60: Re-enchanting Humanitarianism: Gareth Owen OBE in Conversation with Dr Simon Western

The Eco-Leadership Institute has recently entered into a
partnership with the Humanitarian Leadership Academy with the
purpose to re-enchant the sector. This podcast was recorded in
the Save the Children London office as part of a workshop for
international humanitarian staff. The aim was for Gareth to
introduce Simon and his ideas on Eco-Leadership to those working
in the humanitarian sector. 

In this podcast, Simon shares his personal work journey, showing
how his experience shaped the project of Eco-Leadership. Gareth
and Simon then discuss the challenges in the humanitarian sector
and they explore how the new partnership aims to meet these
challenges with some new ideas that are already having an impact.
The Eco-Mutualist manifesto below summarises some of this
thinking. Enjoy the listen!

Eco-Mutualism: A Manifesto for a New Age of Humanitarianism

Bio
Dr. Simon Western is the founder and CEO of the
Eco-Leadership Institute, a leading academic and practitioner in
coaching and leadership. He is the author of "Leadership: A
Critical Text" (3rd ed., Sage 2019) and "Coaching and Mentoring:
A Critical Text" (Sage 2012) plus many book chapters and journal
articles.  He has also contributed to the development of a
new paradigm in leadership through his work on
Eco-Leadership.

Dr Western is a Past President of the International Society for
the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations, previously adjunct
Professor at University College Dublin, Director of Coaching at
Lancaster University Management School, and Director of Masters
in Consulting and Leadership at the Tavistock Clinic.

Gareth Owen OBE is the Humanitarian Director of Save the
Children UK. Over the last two decades, he has led responses to
numerous emergencies all over the world including the Boxing Day
Tsunami, Pakistan and Haiti earthquakes, Cyclone Nargis in
Myanmar, East Africa and Niger food crises and the Somalia,
Angola, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria conflicts. Today, he
leads a team of 190+ humanitarian professionals and in June 2013
he was awarded the OBE for ‘For services to Emergency Crisis
Response Abroad’.