The NCVYS leadership masterclass series

Effective leadership has never been more important to the voluntary and community youth sector. With this in mind, NCVYS has collaborated with some of the most successful leaders in the country to bring a series of leadership masterclasses to senior staff across our membership. These events are free and open to all members of our network.

The leadership masterclasses are designed to foster leadership debate within the sector, touching on subjects such as how collective leadership based on effective collaboration of senior sector executives can bring solutions to the challenges of the day, or how leaders of larger organisations can support those of smaller and/or niche providers.

Attendees will benefit from a comparative view on how leaders have tackled issues including change management, inspiring innovation and modernising their organisations.

Upcoming leadership masterclasess:

Martha Lane Fox, UK digital champion for Race Online 2012
Thursday June 23, 5pm – 7pm, Offices of YouthNet, Old Street, London.

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 Martha Lane Fox is the UK’s digital champion as part of the Race Online 2012 campaign. One of the best known digital entrepreneurs of the last decade, she has a string of successes to her name including Lastminute.com and Lucky Voice.

Martha also founded the Antigone foundation in 2007. Working with small charities, the foundation promotes the successes of organisations who work with socially excluded people. Read more on her official website.

Few people in the UK are better qualified to talk about how digital tools can be used to engage and enhance the voluntary and community sector. This event will focus on how leaders can improve their organisations through the use of technology, how to identify the digital tools leaders your organisations should be using and her thoughts on how the web will evolve in the near future.

This event is organised in partnership with leading online charity YouthNet

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Previous leadership masterclasess:

Tim Smit, Chief Executive of the Eden Project
Tuesday May 24, 12pm – 1.30pm, Central London

Tim Smit is Chief Executive and co-founder of the award-winning Eden Project near St Austell in Cornwall.

Tim began work on the Eden project in 1995 and since it opened its doors to the public in 2000, over 13 million people have come to see what was once a sterile pit turned into a cradle of life containing world class horticulture and startling architecture that is symbolic of human endeavour.

Tim is well known as a leading figure in promoting entrepreneurship and has served as a social enterprise ambassador as part of the Social Enterprise Coaltion’s ambassador programme.
Read more on the Eden project website.

This masterclass will cover a variety of themes including the role of entrepreneurship and social enterprise for the voluntary sector, how to foster an innovation culture amongst your staff and turning ideas into results.

Charlie Mayfield, Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership
Wednesday March 30, 4pm – 6pm, The Fisher Organisation

Charlie Mayfield, Chairman of the John Lewis partnership led the first of NCVYS’s series of leadership masterclasses on Wednesday 30 March 2011. Held at the offices of event sponsors HW Fisher and Co., Charlie spoke to delegates about the challenges of leadership and how voluntary sector leaders can empower their staff to prosper in a challenging climate.

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