Recent London Business School Appointments

Vyla Rollins invited to join London Business School's Centre for Management Development as Freelance Programme Director/Learning Facilitator

Intention PR is pleased is please to announce that Vyla L. Rollins has been invited to join London Business School's Centre for Management Development as a Freelance Programme Director/Learning Facilitator. Vyla's selection manifested as result of an independent assessment process commissioned by London Business School's Centre for Management Development and designed and run by Nicholson McBride Consulting.

Depending on the requirements of the programmes she will be invited to support, Vyla will be called upon to play one or more roles on the programmes she is involved in, including Faculty Member, Learning Facilitator, Guest Lecture, Executive Coach and/or Tutor.

On learning that she had been invited to join the select pool of individuals acting as Freelance Programme Directors/Learning facilitators, Vyla commented:

"I am extremely excited and honoured to have been invited to join this group of unquestionably talented and experienced individuals, who are committed to creating leading edge learning interventions for LBS clients. I'm especially looking forward to building on the learning I acquired from working with Ron Heifitz on his Executive Education programme at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and also bringing to bear the experience of designing and delivering programmes I've gained from working with organisations such as Methanex Ltd, HM Revenue and Customs, Royal Mail, Shell, British Telecom, and Scholastic Education".

This invitation follows on the back of Vyla's invitation last year to join London Business School Executive Education Department's Executive Coaching group. This group is used to support the open executive development programmes run by the business school and that are attended by individuals from across the globe. In this role, Vyla has already had the opportunity to partner with Professor Michael Jarrett (author of the recently published book, "Changeability") on one of the open programmes he contributes to, facilitating a exciting experiential intervention to help participants think about and experience the power dynamics relating to change programmes

London Business School Centre for Management Development

London Business School's Centre for Management Development (CMD) designs and delivers customised programmes for groups of executives in organisations around the world. CMD works with organisations to understand their requirements and strategic business objectives, and use that understanding to design a highly effective executive development programme to address business challenges. Programmes are designed using a number of learning approeaches including, tailored case studies, action and virtual learning, discovery processes (obserrving strategy, leadership and transformation outside the classroom), business simulation, and behavioural based feedback processes.

27th October 2005

New transatlantic partnership for Corven

Cambridge Leadership Associates (CLA)

Corven is pleased to announce it has agreed a partnership with Boston-based Cambridge Leadership Associates (CLA) to provide joint pan-European consultancy services for organisations seeking to develop greater capacity for leading and adapting to change.

CLA’s methodology, called Adaptive Leadership™, stems from the groundbreaking work of Ronald A. Heifetz, a professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and author of Leadership Without Easy Answers. In 2002, Heifetz co-authored the bestselling Leadership on the Line with fellow Harvard professor Marty Linsky. The tremendous response to this book led to the founding of CLA, which applies the principles of Adaptive Leadership to commercial, government and educational institutions globally.

Adaptive Leadership™ helps individuals throughout an organisation — not just senior executives — deal directly with the value conflicts, personal and system dynamics, resistance and turmoil that are inevitable in achieving meaningful change. CLA is currently engaged by South Ayrshire Council in the UK.

Vyla Rollins, Director of Corven Consulting Services, commented: “This is a fantastic opportunity for Corven to access some of the world’s best theory in the sphere of leadership and apply it to some of the difficult business issues faced by European organisations. At Corven, we help many clients to coach and nurture their leaders for overall business benefit; there are many similarities to the way that we tackle issues and the Adaptive Leadership methodology. We feel that this is something that will aid our ability to deliver strategic and complex change projects for clients.”

Marty Linsky added: “Corven and CLA share many of the same values. We have great respect for their work. We’re very excited about joining with their professionals to make the framework of Adaptive Leadership more widely available.”

To celebrate the partnership, and to introduce the concept of Adaptive Leadership™ to the UK market, Corven will be holding a series of events in conjunction with Heifetz and Linsky in early 2006. To find out more, or to register your initial interest, please email Susan Oldman.

