Technological Unemployment

If AI Comes for Our Jobs, What Will We Do? Can human purpose flourish in a world without work? London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan has been in the news recently. He used his annual Mansion House speech to raise concerns about the risk of technological unemployment for London workers displaced by artificial intelligence. Computer Weekly … Read more

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What Happens When AI Becomes Your Teammate?

What Happens When AI Becomes Your Teammate? McKinsey has added around 25,000 AI agents to its workforce in under two years, according to a recent Business Insider article. Soon, nearly every human consultant will work alongside a digital colleague. As firms follow suit, what does this mean for the future of workplace culture and human … Read more

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Beyond the Boss

Do We Still Need Managers? Organising Work in the Age of Industry 4.0 As organisations move towards Industry 4.0, a serious question is emerging: do we still need traditional managers and supervisors? For over a century, management has been built around supervising people, allocating work, and enforcing control. Yet the world of work has changed … Read more

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Building a Swarm Organisation Personalised Programme

Building a Swarm Organisation Programme Overview Based on Richard Kelly’s The Nature of Business Transformation: A Swarm Intelligent Approach to Reinventing Organisations (2022). This eight-module programme supports leaders and change agents in transforming their organisation into a swarm-based business superorganism. Grounded in swarm intelligence, systems thinking, and organisational design, the programme combines theory with applied … Read more

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The System Leader Personalised Programme

Cultivating System Leadership
2026 Programme Coming Soon…

Across the programme, participants read one chapter each week and then engage directly with Richard in either one-to-one or group sessions. These are bespoke sessions that expand on the chapter’s ideas and help participants connect the concepts to their own organisational context.

Through a blend of dialogue, coaching, and structured interventions drawn from the book, Richard will:

  • Explore your specific organisational challenges
  • Support you through reflective coaching interventions
  • Guide practical, structured exercises aligned to each chapter
  • Help you interpret, personalise, and apply the material to your unique situation


The programmes are designed to deepen understanding, support real-world application, and enable meaningful change within complex organisational systems.

Programme Format

  • Eight self-paced modules
  • One-to-one or group delivery
  • Remote or face-to-face (UK)

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The Admirable Crichton and Adaptive/System Leadership

Leadership in the Movies: The Admirable Crichton and Adaptive/System Leadership This is part of a series of articles that combine two great passions of mine: leadership and movies. The series explores leadership through the lens of selected movies. Today we are looking at the 1957 British movie The Admirable Crichton (released in the United States as Paradise Lagoon) … Read more

January 2026 Organisational News

January 2026 Organisational News Companies that cited AI for layoffs slash tens of thousands of jobs in 2025. Storyboard18, January 1, 2026. Layoffs have dominated the job market in 2025, with major corporations across technology and professional services citing artificial intelligence as a key factor behind workforce reductions, according to consulting firm Challenger, Gray & … Read more

December 2025 Organisational News

December 2025 Organisational News McLean & Company Releases HR Trends Report for 2026: Highlights Growing Gap Between Organizational Change and Leadership Capacity. Canadian SME, December 9, 2025. McLean & Company released its HR Trends Report 2026. Based on new data from 1,626 human resources and leadership respondents, the firm reports that organisational change is outpacing … Read more