The Practice

Madeleine Jarvis is a specialist in the emergence of corporate cultures. She took her first degree following several years direct work experience, during which she rose to senior management level within service environments. Two years ago she graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University Business School in Business Enterprise as the highest achieving student of her year. Since then she has researched, developed and delivered the unique technologies of The Cultureship Practice within both public and private sector organisations. She has recently won prestigious research funding to support a Ph.D into her ideas on how corporate culture can be better harnessed as an earlier stage development tool without compromising the beauty and power of Community, Contribution & Recognition. Madeleine’s central belief is that bad places to work are almost inevitably places of bad work.

Malcolm Evans is an experienced businessperson, researcher and communicator. His first degree is in Social & Political Sciences from Cambridge University. He is currently working towards the completion of his Ph.D at Manchester Metropolitan University. His major interests have always been in theories of human motivation, the intersection of personality and culture, and, within an organisational context, the differentiators between corporate mediocrity and excellence. Malcolm pursued a career in journalism for several years after his first degree, winning Young Journalist of the Year for campaigning and investigative work. However, for the last 20 years he has worked in independent consultancy, always with a focus on organisational development but also with various periods of high involvement in corporate finance. The Cultureship Practice is his lifetime's career dream, seeking to bring together his enduring interest in human fulfilment with his and Madeleine's deeply researched methodologies into how to translate these ideas into sustainable organisational excellence. Community, Contribution & Recognition is a credo he wishes to share as widely as possible.

Madeleine and Malcolm's collaboration grew out of Innospace, which has emerged as a national exemplar of enterprise culture.