Approaches for Flourishing: Alex Battison

The Learning Future Podcast with Louka Parry

What are the ingredients, components and other big Cs for human flourishing? What tools are available and what are unneeded to achieve our visions?

Alex sets out clear and enactable frameworks and approaches to achieve our visions and ultimately create systems in our work and life geared for human flourishing.

Alex Battison is Senior Deputy Head at Lord Wandsworth College in Hampshire, UK. Previous to that, he was on the SLT at Wells Cathedral school in Somerset and taught at Hurstpierpoint College in West Sussex, holding a variety of different roles.

He is Chair of Educational Futures at Harvard’s Human Flourishing Programme and in May 2022 he was one of 51 individuals convened to discuss the future of education at Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria, with the work produced then being published at the UN Conference for Transforming Education in New York last September. He is a Salzburg Global and RSA fellow, has a Masters in Learning and Teaching from Oxford, and is currently in the last year of a Doctorate in Leadership, Learning and Policy from Bristol University.

Outside of school, Alex is routinely engaged in exploring and collaborating for educational transformation around the world, following his dream of co-creating the future of education.

Alex is also involved in two international working groups that are collaborating to affect systemic change; one that has a focus on supporting school leaders in the UK, and the other investigating inter-generational leadership and methods of co-construction as pathways for greater societal flourishing. Alex consults in other industries where he mentors for both the Premier League and Reluctantly Brave in the areas of leadership and culture change, which exposes him to transformational leadership environments away from schools.

Transcripts available at www.thelearningfuture.com

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This Season is done in partnership with Salzburg Global Seminar. https://www.salzburgglobal.org/

Please check out our partner’s publication advocating for education transformation: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/issue/transformed-the-case-for-education-transformation