Keith Kinsella, Ph.D.
13a Milton Crescent
Eastbourne BN21 1SP
UK
Email:kckinsella@btinternet.com
Phone: +44 1323 416607
Keith Kinsella is an independent systemic facilitator and coach who
retired recently following 40 years experience working in various
capacities on the challenges of managing change and developing
leadership in large private and public sector organizations in the UK.
His own practice has been influenced principally by systemic, social
constructionist, appreciative, narrative, and dialogic ideas and
approaches, which he has had the opportunity to experience, try out,
develop, and embody in a wide variety of situations with organizations
like the NHS, Royal Mail, British Airways, Prudential, Unilever, Selex
Gallileo, VISA, and Vestas. His two most significant clients where he
was able to develop and work within more creative open-ended
relationships over the longer term, have been: the BBC where he provided
facilitation and development support to small and large groups over a
14 year period [1990- 2003] engaged in rapid technological and market
change; and the University of Exeter where he worked on the online
coached MA program in Leadership Studies for 10 years [2004-2014]
helping develop the program and providing one to one coaching to
students during their studies. During this latter period he was able to
carry out action research on his working practices in regard to the
educational learning taking place within the context of student-coach
relations during the 2 year program, to gain his PhD at Bath University.
His main focus now is on how to presence dialogic relations and the
relational practices involved in increasing receptivity and
responsiveness within groups and networks. Through these inquiries he
continues to seek to reveal and influence with others, the processes
involved in using more improvisatory approaches to organizing, and how
people can learn to do this more often in the process of getting things
done.
In the past he has been a Fellow of the Institute of Management
Consultants and a Fellow of Exeter University’s Centre for Leadership
Studies. He has also been involved at various times in supporting
learning activities at the Grubb Institute, Tavistock Institute,
Kensington Consultation Centre, Birkbeck College, Kings College London,
and Exeter University. He has also been an external examiner of the
leadership syllabus of the Executive MBA at Scandinavian International
Management Institute in Copenhagen.
His thesis which has the title Revealing what is
‘tacit/rationally-invisible/in the background’: an online coaching
pedagogy for developing improved leadership practice through ‘presencing
empathetic responsiveness’ can be viewed at:
http://www.actionresearch.net/living/keithkinsella.shtml
In addition to his PhD thesis, he has co-authored a book [and
contributed a chapter to a second book] on ‘working systemically in
large organizations’, both published by Karnac London:
- Systemic Work with Organizations: A New Model for Managers and Change Agents, 1994. Campbell, D, Coldicott, T, and Kinsella, K. ISBN 13 : 9781855751002; ISBN 10 : 1855751003
- Organizations Connected: A Handbook of Systemic Consultation, 2008. Edited by Campbell, D, and Huffington, C. ISBN 13 : 9781855756694; ISBN 10 : 1855756692
He has also co-authored a paper published in the journal of Leadership that describes the lessons of the early years of the online coached MA in Leadership Studies at Exeter University:
- Ladkin, D., Case, P., Gay Wicks, P. and Kinsella, K. (2009) Developing leaders in cyber-space: how distance-learning enables leaders to get close to where it matters. Leadership, 5 (2). pp. 193-212. ISSN 1742-7150