CPD Team

For several years now the National CPD Team has been responsible for identifying key thinkers in education and encouraging them to contribute to Scottish education. These ‘international thought leaders’ include leading figures such as Terry Dozier, Richard Elmore and Ellen Moir.

Professor Patrick Duignan is Foundation Chair in Educational Leadership and Director of the Flagship for Creative and Authentic Leadership at Australian Catholic University.

Arranged and organised by the National CPD Team, this April ’08 visit involved Patrick Duignan making presentations in Dumfries and Galloway and in Moray Council. The nature of authentic leadership is explored and its connection to authentic teaching and learning explained using three core ethics – authenticity, responsibility and presence. Patrick focuses on contemporary leadership challenges for educational leaders. A leading researcher in the field, he provides a practical approach to improving leadership through greater understanding of ethical concepts and theories, presented, explained and applied to real-life tensions. Patrick emphasises the importance of real presence for influential leadership with practical suggestions on how to develop presence and influence what really matters.

Both of the leadership seminars, in Dumfries and Elgin, were very well attended with over 80 participants at each. Both sets of evaluations completed by the participants proved to be extremely positive.

Tags: authentic leadership, Duigna, Leadership, presence
Categories: CPD guests, Leadership, international