Welcome to Defining Moments of Leadership, a podcast hosted by Marsha Acker. In your model of leadership, are you a leader of people or for people? My guest today, Claire Radley, has a very clear, distinct answer to that question and it’s part of her model for leadership. We’re continuing our miniseries on model building and my guest today is Claire Radley and we dive right into exploring Claire’s model for leadership and change. You’ll also hear her share how she works with model clash and conflict to transform them in order to create new possibilities and how she works with leadership teams and organizations to help them build their model for change.

Claire’s Bio

Claire is the Director for People and Organizational Development at a large NHS Trust in the UK. She previously worked in policing where she started life as a social researcher. This created an interest for her about organizational culture, and so whilst working full-time for a police force she undertook a quasi-ethnographic PhD part-time looking at how new police officers were socialized into the organization and its culture, and how this impacted upon their response to domestic abuse. Of particular interest were the parallels in the gender power dynamics in policing organizations and in incidents of domestic abuse. Since then she has worked in a number of roles focused on cultural and organizational development, always achieving success in improving both employee and service user experience. She has performed national roles in both policing and the NHS. She is passionate about bringing theory to life in a way that connects, excites and enables everyone to see the part they can play in achieving change.