Miles Hanson: Profile

In a career spanning three decades Miles has helped hundreds of leaders, teams and organisations to collaborate more effectively. He has experienced the thrill of shared achievement and has seen what happens when group efforts fizzle out. His professional life has been – and continues to be – one collaboration after another.

Miles set up The Collaboration Company in 2004 to help organisations, and people within organisations, to collaborate more effectively. He had recognised that leaders in organisations everywhere were increasingly calling for more collaboration but were finding it difficult to kick start a real change of behaviours in their people and teams.

In his practical and interactive sessions Miles explains why collaboration is important and how to make it happen in your team and organisation. He shares insights on collaboration based on his experience of delivering collaboration capability programmes for organisations, executive groups, leaders, teams and collaboration champions across private, public and social sectors.

Miles shares his years of experience in delivering ground breaking collaboration capability programmes and facilitating collaboration projects with organisations like Apple, British Airways, Cabinet Office, NHS, Pfizer, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Unilever and Virgin.

He reveals lessons about planning, organising, trouble shooting and inspiring effective collaboration projects in and around your team and organisation. Miles sees collaboration as a daily practice and his session is rich in examples of the three key elements of brilliant collaboration:

Being – creating the energy and belief in yourself and your people combined with greater personal awareness, mastery of collaborative attitude and role modelling excellent behaviours for collaboration.

Doing – tools, techniques and process for inspiring collaboration, being collaborative and facilitating collaboration in others.

Learning – your people craving and constantly giving feedback and your organisation structured to be constantly learning new ways to collaborate.