{"id":12602,"date":"2021-06-28T16:20:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T12:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=12602"},"modified":"2021-06-28T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T12:22:23","slug":"siobhan-riordan-the-social-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2021\/06\/28\/siobhan-riordan-the-social-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"Siobhan Riordan \u2013 The Social Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is not often that one gets to meet a social entrepreneur. I was fortunate to have an engaging conversation on Zoom with Siobhan<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the early age of 17, Siobhan decided that she would stay single and focused on pursuing her dream of creating a niche for herself in a path less travelled. And that she has done admirably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the quintessential independent woman, she has harnessed every opportunity that has come her way, leading to a rich tapestry of experience and expertise.\u00a0 She carries a strong sense of being on a Soul\u2019s Journey, here to learn and develop.\u00a0 This has led her into innovation in social enterprise, leadership, policing and higher education.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siobhan shared the metaphor of coral, to describe her passion for collaboration across hierarchies, organisations and systems.\u00a0 Each piece of coral is fragile and easily breaks, but when connected together with other pieces of coral, it becomes strong and sustainable.\u00a0 Her work is all about creating spaces for people to connect and collaborate through partnership, to create stronger and more robust systems.\u00a0 This way of working has culminated in a unique model of training she describes as Learning Communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a decade she took this way of learning out into police services across the UK where staff and managers transcended hierarchy to develop new ways of policing.\u00a0 She took the Learning Community modality into the higher education sector, designing new undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in social enterprise and leadership.\u00a0 She created the first qualification in Women Building Peace, funded by the European Commission.\u00a0 She introduced the Learning Community as a new way of working to the largest organisation tackling sight-loss in the UK \u2013 Guide Dogs.\u00a0 This proved pivotal during lockdown as the charity was forced to switch to online engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combine together these decades of experience, and Siobhan is now one of the leading experts of the Learning Community model in the UK.\u00a0 As Covid has given new meaning to the online space she has a new spirit of inquiry \u2013 how do you develop deep and meaningful participation in the virtual space?\u00a0 This led her to establish Learning Communities Network and enter a new phase of expansion in her repertoire, which is soon to be joined by Soul<\/strong>utions, a modality that works with intuition\u2019s role in life and leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During my conversation with Siobhan, I was struck by her admiration for the Persian poet and esoteric Sufi \u2013 Rumi, who also happens to be my favorite poet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While discussing the fallout of Covid and how organisations need to be more emphatic to employees returning to the office, she quoted Rumi \u2013 \u201cOut beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there\u2019s a field; I\u2019ll meet you there\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I agree 100%!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Penned by Sharad Agarwal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is not often that one gets to meet a social entrepreneur. I was fortunate to have an engaging conversation on Zoom with Siobhan last week. At the early age of 17, Siobhan decided that she would stay single and focused on pursuing her dream of creating a niche for herself in a path less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12607,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602\/revisions\/12607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}