Matthew Bennett
Executive Coach for Organisational Culture and Talent Development • Willow Ethos
United Kingdom •
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Matthew Bennett: Willow Ethos Matthew Bennett is the Founding Partner of Willow Ethos, a UK business and leadership consultancy based in Bristol. Matthew frequently delivers talks to organisations on culture, leadership, and the future of work. His work focuses on people first, how they behave at …
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Signature Programs (6)
This programme explores how AI is changing the way people think, work, collaborate, decide and lead. It focuses on the behavioural implications of AI, helping organisations understand not only what technology can do, but how people need to adapt in order to use it effectively and responsibly.
Key Takeaways
- Understand how AI is reshaping work and leadership; identify the behavioural shifts required for effective AI adoption; explore the risks of treating AI as purely a technical change; learn how to keep work human, purposeful and performance-focused in an AI-enabled environment.
Audience
Senior leaders, HR leaders, transformation teams, people managers, technology leaders, organisational development professionals, and employees preparing for AI-enabled ways of working.
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This programme helps organisations move beyond abstract values and culture statements by translating culture into observable behaviours, leadership routines and practical ways of working. It focuses on how behaviour change happens in real organisations and how leaders can create conditions for culture to shift in measurable and sustainable ways.
Key Takeaways
- Understand culture as a system of everyday behaviours; learn how to translate values into practical action; identify the leadership behaviours that reinforce or undermine culture; explore how to measure and sustain behaviour change over time.
Audience
Executive teams, senior leaders, HR and people teams, organisational development professionals, change leaders, culture programme leads, and managers responsible for embedding organisational values.
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This programme examines how organisations can make better senior hiring, promotion and succession decisions using behavioural insight, structured assessment and evidence-based judgement. It highlights the risks of relying too heavily on intuition, reputation or past performance, and shows how to assess leadership potential, cultural fit and derailment risk more effectively.
Key Takeaways
- Understand what makes senior talent decisions complex; learn how to evaluate leadership potential and behavioural risk; explore how structured assessment improves fairness and accuracy; identify ways to reduce bias and increase confidence in critical people decisions.
Audience
Boards, executive teams, HR directors, talent leaders, recruitment teams, succession planning leads, assessment professionals, and senior leaders involved in appointment or promotion decisions.
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