Patrick Ballin

Patrick Ballin is a socialised maverick in conformist clothing. He works as an executive, team and career coach with charity and private sector clients throughout Europe as well as North America, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. He completed advanced coaching training at Ashridge Business School, spent 10 years as a visiting lecturer at Brighton Business School and was awarded a National HEA Teaching Fellowship in 2018. Patrick has led accreditation programmes for Belbin Associates in the UK and North America, is a Fellow of the RSA and holds an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. Before starting his coaching practice, Patrick worked in managerial positions in the personal computer industry and went on to become Global Head of Supply Chain and Logistics Development at The Body Shop International plc. He is a Trustee for the prisoner befriending charity LifeLines, a past Trustee of The Body Shop Foundation and a pro bono coach for On Purpose.
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We are all abnormal

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We’re all abnormal, and that’s a good thing! Who wants to be normal? A huge amount of organisational effort goes into normalising behaviour: competency statements, sheep-dip training programmes, annual appraisals and, at a subtler level, peer pressure...
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Opening the Window on Internal Leadership

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Opening the Window on Internal Leadership. There’s a lot of talk in my working life around leadership and change. Something I have heard a lot recently relating to these subjects is, in various forms, "these...
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Managing Perceptions and Connections

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Managing Perceptions and Connections. I’ve been thinking a lot about how we maintain connections within our teams and cross-team collaborations. It became harder when nearly everyone was sent home to work. It got harder again...
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Questions and Collaboration

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Questions and Collaboration ... "We live in worlds our questions create" David Cooperrider We all know the stereotype of the persuasive individual – armed with all the arguments, they hold their ground, argue their point and,...
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Visualising Change Together

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Visualising Change Together. Socialised Mavericks use visual techniques to engage partners and colleagues around change. I was running a couple of workshops earlier this week with healthcare leaders and happened into a discussion about how Socialised...
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Maverick AI: exponential connections

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Maverick AI: how connections between people add exponential intelligence. Socialised Mavericks know how to use connections between people in an intentional way, to achieve extraordinary results. In recent articles for the Maverick Paradox Magazine, I...
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Being wilfully intentional about collaboration

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Being wilfully intentional about collaboration. Socialised mavericks don’t simply randomly collaborate. We collaborate with wilful intention. What do I mean by that? Very simply, Socialised Mavericks are very concerned about getting stuff done, and done well....
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Diversity and Inclusion

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Diversity and Inclusion - a Maverick Team perspective. Diversity and inclusion. Surely this is the domain of well-meaning conformists in the HR department? Or maybe a concern to special interests: women, black and minority ethnic...
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What charities really want – more mavericks

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What charities really want – more mavericks, please! In your mind’s eye, what does a charity’s Board of Trustees look like? Socks and sandals? Jam and Jerusalem? The great, titled and good? Male, pale and...
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