OUR TEAM OF HELPERS
We think of ourselves as helpers to individual leaders, teams, organisations and society because the real work of change and innovation is done by ‘self’ and internal leaders. As outsiders, we bring, for a short period of time, the presence and skills that kick-start that which can only be Nurtured by internal helpers – the leaders of the system.
Aggie Kalungu-Banda
Aggie is the Managing Partner of Beyond Business School Consulting and she also serves as an associate of the Presencing Institute. As an associate of the Presencing Institute Aggie, has had the opportunity to coordinate & co-faciltate learning programmes focused on bringing about profound change at personal and organisational levels. In the recent past she has designed and facilitated leadership and organistion development programmes for Nigeria’s agriculture sector, Civil Society Organisations in Ireland, the United Nations Environment Programme – Africa program, Zambia Institute of Human Resources and the National Health Service (NHS) UK. In 2014, Aggie organised and co-facilitated the UK’s first Theory U program which shared some of the latest social technologies in systems change and transformation.
Aggie’s other work experience includes working as Public Affairs Manager for YWCA England and Wales, Gender Adviser for Oxfam GB’s Humanitarian Department, Programme Development Manager for Oxfam in Yemen and Kosovo, Executive Director for Zambia National Women’s Lobby Group in Zambia, Programmes Manager for Women for Change, a local women’s organisation in Zambia, and was the inaugural Coordinator for YWCA Drop-In-Centre for the Young Women’s Christian Association which was the leading organisation in promoting Women’s Rights in Zambia.
Aggie holds qualifications in Organisation Development, Development Studies and Community Development.
Martin Kalungu-Banda
Martin is a consultant in Leadership & Organisation Development, a designer and facilitator of innovation and organisation change processes, a trainer, coach, writer, and an entrepreneur who has co-founded at least 8 businesses in the last 10 years.
In the last 5 years, he has been facilitating leadership development and innovation programmes for senior executives in Africa, Europe, India, China, and the Middle East.
Martin serves as Core-Faculty Member of the Presencing Institute and Future Considerations and visiting faculty for the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, London Business School and the Copenhagen Business School. Organisations he has consulted for include 3M, The Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiatives, HSBC, the World Bank, McKinsey & Company, the United Nations, and the Department for International Development of the British Government (DFID), among others. Martin has conducted leadership-training programmes for senior government officials and ministers in a number of countries.
Previously, Martin served as Special Consultant to the third President of Zambia with the brief to re-introduce the position of Chief of Staff in the Presidency; Corporate Affairs Manager for BP Africa; Head of the Private Sector Poiicy Unit with Oxfam GB in Oxford; and introduced and taught Business Ethics at the University of Zambia
Jolanta Luxmoore
Jolanta has been an academic, and has been involved in researching, teaching and lecturing in Britain and Poland. She also has experience in communicating though publications, presentations and conferences addresses. Jolanta was also the founder and first elected chairperson of Transparency International Poland.Currently, she is a specialist Lecturer at the Oxford Brookes University Business School, and also teaches Sociology, Organisational Behaviour and mindfulness at St.Clare's Oxford. Before joining Brookes, Jolanta worked at the University of London, where she taught and held a Post-Doctoral fellowship.
In 2007-2008 she worked as an adviser and a researcher for the West Oxfordshire Citizens Advice Bureau. Conducting research into the conditions facing migrant workers from Eastern Europe in the county.
I have published articles and books int eh field of sociology religious studies, corporate social responsibility and business ethics.
Presently, Jolanta is also doing an MSc in Mindfulness-Based Approaches (MBAs) at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (School of Psychology, Bangor University). Her research interests focus on mindfulness and ethical decision making in business.
She has been trained to deliver the MSc in Mindfulness-Based Approaches (MBAs) at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice in the School of Psychology at Bangor University and at Oxford University.
Among other assignments, Jolanta is running an eight-week Mindfulness courses for students and staff at Oxford Brookes University and St Clare's as well as for the general public.