Spiritual Enterprise #3 Questions Business Schools Don’t Ask

Jul 3, 2015

The last couple of months have been somewhat dominated by the discovery and successful treatment of Jane’s benign brain tumour.  But in between hospital visits a movement has been quietly rolling on.  In June 2014, Chris Mabey, Professor of HR Management at Middlesex University brought together a number of us at Sarum College in Salisbury, where we presented some papers on “Questions Business Schools Don’t Ask.  Last month I received my complimentary copy of the book which our papers have now become.  Meanwhile a two year university tour is already nearly halfway through.  Having begun in London, and travelled to Bristol and Exeter, the next will be co-hosted by Dr Mervyn Conroy and myself at Birmingham University on Virtue Ethics and Christian Values in Health and Education.  In the opening session, Peter the Vice-Chancellor of Newman University and Sarah the Head of Diocesan Education for Birmingham will be helping me explore the question “Is it possible to exercise spiritual and ethical leadership in an environment overloaded with statutory and economic measures of success?”  Later in the day Wolfgang Mayhrofer will be outlining why embracing Christian values is crucial for educating future leaders.  As part of a new venture together, we have just agreed to put Agape’s Relationships Course into Sarah’s induction programme for a dozen of her new head teachers early in the new year.  I very much hope that this will go well enough to be a gateway into further and deeper collaboration in the future.  Just this morning, I was on the phone to Chris about yet another possible project between three of the contributors to the book, which might result in a much wider exposure of our Habits of the Heart and Relationships Course material to Business Schools and Executive Leadership courses.