David is a rotational physiotherapist at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust and a member of the Professional Committee at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. He has a passion for healthcare after his previous career in the Royal Marines was cut short due to serious injury. A thread that has run through his life is self-development and making a difference.

He balances being an early career physiotherapist with being a member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Professional Committee; where he provides expertise and insight on significant physiotherapy practice, learning and development issues. He also chairs the Armed Forces Committee within University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation which represents the armed forces community within the trust. He is passionate about servicemen and women having fulfilling careers after their service and how the NHS and Military collaborate to drive innovation.

He graduated from the University of Nottingham with 1st Class Honours in physiotherapy where he researched student physiotherapists perceptions of using social media for learning. He is currently a Healthcare Leadership Academy Scholar and is working on a project around early-career leadership.

He has interests in leadership, rehabilitation, healthcare policy and systems.

Find David on Twitter @beardedPT

I talk with David about how we might help people imagine a better future for health and care and find ways of self-organising to fight for it. We explore leadership and student leadership, universal basic income and the Enterprise Allowance amongst much else.

John Walsh is the Organisational Development; and ‘Freedom to speak up’ Lead for Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust. John has spent the last 20 years working on the streets of Leeds trying to offer support to homeless people. He was Leeds Community Healthcare’s clinician of the year in 2013 and the Yorkshire and Humber NHS Leadership Academy Community Leader of the Year in the same year. 

John currently works with Manraj Khela and Steve Keyes to grow a city wide systems leadership community of over 600 people in Leeds.

We explore:

• The development of rational and intuitive wisdom and the role of teachers
• Gifts, potential, giving and receiving
• Seeing and giving our own gists and releasing the gifts in others as THE work of leadership
• The importance of vulnerability and getting it wrong
• Hafiz and Fromm
• New leadership for a new world
• Headwork, heartwork and handwork
• Slow philosophy and much more…

Over the last 20 years Cormac has worked in over 30 countries around the world. He has trained communities, agencies, NGOs and governments in ABCD and other strengths based approaches in Kenya, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, South Africa, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada and Australia.

He is passionate about the proliferation of community-driven change and citizen-centred democracy, and has supported hundreds of communities to make ABCD visible through what he calls ABCD Neighbourhood Learning Sites.

His motto, paraphrasing Benjamin Franklin, is: ‘When it comes to Community Building, well done is better than well said’.

In January 2011 Cormac was appointed to the Expert Reference Group on Community Organising and Communities First, by Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Civil Society in the UK which he served on for the term of the Group.

We talk about:

• Diligence – and holidays
• Compliance and tyranny in western institutions
• Associational and Institutional life
• When it comes to health might anthropologists be more useful than doctors?
• De-funding the police
• Triangles, circles, care and dominion

Chris is a coach who helps green changemakers get clear and focused. So they realise their true potential.

Some run their own business, others are freelancers, or employed. What they all have in common is an appetite for change. They’re ready to try something radical to put more soul in their livelihood, and finally bring that big unrealised dream to life.

In this conversation we explore a plate of smashed crabs – ideas that Chris wanted to explore as part of a conversation with me. But we spun off in all sorts of directions:

• Lessons from blue chip leaders
• Labels, boxes and people as pattern machines
• The difference between management and leadership and how we locate them in ourselves
• Spitfires, hypocrisy, the Tour de France and Welcome to Yorkshire
• The role of curmudgeons
• Echo chambers and tribalism
• Listening to our world
• And lots of reflections on human waste – Zizek and faeces

Anj is along standing friend and the Founder of Inspiring Women Changemakers (IWC), a global, inclusive movement of people who want to see the world become a safer, fairer place for women, wherever they live and whatever they do.

She is dedicated to promoting the rights of women at all levels of business and society.

She is also a lobbyist who has undertaken diplomatic assignments in employment and skills policy.

She is multilingual (German, Punjabi, French, Hindi), speaker, writer and NED with international experience at Board level.

With 20 years’ experience in the field, her professional experience is grounded in a deep understanding of Good Governance, Employment Law and digital systems. As Chair of Freedom Studios and Governor of Leeds Arts University, she specialises in arts sector leadership.

We talk about:

• Lockdown
• Disrupting poverty
• Leeds Migrant Access Project
• Skills and diversity in the boardroom,
• Roots, rootlessness, identity, anchoring and nourishment
• FGM campaigning and Masai Cricketers
• Sally Kohn and Emotional Correctness
• Privilege and Choice
• Head, heart AND Soul
• And being fully human…