About Ian Lock
Ian Lock is an experienced leadership consultant and has been a core member of the SRA team for many years.
My approach to leadership is grounded in the belief that the best leaders have the people around them feeling great about who they are and what they are up against whilst making sure they deliver outstanding results. The most influential leaders I have worked with are superb at helping their people believe in themselves and brilliant at encouraging them to develop a greater sense of purpose around their work. Not surprisingly this then has a big impact on the colleagues and teams who they lead.
I love the work that I do and really enjoy working with leaders who are truly up to something in their lives and their organisations. I’ve learnt over the years that if the leader isn’t thirsty then rarely will the organisation be either. To this end my first conversation with any leader includes questions such as ‘what are you up to, what is important to you here and can you get me excited about your future?'
When I’m not working with others on their leadership I enjoy a passion for cars and motor sport including running and driving an older 911 and racing in my own karting team. I also enjoy walking and being a South Downs Warden, socialising and spending precious time with my wife Diane and our 3 mostly wonderful children, Joshua, Roddy and Imogen.
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Ian Lock
21 February 2011
We can often spend time thinking about our leadership and how we are doing as leaders against our aspirations. I notice that I can spend time focusing on how I’m doing as a leader and be asking myself how I showed up today, where I was behaving at my best and where I was not [...]
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8 November 2010
It was the end of a long week and I’d been working in my office all Friday. Everything seemed to be going wrong and nothing I put my hand to was working out right. I was getting frustrated with all I was trying to do and I started to become generally cross with the world. [...]
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12 July 2010
Human beings are fantastic. I’m constantly reminded of this especially when I’m talking with people who are ‘up to something’ big. These people are aware that they need to draw on something special to pull it off. For many of us being at our best or the best we can imagine is enough to get [...]
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7 June 2010
In the world of leadership meaning is everything. One of the questions I often ask clients is: ‘What are you making it mean?’ ‘It’ being anything from something someone says, their tone of voice, the way they are looking at us to news of a set back or even news of a success. I first [...]
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22 March 2010
I really liked Anni’s recent note on the power of committing to another’s success. Here’s my take on this topic. Without the commitment of George – a leadership consultant with whom I worked for several years – my success today may have been very different. About twelve years ago, and after much soul searching, I [...]
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2 November 2009
I often have a conversation with leaders about this question. It usually involves the realisation that they had reached the limits of everything they knew before they took on their current role. This is a great place for the progressive leader to find themselves in. It means they can stop looking brilliant by having the [...]
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