Claire Jankelson is the principal innovator of the theory of Confluential Leadership. Claire offers an overlay of practical innovative organizational solutions with a strong academic foundation in both leadership and research. Central to all her work is a passion for educating that motivates, promotes understanding and brings results. A team of close associates are available when required for larger training needs.
Claire brings a broad range of experience - consulting, facilitating and researching within organizations. She is driven to discover the underlying story or intentions that have given rise to particular situations.
Claire has:
- Initatiated programs that revitalised and inspired individual and group leadership
- Designed and conducted innovative and successful programmes for organisations throughout Australia
- Developed large-scale research initiatives that have engaged the participants and guided organisational direction
- Facilitated large and small groups for team building, empowerment and decision making
Claire teaches part time in a number of major tertiary educational institutes – including the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, UWS School of Management and The Metavision Institute.
The phenomenon of leadership
Claire’s PhD, An Engagament with the Phenomenology of Leadership, was completed in 2006. The thesis showcases an evaluation of leadership in a medium-sized industrial organisation. The central method is conversation. The influence of leadership thinkers such as Senge, Jaworski and Mintzberg are used to find more vital ways of considering the very human experience of leadership in these times of rapid change. The thesis draws on the philosophical traditions of Goethe, Husserl, Bohm and Varela to understand the nature of experience and change; and uses imaginative writing processes to develop and express reflective tools of theory and praxis.
The work of Confluential Leadership is connected with a number of organisations
- The Metavision Institute
- Centre of Existential Practice
- The Sydney Facilitators Network
- SLaM Network - Spirituality Leadership and Management. This organisation holds regular events throughout Australia. Claire serves on the board and is conference convenor for the next SLaM conference - February 2010.
- Courage to Care - a non-profit with the motto “each person can make a difference”. It provides programs on prejudice and discrimination to high school students in regional Australia.
- member of the St James Ethics Centre
- member of the Australian Institute of Management
- member of the Australian Wilderness Society