Mike Mister

Mike Mister works with professional services firms on designing, developing and supporting change agendas and building improved leadership capabilities in executives. Mike spent his early career in retail banking and in the defence industry. He then became a consultant and spent time at Ernst & Young initially in the UK Firm before becoming EY’s Global Director Executive Development. He has over 30 years experience working internationally with senior leaders and their teams. Mike has published various evidenced based articles and has an MBA from The Open University. Mike is co-author of How to Lead Smart People and From Work Life to New Life – Rewriting the Rules of Retirement.

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Getting Started with Leadership (Coursera)

In this course, you will discover the importance of understanding context and its impact on the individual as a leader. You’ll consider how you define leadership and explore how organisations work through an exploration of the “what” and “why” of your own working environment. You will also look at [...]

Stepping Up: Preparing Yourself for Leadership (Coursera)

In this course, you will explore the importance of self awareness and feedback, as well as issues such as bias and imposter syndrome. As a leader, it is important to know when to step in and lead, as well as how to establish boundaries and resolve conflict. This [...]

Stepping Up: Leading Others (Coursera)

In this course, you will look at how to work with a diverse range of people to create and lead a high performing team. You will consider the differences between work groups and teams and explore team dynamics, the nature of remote teams and cross-cultural implications of leading teams. [...]

Influencing the Organisation (Coursera)

In this course, you will look at how you can effectively manage stakeholders and industry/organisational politics, whilst successfully mobilising people. This course is aimed at leaders and managers who have five to six years experience and who are beginning to manage teams, customers and clients more regularly or more [...]