UK Associate

Chris is a leading consultant in organizational and management learning and change (individual and collective). He specialises in analysis and practice in organizations based on systemic and relational understanding of how organizations co-ordinate activity - particularly the organizing power of communications. Chris has over 20 years experience of mentoring and advising clients, enabling pragmatic dialogue between key stakeholders and integrating action-orientated learning programmes in the context of real organizational change in the UK, Europe and North America (also in Cyprus and Egypt). Chris has undertaken numerous development, intervention and research projects aimed at helping managers, organisations, partnerships and networks to improve and enhance their  effectiveness and confidence.

Chris's repertoire of skills and activities includes: Pragmatic approaches to  leadership & management development, qualitative and quantitative research, communications analysis strategy and re-organization, change management, organizational development, organizing for collaboration and partnering, stakeholder engagement, mentoring and coaching, integrating interactive and project based on-line platforms for enhancing organization performance, on-line learning and development, multi-organizational co-ordination, action learning, executive and management support, customer or service user relations development.

Chris works with organisations in both the private and public sectors - particularly in health and Social Care. He works predominantly in the UK but also Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland, Canada, USA, Egypt, Cyprus. Current clients include: Skills For Care (England), Ceredigion Social services, Egypt Post (Ministry of Communications and Technology - Egypt)

Chris is actively involved in research and development and is widely published in the  fields of ‘organizational & cultural change', ‘individual and collective learning', ‘management development' and the emerging field of ‘relational practice' (which gives particular attention to the influence on behaviour and learning of contextual conditions - often missing in other ‘learning and organising' disciplines).

Recent publications include:

• Blantern, Chris. Relational Practice - ‘The Daily Things We Do', in Steyaert, Chris, Ed., [to be published 2008] Boydell,
• Tom & Blantern, Chris. Action learning as relational practice. In Action Learning: Research and Practice Vol. 4, No. 1, April 2007, pp. 95-104
• Blantern C. & Anderson-Wallace, M. Patterns of Engagement. In Hosking, D. & McNamee, S. Eds. The Social Construction of Organization, pp 70-85. Copenhagen Business School Press, 2006
• Blantern C. & Anderson-Wallace, M. Disturbing Patterns of Engagement. In Hosking, D. & McNamee, S. Eds. The Social Construction of Organization, pp 282-294. Copenhagen Business School Press, 2006
• Anderson-Wallace, M & Blantern, C. Working with Culture, , Organisational Development In Healthcare: Approaches, Innovations, Achievements, Radcliffe. 2005 pp 187-205

Chris  an Associate of the Taos Institute, USA: http://www.taosinstitute.net/ and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Health Improvement  leadership at Lincoln University: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/chill

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