Jenny Mackewn

Jenny Mackewn

I am an organisational consultant, creative catalyst, trainer and coach.

In a long business career, I’ve provided:

  • senior team development and coaching
  • executive coaching and mentoring
  • training and development programmes in dialogue, systemic coaching and facilitation/leadership
  • strategic and transformational systemic development
  • leadership and management development

Now I focus on training people as heart-centred leaders intent on shaping a better world. 

Specialities

  • Bespoke workshop and course design
  • Transforming organisational culture
  • Working with organisations as complex responsive processes
  • Integrating planned and emergent change
  • Actively interweaving formal and informal aspects of the organisational system

Techniques

  • Constellations
  • Systemic Mapping & Coaching
  • Theory U: theory, practice and application
  • Work That Reconnects
  • Action Inquiry & Action Research
  • Facilitation/Leadership as Action Inquiry
  • Gestalt and Complexity approach to organisational development
  • World Café
  • Open Space
  • Convening and facilitating dialogue
  • Visioning and Vision Questing
  • Shamanic approaches to business development

Courses designed

Writing

  • Facilitation as Action Research (book chapter)

Business clients

  • Syngenta
  • Roche Pharmaceuticals
  • Braganza
  • Birmingham City Council
  • Dept of Works & Pension (senior civil service)
  • Pushkin Trust
  • BG (previously British Gas)

Associate organisations

  • Schumacher College (2010–2024) Previously Head of College and ongoing designer of programmes and lectures
  • Metanoia Institute (2010–)
  • Nowhere Group
  • Harthill Group (1997–2005)
  • Roffey Park Management College (1997–2007)
  • Bath College of Further Education
  • Ecowild
  • Community Farm, Chew Magna, Bristol

Education

  • Theory U (foundation training)
  • Social Presencing Theatre – Advanced Training
  • Theory U (MOOC)
  • Organisational Development (MSc)
  • Training Adults (RSA Diploma)
  • Integrative Psychology and Group Facilitation (Diploma IDHP)
  • Supervision of Coaches, Consultants and Counsellors from Metanoia and from Renewal Associates (Diploma)
  • Training with Bert Hellinger, founder of Constellations and Systemic Mapping
  • French Language & Literature  (MA)

 

Supporting the emergence of a new generation of leaders in the service of the future