Alister Scott

Dr Alister Scott is co-author of the Little Book of Making Big Change Happen with Neil Scotton. Together, they are co-founders of the One Leadership Project, which supports teams and change agents in making big change happen within their organisations and out in the world.

Their column exploring the role of coaching in addressing the biggest issues of our times received Coaching at Work magazine’s award for Best Thought Leadership. Their Legacy Thinking work, as part of a book edited by Liz Hall, is published by Kogan Page.

Alister has been making big change happen for over 30 years, playing a key role in achieving World Park protection status for Antarctica in 1991, being a founder of a small group who persuaded the UK's third largest pension fund to adopt a responsible investment policy in 1999, and helping experts to influence policy on a range of topics from GM food to energy policy and climate change. Since 2000 his work has been about supporting teams and leaders who are making big change happen. In his spare time, he is Chair of a community solar farm initiative in Sussex, UK.

Alister's perspective has been deeply affected by the death of his wife at the age of 50 after a long journey with cancer. This has reinforced Alister's love of life, his focus on the importance of balance and wellbeing whilst on life's journey, and his experience and conviction that when making big change happen, we need a conscious strategy for our own personal resilience.

About this book, co-author Neil Scotton and he say: 'We wrote this book for a number of reasons. One – we found that there are certain ideas, stories and questions that consistently help the leaders of big change we are working with. Two – we want to share these with the world. Three – we wanted to do it in a way that recognises that people leading big change are busy. Four – we notice that people leading big change often love to learn, but don’t like to be taught."