Recent Work

Over the past eighteen months Paul has been especially focused on teaching professional colleagues how the brain works. He has been running professional development NeuroGroups every three weeks over a five-month cycle; the next group starting on Sept 9 2009 and running Oct 14, Nov 11, Dec 9, Jan 20 (2010) and Feb 10: all held in the Marylebone area starting at 6.00 p.m. through to 8 p.m. He has taught the same topic at Henley Business School in 2008 and 2009; and as The Neuropsychology of Leadership at the Royal College of Defence Studies. These ideas have also been developed into the concept of The Limbic Leader, which he presented at Henley in May of 2008. Paul is one of the early UK members of the NeuroLeadership Institute, founded by David Rock and his colleagues in the USA, Australia and Italy; and is part of a group establishing neuroleadership in the UK - the first meeting having been held at Trinity College, Oxford in June 2009.

Organisationally, Paul is especially concerned by the fact that although the phrase ‘whole systems’ is frequently used there is no experimentally-developed understanding of what a ‘whole system’ might be. With colleagues in the States, who over fifteen years have been building on the work of Argyris, he has been involved in the development and use of a whole systems model called Spheres of Influence (Sofi®) that maps and tracks energy flow inside the whole organisation or any part of it; captures individual perceptions of what is happening; and transforms that into useable management information A web-enabled form of Sofi® became active in late 2008. This is one way of defining the molecules - the buildiong blocks - of any organisation or any part of it.

He continues with individual and organisational consultancy here in the UK and internationally, especially in America; with some interest in China and the development of its socio-political philosophy. As a result of responding to an FCO invitation to attend Wilton Park he recently wrote a piece for China Review (Issue 44) on 'Evolving China'.

His work in sustainable energy systems in association with Professor Tony Day at London South Bank University is being exemplified in a study that is under way at the Freer Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, in association with the architectural firm DEGW, where the implications of changing work space for enhanced organisational effectiveness are being mapped using the Sofi® system.

A consulting relationships of more than twenty years’ duration continues at Penshurst Place in Kent where he contributes to the long-term strategic development of the Estate's interests. This Autumn he will be teaching for Praesta in Barcelona; engaging on shared consultations with the academic side of the American military; and is discussing with an organic farming friend the possibility of developing her farm's long-term sustainability through introducing farming practices based upon a propr understanding of the nature of all the relationshiops within a whole complex system. He consults two days a week to indviduals both clinically and through coaching and in coaching supervision.

When time permits he fishes, visits Laos in SE Asia with the prospect of building a house there, and designs in his head the furniture he will one day find the time to make.