Global Leadership Perspectives: Insights and Analysis

About Eric-Jean GarciaSimon Western

Simon Western is CEO and founder of Analytic-Network Coaching Ltd an avant-garde coaching company whose purpose is to coach leaders to act in good faith to create the good society www.analyticnetwork.com.  He is an internationally recognized thought leader on leadership coaching and organizational behaviour. Taking his unique experience and an unusual theoretical position into the workplace he draws on critical theory networked theory social movement theory and psychoanalysis to help leaders develop new insights act ethically and create progressive change in organizations.    Simon leads advanced coaching and leadership training courses to develop new Eco-leadership approaches to help leaders adapt to todays disruptive network society. With over 200 registered coaches across the globe Analytic-Network Coaching is growing fast. He shares his thinking as an international keynote speaker academic and is author of three acclaimed books; Global Leadership Perspectives Insights and Analysis (with Eric-Jean Gautier)  Leadership: A Critical Text (3rd edn: Sage 2019) and Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text (Sage 2012).  Simon works directly with senior leaders on radical change strategies organizational change and in-depth on personal and leadership challenges drawing on his psychotherapist background.  Dr Éric-Jean Garcia received a PhD in Higher Education & Leadership Development from the Institute of Education University College London (UCL) and holds an MBA from the University of Dallas (Texas USA). Éric-Jean is Affiliate Professor of Leadership at Sciences Po Paris (France) where he leads several leadership programmes in Executive Education. He is also an international keynote speaker and advisor in leadership for business and public organizations and author of two award-winning books: Leadership (De Boeck 2011) and Le génie du leadership (Dunod 2013). Through his work Éric-Jean seeks to foster critical thinking challenge taken-for-granted assumptions and beliefs reveal dilemmas of leadership and advocate the development of contextually and ethically relevant organizational strategies.