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Andrew McNeill: Author and leadership consultant teaching organisations to adapt to a constantly changing world.
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Andrew McNeill had been highly recommended to me at Liberty HR Recruitment as a potential guest-speaker for our monthly HR Leaders’ Forums. After chatting to Andrew and hearing what he had to say, it became apparent that our HR Leaders network really needed to hear from him! He spoke on the subject of ‘Compassion in Leadership’ and he really didn’t disappoint. Andrew delivered his session with an easy style and it was full of engaging subject material. Kindness and compassion are always relevant, perhaps never more so than in our current situation whilst emerging from the Covid pandemic. Andrew ably demonstrated that there is nothing ‘soft’ about kindness.
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Prior to setting up Lines of Sight Consultancy in 2018, Andrew spent 20 years in senior leadership, most recently as a Director in the UK Civil Service. He is also an accredited mindfulness teacher and brought these two worlds together in his book Organisational Mindfulness – a How-to Guide in 2019, which has sold in 4 continents.
Andrew is the Workplace and Policy Lead and Projects Advisor for the Mindfulness Initiative, a charity which emerged from the work of the UK Parliament’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness and is Co-Director of BAMBA the UK’s mindfulness accreditation body.
Andrew believes leadership needs to change. With the multiple pressures our teams face, from climate change to emerging from the Pandemic, he sees that organisations will only thrive if their leaders can guide with inclusion, compassion and awareness. Andrew works with a range of organisations training teams and helping them connect, hear each other and develop their empathy. His techniques have helped individuals and teams navigate very real challenges and communicate with honesty and kindness. Andrew also offers executive mindfulness tutorial programmes.
See keynotes with Andrew McNeillAndrew believes in the need for leadership to be more human and uninhibited. In this talk, Andrew explains what ethical leadership is and why it is urgently needed at the moment when we are facing multiple pressures, from being in a recession to dealing with climate change.
Andrew will discuss how attitudes such as being non-judgmental and showing kindness are essential to modern day leadership.
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When Andrew was a Director in the UK Civil Service, he was frustrated by a lack of guidance for those trying to embed mindfulness at an organizational level.
Drawing on his own leadership experience and understanding of mindfulness practice he wrote his own guidebook; which has now sold in 4 continents.
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Andrew has faced numerous high intensity leadership situations, from heading up the UK Government’s assurance of the Olympic and Paralympic torches for London 2012 to being a Director on the Building Safety Program immediately after the Grenfell Fire tragedy.
Here Andrew talks about his own personal journey with pressure. What worked and what didn’t.
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Andrew compares some of the traditional archetypes of leadership with the evidence base of what is needed in today’s organizations.
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Eleven years ago Andrew realised he was burn out. He had to step back from work to find techniques that enabled him to move from being overwhelmed, to being able to thrive in high pressure environments. In this talk, Andrew shares his experience of being introduced to mindfulness and other strategies, why he was very skeptical in the beginning and how they have helped transform his life, his leadership and his career.
Audience Takeaways:
When employees feel comfortable asking for help, sharing suggestions informally or challenging the status quo without fear, organizations are more likely to innovate quickly, unlock the benefits of diversity and adapt well to change! In this engaging keynote, Andrew will use evidence based examples to give leaders reasons to want this transformative team mindset!
Audience takeaways:
Andrew talks about the practical application of mindfulness for people in today’s workplace. He explains how this down to earth toolkit of techniques can help you manage stress, improve your communication skills and support your decision making.
Andrew was never interested in mindfulness until he needed something that would help him cope with the effects of working in an extremely high pressure environment. He approached it with deep scepticism but found these well established evidence based methods worked in the modern workplace. It vastly improved his wellbeing and delivered a step change in his performance which is why he studied to become a mindfulness teacher. Andrew now introduces teams and individuals to these life changing, team transforming skills: in practical, down to earth ways.
From this talk you will take away:
"Just wanted to say thank you for inviting me to the forum today and for all the hard work that you and your team put into making the forum run so smoothly. Andrew was so engaging and the topic is very close to my heart so I thoroughly enjoyed the session."
"Andrew certainly provided us with a timely reminder that being alive to the suffering of others, should be part of workplace culture. This is especially important as we emerge from our ‘Covid Bunkers’ as Andrew calls them, and emerge blinking into the Sun of our new normal. I would heartily recommend Andrew as a speaker and hope, one day, that he will return to speak for our network once again!“
"Andrew McNeill gave a powerful and inspiring keynote address alongside a panel of business leaders at the launch of the MWC at HSBC's Canary Wharf headquarters in February 2020. This launched the creation of a paid member community. Andrew's keynote left the audience wanting to hear and learn more with many of them signing up to join the Community."
Theresa Dzendrowskyi
"I would change nothing about the webinars… Good time, duration, excellent speakers, Andrew is a fantastic facilitator. Always learning from these sessions! I do hope that, post lockdown, the webcast series will continue!"
"We’ve finally had our first keynote of our development program hosted by Andrew McNeill and I wanted to share with you the positive feedback that we received from our participants. It was a very lovely keynote, inspiring and easy going. Some of them really appreciated the opportunity to have mindfulness practices as a part of the keynote and were able to relax and calm themselves. Andrew was very flexible with all the logistic and briefing preparation, and so nice and kind with our participants. Overall, it was a success!”
Sofia Innocenti - Employee Experience Expert
“Overall, I thought Andrew’s presentation was unusual for our team because he was asking us to slow down! But his message of being mindful and recognizing that the concept of ambiguity is and has always been with all of us in our lives was a key point that maybe we all don't realize, but should. I think the team welcomed the invitation to slow down and be in the moment. In the times we're in, the topic was "spot on" to quote one of the team members.”
Andrea
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