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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:
- In Complex Situations Cause and Effect Can Only Be Understood in Retrospect Why prediction breaks down in complex situations
- Philosophy as a Practical Art Philosophy, responsibility, and meaning in everyday life
- Connection Is the Work Why relationships shape whether work happens at all
- The Gurteen KM Thinking Framework Knowledge Management
- Classical vs Relational KM From transactions and content to interaction and meaning
- The Trouble with Knowledge Flow Why a familiar metaphor can mislead us
- From Conversation to Conversing Why the verb matters more than the noun
- 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
- Knowledge Management Systems Don’t Manage Knowledge They manage information, not knowledge
- 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
Recent Pages
The last five pages that have been published are listed below:
- AI in the Room Making AI part of a shared Zoom conversation
- 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
Recent Updates
The last ten posts/pages that have been updated are listed below:
- The Fable of the Bees Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits
- From Conversation to Conversing Why the verb matters more than the noun
- Quotations on Conversation To inspire thinking about conversation
- Information Theory Information is surprise
- Knowledge Café: Going Off-topic It is OK to off-topic
- Knowledge Café: Running in a Lecture Theatre Why room layout matters
- Preface How the Knowledge Café got started
- Knowledge Café: No Flip Charts or Butcher Paper They get in the way of the conversation - avoid them
- AI in the Room Making AI part of a shared Zoom conversation
- Conversational Leadership Genai Coach A custom GPT
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:
- 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:
- 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
- What Is Complexity Informed Strategy? Jen Briselli
- Great Leadership Is a Network, Not a Hierarchy Gitte Frederiksen (2020)
Recent Quotations
The last five quotations that have been added are listed below:
- We Are Dialogic Creatures Rod J. Naquin
- Connection Is the Content Andi Roberts
- In Bad Times, KM Too Often Means Kill Me David Gurteen
- The Connection Paradox John Hagel
- Showing Respect Sits at the Very Heart of Conversational Leadership David Gurteen
Recent Blog Posts
The last five blog posts that have been added are listed below:
- Rethinking Modern Knowledge Management Looking again at knowledge, people, and technology
- Let the AI Critique Itself Why critiquing the critique can sharpen your ideas
- Talk Before Text Why writing follows dialogue not the other way round
- Dialogue Begins with Connection Daniel Schmachtenberger on the conditions for better conversation
- Information Is Not Enough Why sharing information does not always change what people do
Recent Comments
The last five comments that have been added are listed below:
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Conversational Leadership Coaching
Leadership as a practice of convening necessary conversations—ones that often go unsaid. Coaching that supports clarity, presence, and more thoughtful ways of working together.