June 2026 · TRIP26
Why do relational public services fail?
Conference presentation.
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Public sessions
Talks, teaching, and workshops
Public talks, workshops, and presentation slides.
StretchCon presentations
Two talks on leadership, organisation, and the conditions for effective teams.
2022 · Stretch Conference · 45 minutes
Five core practices for effective organisation
A conference talk on the practices that support effective leadership and organisation.
Open →2023 · StretchCon at Compass Tech Summit · 38 minutes
Cadenced culture: high-performing teams based on trust
Building the conditions for trust and effective work in teams.
Open →Public SCiO sessions
Recordings, workshop resources, and presentation slides.
April 2014 · SCiO
Power+Systems: systems blindness and systems sight
An introduction to Barry Oshry’s approach to patterns of power and experience in organisations.
View presentation details →2022 · SCiO recording
Systems leadership, change, theory and practice
A presentation on systems leadership and systems change, followed by questions.
Open →SCiO presentation details →2021 · SCiO recording
The four quadrants of thinking threats
If systems thinking offers great power, what does responsibility look like?
Open →SCiO presentation details →2017 · SCiO recording
Introduction to the Viable System Model
An introduction to Stafford Beer’s model, delivered at the January 2017 London Open Day.
Open →SCiO presentation details →2016 · SCiO recording
System leadership: what does it mean to lead a system?
A talk at the SCiO Open Day in London on 11 July 2016.
Open →SCiO presentation details →WCoMC and SCiO · recorded panel
Systems thinking and consultancy
A discussion hosted by the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants with SCiO practitioners.
Open →WCoMC and SCiO · recorded panel
Systems thinking and consultancy: questions and answers
Audience questions and panel discussion following the systems thinking and consultancy session.
Open →October 2017 · SCiO · 61 minutes
Meta-contextuality through the medium of Bongard games
A presentation on pattern, context and the limits of method.
Open →SCiO presentation details →September 2025 · SysPrac25
Systemic consulting: rethinking the consultant’s role
A public SCiO workshop resource on consulting as partnership, dialogue, and co-creation.
Open →December 2024 · SCiO
Large-group processes
A detailed public deck on whole-system and participatory methods.
Open →November 2024 · SCiO
Productive conversations
Honest, constructive conversations and shared learning.
Open →April 2021 · SCiO
Metaphor
Niki Jobson and Benjamin P Taylor on metaphor, framing, and problem-setting.
Open →Presentation slides
Download slides on systems practice, leadership, and public-service change.
2025
Better conversations for better realities
Learning loops to break the devil’s bargain.
Open →2025
Outcomes are the results of complex adaptive systems
A public-service outcomes presentation.
Open →2025
Viable System Model lecture
A long-form teaching deck on Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model.
Open →2025
Systems convening and boundary work
A compact set of core slides on convening across boundaries.
Open →2025
Spaces and leadership stands
A short working deck on systemic position and leadership response.
Open →2024
Positive dynamics of differentiation and integration
An ISSS presentation on differentiation, homogenisation, individuation, and integration.
Open →2024
Clarity practices
Five core management and leadership practices, with a focus on clarity.
Open →2023
Power, systems, and the Viable System Model
A Metaphorum presentation connecting VSM, power, and human systems dynamics.
Open →2023
A simplification of the Viable System Model
A concise four-slide introduction to organisational viability.
Open →2023
Introduction to four dynamics
Segmentation, blending, empowerment, and harmonisation.
Open →2023
Systems leadership, change, theory and practice
A substantial public presentation on systems leadership, change, theory, and convening.
Open →Working reference
Five key questions for transformation
A one-page prompt for thinking about purpose, system, activity, and learning.
Open →Systems methods practice: alpha version
Technical dry runs with worked examples and answers
Alpha practice pack by Benjamin P Taylor (2026): free systems-method dry runs with worked examples and answers. Technical learning supports, but does not replace, real-world systems practice.