Welcome to Wave Your Arms. I design and lead executive development programmes for senior leaders. I blog about the future of work and leadership, as well a movies, screenwriting and music. I facilitate and produce thought-leadership events. I write and hope to be enjoyably read. Please explore the BLOG and, if anything strikes a chord, or flicks a switch, feel free to share or connect. If you would like to get in touch, please do reach out at: info@waveyourarms.com, or perhaps follow on @waveyourarms, or on Linked-in.

My new book GLUE - Transforming Leadership in a hybrid World has just been published by Routledge. GLUE was written for anyone who has a genuine interest in leading others with impact. You may be on the Executive Management team of your firm. If you are, then you will find some unusual role-model approaches to emulate and inspire. You may be new to a leadership role. If that is you, then the principles described apply, regardless of your years of experience, or the size of your firm. Glue is for anyone who wants to better harness the skills, energies, and ideas of others. Whatever your role, function, sector, or seniority, this book sets out a distinctive vision of the firm and shows the profound impact you can make through creating and nurturing glue.

You can find out more - in the GLUE section of the website.

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About John Dore

Programme Director at London Business School, the #5 ranked Executive Education provider in the world
Facilitator | Learning Director | Educator | Speaker | Writer | Blogger | Founder of Wave Your Arms Ltd
Author of GLUE - Transforming Leadership in a Hybrid World
Connect: Tweeting: @waveyourarms; Showing-off: linkedin.com/in/johndore; Pictures: jdwaving;

Currently

✍️ Writing: Seven Dials, Mispell’d (‘tis new), The Organisational Advantage [Linked-in newsletter, pieces for HBR Ascend, HR Magazine, INC, etc.
📚 Reading: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, False Alarm by Bjorn Lomborg, In The Distance by Hernan Diaz, Babel by R F Huang, Adverntures in Modern Recording by Trevor Horn, The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu,
👨‍🎤 Listening: Lucy Rose, Far From Saints, Gathering of Strangers, Champs, Chain Wallet, Crown Lands, Leif Erikson, The War on Drugs, Wild Front, Kawala, Steve Hackett, Big Big Train, The People Versus, Admiral Fallow, Gathering of Stangers, Knocking Ghost, Dave Matthews Band.
🎧 Following: Radar by nexxworks, Emergency Awesome, UnchartedX, Rene Ritchie, Acquaholic, eSysman Super Yachts
📺 Watching: Foundation (Season 2), Silo (Season 1), The Elon Musk Show, The House of Dragons, The Worst Person in the World, Everything Everywhere At Once, Dune, The Mandalorian, Succession, Oppenheimer, Mission Impossible 7.1
🧐 Enthusing: Business Books, The Pig, Groundhog Day, Hockney, Progressive Rock, NRL, Science Fiction, NZ Sauvignon, Obelisks, Space X, Cathedrals,
😷 Rediscovering: The Union Club, Home House, Picturehouse Cinemas, Proms, Dining, Live Gigs, Festivals, Eagles, Foo Fighters
✈️ Traveling: Muscat, Oman, February 2024, Sorrento, June 2023, Florence April 2023, Liguria, June 2022, Rome, November 2021 ,Obelisks, Pasta and All' Antico Vinaio, Tonarello

Working

Currently: I produce the Senior Executive Programme (SEP), LBS’s flagship Exec Ed programme
Stripes: 20+ years live facilitation experience in the UK, Paris, Monaco, Geneva, Zurich, Frankfurt, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, New York, Miami, San Francisco
Corner Office: Former Global CMO of HSBC Private Bank; Programme Director for Barclays UK Headquarters relocation in 2005
IP: The Organisational Advantage (and Survey), The Art of High Performance, The Perfect Product, I teach the WARPS method for Storytelling, GLUE
🎬 Credentials: Screenwriting moments include options for Leicester Square and The Vivid

A little background

When I first started writing a blog called Wave Your Arms in 2007, Apple had not yet released the iPhone and music was bought in strange places called shops. I started the Blog as an enjoyable diversion for me to write about the business of creativity and the many inspiring speakers, presenters and artists I have had the pleasure of working with around the world. Since then, I have travelled to some eye-opening places, worked with some inspirational business leaders, wealthy next-generation entrepreneurs, watched too many films and bemoaned the narrowing range of artists I could still see live, before they died. On the Blog I also documented some of my own adventures in the ‘La La Land’ of film-making, covering the Cannes Film festival, various screenwriting ventures and a few trips to Hollywood itself. Please see the Creative pages for more. In 2014, the online Blog morphed into an offline adventure when I launched Wave Your Arms Ltd as a start-up business; drawing upon a career that has encompassed global experience in HR, Learning, Change, Communications and Marketing. In the past seven years, I have been working in senior executive development, providing consulting services and working with Faculty and colleagues at London Business School which remains a great place to experience research, ideas, people and their ambitions become fused. I’ve had the great pleasure of working with innovative businesses, organisations, senior leaders and inspiring thought-leaders and very many terrific people in the UK and internationally. In 2021, I began The Smorgasbord, a listing of (probably) the best business books of this century.

My professional expertise is in the design and delivery of learning experiences for senior leaders - either through formal executive development programmes, or corporate leadership workshops, off-sites, strategy days and meetings. I have a deep interest in the way senior people act and interact in these pseudo-informal settings and business education environments. Some of this I have learnt through experience (working with hundreds of groups around the world over 20 years), often using psychometric tools and through facilitation and engagement techniques learnt from some of the most engaging speakers, business teachers and academics in the world.

If you would like to get in touch, please do reach out at info@waveyourarms.com, or why not follow on @waveyourarms

John Dore
October 2023