Preparing for Senior Strategic Leadership
I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of participating in Preparing for Senior Strategic Leadership. It was a powerful learning experience and the range of activities was fantastic. The networking that developed was extremely encouraging and has already extended beyond the residential. I found the programme extremely well facilitated, always in a stimulating, collegiate and supportive manner. Excellent experience all round – many thanks.
Dr Neil McPherson
Assistant Dean (Education)
University of the West of Scotland
Preparing for Senior Strategic Leadership (PSSL) provides a unique opportunity for new and aspiring senior university leaders to explore and develop their leadership identity. Framed by the Connected Leadership model, PSSL is structured around four key leadership intelligences that address the question of how to connect people with purpose, a key stratagem to creating successful strategic leadership. In a complex, sometimes ambiguous institutional environment, it is the quality of these connections that help leaders to engage others and release the energy for create sustainable change.
Over 500 professional and academic colleagues have taken part in PSSL from UK and European institutions. PSSL is one of the core leadership programmes run by the Leadership Foundation preparing leaders for the challenges of the evolving higher education landscape.
PSSL Programme Directors
Doug Parkin
Programme Director
Doug is responsible for a range of Leadership Foundation open programmes as well as undertaking bespoke consultancy assignments for universities. Key interests include educational and research leadership, the leadership of professional services, strategy development and leadership for sustainability. An accomplished teacher, facilitator, coach and conference speaker, Doug has achievements across a wide range of leadership, educational and organisational development projects. People who work with Doug comment on his enthusiasm, great preparation, powerful insights, breakthrough moments and sheer inspiration. They go away with new energy, ideas and perspectives on themselves and others.
Rebecca Nestor
PSSL Co-Programme Director and Key Associate
E: rebecca.nestor@learning-for-good.co.uk
Rebecca Nestor is an associate of Advance HE. She is on the delivery team for Aurora, co-directs Preparing for Senior Strategic Leadership, and contributes to Advance HE's bespoke and in-house leadership development work both in the UK and internationally. She has professional interests in equality and diversity, including unconscious bias; academic leadership; the human side of organisational change; and environmental sustainability. Rebecca has worked in higher education since 1992, and was both head of equality and head of staff development at the University of Oxford.
Welcome...
We are a membership organisation of and for a sector that has some of the brightest minds in the UK.
Our members are key to our strategy and form a community of higher education institutions with a clear commitment to and experience of developing leadership, governance and management capabilities at all levels. Academic and professional services staff from member institutions contribute to our programmes, projects and research and advise on benefits and services.
Find out more about Membership
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Membership benefits- 25% discount on our open and in-house programmes and consultancy
- a free consultancy day
- exclusive access to research publications, development resources and funding opportunities
- free regional events
- funding for Staff Development Forum and MASHEIN activity
- members’ mailing lists, newsletters and magazine
- participation in our development networks
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How to join- Membership is open to all higher education providers and related sector organisations on an annual or three-yearly subscription basis.
- We have 154 members with around a third taking advantage of the 10% discount offered by three-year subscriptions.
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Membership benefits- Research and innovation: Access to our latest, highly-valued research, Leadership Insights, Getting to Grips series and practical development project resources.
- Management Development Resources: Flexible workshop materials on key leadership and management development topics, for you to deliver in-house to suit your own contexts NEW: ‘Caught in the Middle’.
- The Knowledge Bank: Save time with these extensive multi-media training resources for HR, staff development and OD professionals, covering key leadership and management theory and practice.
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Get in touchMeet the membership team, your national and regional contacts in the UK and Ireland, and LF networks.
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