Grahame Broadbelt was Demos's Managing Director in 2006-7. Grahame has professional interests in the development of leaders and in the role of leadership in organisations and in society. Grahame is particularly interested in the impact of hierarchy and power on the capacity for organisations and society to distribute leadership effectively to where it is needed most.
Grahame worked previously with the leadership development organisation, Common Purpose. For 8 years as Operations Director, he led their educational work in the UK designed to improve the way society functions through building the capacity of private, public and community sector leaders to act more effectively together. Prior to that Grahame worked in community enterprise, in higher education and in the oil industry.
This provocation paper analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the emerging consensus – given expression by Lord Leitch in his review – around education and skills policy for the future. It argues that important elements of this consensus need to be challenged if the UK is to fulfil the laudable ambitions outlined in the Leitch Review and succeed in harnessing the talents of the whole population.
A project with the Guardian and the The Recruitment and Employment Confederation
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