For more information on Adaptive Leadership™, CLA or to find out more about the partnership please visit the Corven website.

21st October 2005

Balcony seat for leadership

Marty Linsky, with Vyla Rollins: “It’s hard to see the patterns, and it’s hard to know how many are at the dance, if you are down on the floor. But if you go up on the balcony you can see other things”

Education leaders were encouraged last week to “get on the balcony” to gain a clearer perspective of leadership and how to effect change in schools.

A two-day seminar in Ayr, organised by South Ayrshire Council and part-funded by the Scottish Executive, took the leadership agenda in a new direction — which may be emulated nationally.

Marty Linsky, principal of the American leadership consultancy Cambridge Leadership Associates (CLA), and Vyla Rollins, his associate, led a two-day seminar for heads, deputes, and education officials from South and North Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway. They were encouraged to be braver, to take risks and to look at how they can move out of the comfort zone and be more innovative in their leadership.

Mr Linsky, a New York-based consultant who has been a journalist, lawyer and politician, said leadership required “getting on the balcony”, or learning the skill of reflecting in the midst of action. He differentiated between “technical problems”, which can be defined clearly and for which solutions exist, and “adaptive challenges”, which involve changing hearts and minds and choosing between contradictory value

Notice in UK Financial Times, Monday 19th July 2004

PRESS RELEASE

Corven's rapid growth continues into 5^th Year with the appointment of Vyla Rollins

London - 7 July 2004 - After celebrating its 5th Anniversary and continued growth in client assignments and results, Corven, the integrated growth & venture consultancy, is pleased to announce the appointment of Vyla Rollins as Director.

Strategic organisational development specialist Vyla Rollins will focus on leading the development of Corven's Enterprise Effectiveness offering, which will offer organisations assistance with increasing business effectiveness through offering integrated consulting support on at the individual, team and enterprise levels. With over 18 years of consulting experience Vyla has worked with clients across Europe, The Far East, Africa and the United States and has particular expertise in working with global organisations to bolster their effectiveness,, especially in the areas of strategy execution/ implementation, Team Effectiveness, Leadership Development and Executive Coaching.

On joining Corven, Vyla commented "It is fantastic to come across a consulting practice that has successfully engaged clients in seeing the strategic, business, bottom line benefits of integrated consulting support. Coven has managed to powerfully operationalise a way of partnering with clients that many consultancies seem to still be grappling with."

Prior to joining Corven, Vyla was an independent consultant for two years, during which time she worked with Scholastic Inc in the US, the largest publisher and distributor of Children's books in the world, Diageo, BT and CHS focusing on strategy clarification, change management, organisation/team effectiveness and executive coaching. Vyla has also held roles such as Head of Organisational Consulting for KPMG Career Consulting in London, Head of the London Change Practice for Sibson & Company and Principal with Mercer Delta Consulting in New York.

Joining Vyla are three more consultants with extensive experience, Tim Kruger, Andrew Williams and John Moore.

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Contacts:

Corven

Susan Oldman Marketing Manager

Kevan Jones Founding Partner 020 7747 7800

Cubitt Consulting

Serra Balls Director

Ilias Catsaros Associate Director 020 7367 5100

About Corven:

Corven is an integrated growth and venture consultancy with offices in the UK and USA. The firm has two divisions:

Corven Services provides three integrated service capabilities - management consulting, corporate finance and leadership development - to provide clients with the ideas, people and capital required to deliver new sources of wealth.

Corven Ventures enables us to practice what we preach - through investing our own profits to acquire businesses with latent growth potential and using our own people to deliver significant returns on investment.

Corven have won and been short listed for numerous business awards, including: Real Business/CBI Growing Business Awards for Most Promising Young Company, Small to Medium Sized Business of the Year at the National Business Awards 2002 and Most Innovative Working Practices at the 2003 IFS Financial Innovation Awards.