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Human Development Project


Human Development Project 

How do we change the story of human progress, to care for all of life, from within the field of OD? 

Human progress defined by growth, competition, extraction and disconnection is destroying our ecological and social systems. What does this mean for the field of Leadership and OD? Shouldn’t we be taking the lead in redefining leadership to care for all of life?

Our Human Development Project sets out to connect people from across Leadership and Organisational Development to help change the narrative of leadership to care for our planet. To do this, we are hosting a series of ‘Inquiry Circles’, each a moment to share stories and tensions in redefining how we guide human progress. We are excited to be bringing together fantastic speakers to help us through 6 inquiry circles over 2021.

This work builds on a series of interviews we took in 2020, and we plan will build towards a deeper programme and collaborative inquiry later in 2021. If you’d like to find out more, or would like for us to keep you posted on the programme, please let us know via connect@bio-leadership.org.

Inquiry Circles

Circle 1. What does our work look like in ecological and social emergency? What drives our work now, and what responsibility do we take?

With guests:

Evelyn Doyle, HR Director, EMEA at Patagonia
Jon Alexander, Co-Founder, New Citizenship Project

27th January 2021

Circle 2. How do we  grow a new culture of regenerative leadership for the world? What is the DNA of the new story?

With guests:

Mac Macartney, writer, speaker and founder of Embercombe

17th February 2021

Circle 3. How does our work look if we genuinely work as an ecosystem for change? What does this mean for our relationships within organisations, the field, clients and more?

With guests:

Gonnie Been, Operations Director, World Benchmarking Alliance
Jennifer Menke, President, Regenerative Earth

March 17th 2021

Circle 4. How do we deepen our own personal development to support the deep change and replenishment that is needed in the world? 

With Guests:

Berend-Jan Hilberts, former Dean THINK school, coach and author of Unshackled Coaching
Renata Mendes, Founder of Actveda, speaker, self-knowledge specialist

April 7th 2021

Circle 5. How do we design new forms of work and intervention that meet the needs of our times? What principles and patterns would we work with? What does this look like in practice? 

With guests:

Michelle Holiday, guide, Creative strategist and author, The Age of Thrivability

May 19th 2021

6. How will we leave a better legacy as a field?

With Guests:

Jean Boulton, Managing Director of Claremont Management Consultants)
Marina Minari, co-founder of Circulah and collaborator with CoCriar

2nd June 2021

The Team

Andres Roberts

Andres is a guide dedicated to a new kind of progress, fit for a positive future for all. His work combines renewed ideas about learning and change, reconnection to Nature, and the wisdom of ancient cultures to help more positive, and more systemic, change happen. Building on twenty years of experience in learning and leadership, Andres has studied with respected elders from across the world, helping to make ancient wisdom and Nature-based practices more accessible in the modern world. Andres is co-founder of Way of Nature UK and founding partner of The Bio-Leadership Project.


Din Van Helden

Din has been learning, co-designing, facilitating and consulting for the last 20 years in the field of Organisational Development. Entrepreneur at Grounding.

Din aims to enable the conditions for life to thrive, evoking levels of connectedness – at the individual level, as well as in the quality of relationships between people, in order to create a positive impact on the systems we are participating in.

Joeri Kabalt
Joeri has ten years of experience in Organisational Development at Kessels & Smit, The Learning Company and specifically with Appreciative Inquiry as a change philosophy that centres participation and possibilities.

She is intrigued by how we can live our lives with a sense of wonder and passionate about enabling meaningful and deep connections and encounters with ourselves, each other and nature.

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Earlier Event: 14 October
Re-Emergence Gathering
Later Event: 20 March
Bio-Leadership Walks