We are delighted to announce this year's Centre for Systems Studies Annual Mike Jackson Lecture guest speaker: Professor John Seddon. Come and join us in-person in Middleton Hall, University of Hull to hear Professor Seddon's thoughts on Systems thinking, regulation and public-sector productivity - there will also be an opportunity for Q&A afterwards. John is an occupational psychologist and author, specialising in the service industry. He is the managing director of Vanguard, a consultancy company he formed in 1985 and the inventor of 'The Vanguard Method', the means by which his organisation helps service leaders transform their organisations from conventional command-and-control designs to systems designs, achieving remarkable results. He won the first McKinsey/HBR Management Innovation Prize for 'Reinventing Leadership' in 2010. The Daily Telegraph described him as a "reluctant management guru". John has published seven books, most recently ' Beyond Command and Control ' which focuses on the how of effective change. Following a career developing a unique systems approach to the design and management of service organisations, John argues that our current method of regulation is an impediment to productivity and economic growth. His is not an argument for less regulation, it is an argument for a better method, one that dissolves the many problems created by the current method. If you are unable to join us in-person, there is the option to attend online. Please select this option when registering and a teams link will be forwarded to you nearer the time.