially
- Conversational Leadership Past Events Past Talks, Knowledge Cafés and Workshops
- Conversational Leadership in the Age of AI How we think, decide, and act together with intelligent systems
- Conversational Leadership — Beyond Knowledge Management Why Knowledge Management is not enough
- Storytelling and Conversational Leadership Placing storytelling in the practice of thinking together
Recent People
The last five people that have been added are listed below:
- Rupert Wegerif Professor of Education at Cambridge University
- Carl Sagan American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator.
- Simon Sinek Author and inspirational speaker
- Arthur C. Brooks American social scientist
- Yuval Noah Harari Historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Recent Books
The last five books that have been added are listed below:
- 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
- On Relationality: Lessons From Martin Buber on Living in Relation with Self, Others, the World, and Life Itself by Alexander Carabi (2023)
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
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:
- In Conversation: Episode 18: What Is the Relationship Between Storytelling & Conversational Leadership? Thursday 6 November 2025
- What Is Complexity Informed Strategy? Jen Briselli
- Great Leadership Is a Network, Not a Hierarchy Gitte Frederiksen (2020)
- In Conversation: Episode 7: Hosting Knowledge Cafés Thursday 5 June 2025
- In Conversation: Episode 8 Thursday 12 June 2025
Recent Quotations
The last five quotations that have been added are listed below:
- Decisions Are Shaped Before They Are Made Dave Snowden
- A Wayshaper Does Not Direct Dave Snowden
- The Intent Is Pelagian. the Architecture Is Augustinian. Dave Snowden
- We Just Need Everyone Engaged Eileen Fisher
- Beyond Technology, It Is About People Ginni Rometty
Recent Blog Posts
The last five blog posts that have been added are listed below:
- The Trouble with DIKW A misleading KM framework that still persists
- Nothing Stands Alone A relational view of people information and systems
- The Rules of Confidential Conversations How Sunshine, Chatham House, and Vegas rules shape confidentiality
- Three Ways of Seeing Knowledge How knowledge shifts from substance to mind to action
- You Can Leave KM, but KM Does Not Leave You You can quit the label, not the practice
Recent Comments
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