Dr Mark McKergow has spent 30 years in the management and leadership development world. He loves to bring new ideas into the field, particularly those which:

• Make ‘hard’ things easier, quicker, cheaper, more rewarding and more accessible
• Use abilities and know-how people already have (and perhaps have not noticed yet)
• Take a counter-intuitive or unexpected turn

His work in brain friendly learning (where learning increases when the teacher teaches less), Solutions Focus (where problem-solving is avoided in favour of building towards what people want, using what’s working already) and Host Leadership (where leaders focus on bringing people together rather than on making decisions on their own) is in use around the world – Mark has worked on every continent except Antarctica. He is the author of six books including The Solutions Focus (with Paul Z Jackson), Host Leadership (with Helen Bailey) and Hosting Generative Change. His latest book is The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice (Routledge, 2021).

He is also one of the creators of OSKAR, the solution-focused framework that features in the Mentoring Toolkit.

These days Mark works mostly as an author, speaker and coach supervisor.  His latest project, Village In The City, applies all this to micro-local community building in urban settings.  He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and colleague Jenny Clarke.

Website http://sfwork.com, http://hostleadership.com, http://villageinthecity.net