Dr Charlotte von Bülow

Charlotte is Founder and Director of Crossfields Europa and Luna Associates, and Senior Lecturer in Leadership at University of the West of England.

I have spent the last 20 years working in the private sector as an educator, consultant, coach, CEO and governor. In 2007, I founded Crossfields Institute, a UK educational charity, and developed the organisation to become an Ofqual regulated awarding organisation, a consultancy and a higher education institute. I completed my doctorate at the Bristol Business School (Faculty of Business and Law, UWE) where I now work as a Senior Lecturer in Leadership.

Over the last decade, I have taught management and leadership in universities, schools, colleges, communities and organisations internationally. I have developed particular tools in the subjects of personal and professional practice, educational action research, reflective and reflexive practice and qualitative research methods. I also offer coaching in meetings facilitation, delegation and contemplative inquiry.

I have worked as a consultant and executive leadership coach for over a decade and continue to support the professional and personal growth and development of leaders and change makers.

My current research focuses on leadership as a way of being, inclusive and distributed leadership, succession building, the ethics of attention, working with uncertainty, Negative Capability and innovation in teaching and learning. I am committed to the co-creation of health in the workplace through the promotion of conscious role modelling and ethical attentional practice.

Dr Fergus Anderson

Fergus is the Director of Education at Crossfields Europa and Co-Director of Luna Associates.

My main area of work over the past ten years has been in adult education. Over this time I have designed and developed a number of post-graduate level courses mostly for Crossfields Institute in the UK and now for Crossfields Europa.

Since 2020 I have been based mainly in Denmark where my main work has been to develop and coordinate Applied Research Methods in Psychotherapeutic Practice, a suit of modules for trainee psychotherapists to learn about practitioner-led research. I am also the co-director of Crossfields Europa and carry joint responsibility for steering and developing the organisation. I have a BSc, an MA and a Doctorate. In my doctoral research, which I completed in 2018, I used phenomenological and first-person methods to investigate the experience of thinking (see the research page). My MA was in Educational Action Research.

Following the discovery of a serious health challenge in 2020, my interests have shifted and I am now deeply engaged in the question of health - what is health in the deeper sense and what is illness? - to put it rather broadly. This is an ongoing inquiry, and I am currently researching this subject in various ways (see the research page). I am now also a practicing artist and musician, having taken these activities up again recently.

I have had a very non-linear professional pathway and have had four previous careers: A started as a musician then trained and worked as a violin-maker and then trained and worked as a filmmaker. Finally I did a Masters and Doctorate and became an academic and adult educator. And now I am just following my nose, without any particular idea of what I am. Long may it continue.