Tim Macartney
London, UK
Macartney is an imaginative writer, speaker, and storyteller.
Mac is the Founder and Chairman of 'Pathways - Spirit in Business Ltd'. He never considered a career developing corporate leaders until, working as a gardener in a management training school, he realised that business holds the future of our sacred and fragile earth in its uncertain care. Twenty years later Pathways has established itself as a leading international consultancy in leadership, organisational transformation and corporate social responsibility. Amongst various projects currently underway Mac is leading voyages for business leaders in the Western Isles of Scotland on board 'Volharding', Pathways' 80' sea-going Dutch sailing Tjalk. As the co-founder and Chairman of Pathways Poland he is also mentor to another boat project, a 50-metre barge that will spearhead Pathways Poland's work in championing corporate social responsibility in Poland. Five years ago Mac was offered the means to purchase a 50 acre farm in Devon, England, by an appreciative client with whom he had worked over a number of years. This property is now being developed as a "retreat" for business leaders - a garden in which many of the ideas that inform spirit in business will be nurtured, take root, and find practical expression in the commercial world. Mac is also a writer, speaker, and storyteller; this year he spent the winter months alone on a remote Scottish island writing the book that has been patiently awaiting his undivided attention. With only the winter Atlantic storms for company the first draft of "The Invisible Path" took shape and found expression. Leaving his island fastness he travelled to Mumbai in India where he joined 200 Unilever Best Foods (Asia) leaders on a journey exploring "Greatness", in the slums, in the desert of Rajasthan, and in the leaders themselves. All of Mac's work is informed by his conviction that we have to re-awaken a new sense of "belonging" in our leaders; a profound sense of responsibility; awe, that we should be alive at this time of confrontation and opportunity; and an absolute determination to meet the challenges of our age with courage, imagination, and energy.
Mac is the Founder and Chairman of 'Pathways - Spirit in Business Ltd'. He never considered a career developing corporate leaders until, working as a gardener in a management training school, he realised that business holds the future of our sacred and fragile earth in its uncertain care. Twenty years later Pathways has established itself as a leading international consultancy in leadership, organisational transformation and corporate social responsibility. Amongst various projects currently underway Mac is leading voyages for business leaders in the Western Isles of Scotland on board 'Volharding', Pathways' 80' sea-going Dutch sailing Tjalk. As the co-founder and Chairman of Pathways Poland he is also mentor to another boat project, a 50-metre barge that will spearhead Pathways Poland's work in championing corporate social responsibility in Poland. Five years ago Mac was offered the means to purchase a 50 acre farm in Devon, England, by an appreciative client with whom he had worked over a number of years. This property is now being developed as a "retreat" for business leaders - a garden in which many of the ideas that inform spirit in business will be nurtured, take root, and find practical expression in the commercial world. Mac is also a writer, speaker, and storyteller; this year he spent the winter months alone on a remote Scottish island writing the book that has been patiently awaiting his undivided attention. With only the winter Atlantic storms for company the first draft of "The Invisible Path" took shape and found expression. Leaving his island fastness he travelled to Mumbai in India where he joined 200 Unilever Best Foods (Asia) leaders on a journey exploring "Greatness", in the slums, in the desert of Rajasthan, and in the leaders themselves. All of Mac's work is informed by his conviction that we have to re-awaken a new sense of "belonging" in our leaders; a profound sense of responsibility; awe, that we should be alive at this time of confrontation and opportunity; and an absolute determination to meet the challenges of our age with courage, imagination, and energy.
2010