JULIE BEARDWELLnbsp;is Associate Dean, Leeds Business School, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. JEFF GOLD is Principal Lecturer in Organisation Learning at Leeds Business School, Leeds Metropolitan University and a member of the Northern Leadership Academy. RICK HOLDEN is currently Principal Lecturer in the School of Human Resource Management, Leeds Business School, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. PAUL ILES is a Running Stream Professor in HRD at Leeds Business School, having previously worked at the University of Teesside, Liverpool John Moores University and the Open University. JIM STEWART is a Running Stream Professor in HRD at Leeds Business School, Leeds Metropolitan University,… UK.