Andrew McNeill

What’s Kindness Got To Do With It?

Andrew compares some of the traditional archetypes of leadership with the evidence base of what is needed in today’s organizations.

Audience takeaway:

• Andrew refers to his elaborate studies about the value of kindness in the workplace and how it can help your organization succeed.
• Find out why kindness is not for the fainthearted and how it can make all the difference for your team’s success.

Finding Your Phoenix – Preventing and Recovering from Burnout

Eleven years ago Andrew realised he was burnt out. He had to step back from work to find techniques that enabled him to move from being overwhelmed, to being able to thrive in high pressure environments. In this talk, Andrew shares his experience of being introduced to mindfulness and other strategies, why he was very sceptical in the beginning  and how they have helped transform his life, his leadership and his career.

This talk will give you:

• Interesting neuroscientific findings and insights
• An introduction to mindfulness
• Tools to help you integrate these into your life

Practice Workplace Mindfulness

Andrew talks about the practical application of mindfulness for people in today’s workplace. He explains how this down to earth toolkit of techniques can help you manage stress, improve your communication skills and support  your decision making.

Andrew was never interested in mindfulness until he needed something that would help him cope with the effects of working in an extremely high pressure environment. He approached it with deep scepticism but found these well established evidence based methods worked in the modern workplace. It vastly improved his wellbeing and delivered a step change in his performance; which is why he studied to become a mindfulness teacher and now introduces teams and individuals to these life changing, team transforming skills: in practical, down to earth ways.

From this talk you will take away:

1) techniques to help you perform in high stress moments

2) ideas to help you communicate more effectively

3) ways to give you more choice in your decision making

Organizational Mindfulness

When Andrew was a Director in the UK Civil Service, he was frustrated by a lack of guidance for those trying to embed mindfulness at an organizational level.

Drawing on his own leadership experience and understanding of mindfulness practice he wrote his own guidebook; which has now sold in 4 continents.

Audience takeaway:

• How you can introduce mindfulness to processes and products as well as your people.
• How to practically apply mindfulness at an organisational level, embed it and enable it to be sustained.
• Discover how and why programme management is a mindfulness practice.