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QuoLux™ is a world-leading digital learning, blended learning and in-person leadership development company, with a purpose to #InspireBelief within leaders at all levels in organisations.
Good Dividends was created by Professor Steve Kempster.
QuoLux™ has worked with Steve to integrate Good Dividends into a number of in-person programmes and co-created a range of supporting digital tools.
Prof Steve Kempster
Professor Steve Kempster is Emeritus Professor of Leadership Learning and Development at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS). Steve first qualified as a chartered surveyor and founded his own surveying practice specialising in residential and commercial development. His second career commenced with a position at Lancaster University to help form the entrepreneurship group in the Management School.
He has published broadly on leadership learning, leadership of purpose and responsible leadership with 5 books, and many articles and chapters. Steve leads the Good Dividends project (www.gooddividends.com) – formed from an interdisciplinary group of academics drawn from 5 universities in Europe and Australasia – with the objective of enabling business leaders to develop their business models towards becoming regenerative and realising good growth. The ideas of the project were published in his book ‘Good Dividends: Responsible leadership of business purpose’.
Recently, Steve has been the Director of the Lancaster University Made Smarter and Evolve Digital programmes linking digitalisation with regenerative outcomes – funded by the UK Government. He is currently co-director of the Lancaster University ‘Good Growth’ Programme – focused on reframing growth towards regenerative outcomes and building towards a wellbeing economy. Steve is a member of the Anchor Organisations Procurement Group for the Morecambe Bay area helping to shape policy and intervention to build community wealth.
Dr Stewart Barnes
Dr Stewart Barnes is founder and CEO of QuoLux which is a B Corp Certified, privately owned company which specialises in leadership and strategic development working closely with small-medium businesses (SMBs) to improve their productivity, profitability and develop their purpose.
Stewart has over thirty years’ experience of leading, growing and developing a variety of private businesses in different markets in different countries transforming organisations and their performance. Stewart has worked with Steve for a decade integrating Good Dividends into the QuoLux LEAD™, GOLD™, GAIN™ and LEADlight in-person programmes for owner-managers of SMBs. Stewart has worked with his fellow directors, Rachael Ramos and Jo Draper, and Simon Townsend to create an extensive range of online courses, How-To resources and digital tools for organisations across the globe. He is a Board director and trusted advisor to a number of SMBs.
Stewart has a PhD on reflection and learning of SMB owner-managers from the University of Gloucestershire where he is a Visiting Fellow and has an MBA with Distinction from Lancaster University Management School. Stewart has many publications on his key areas of interest – leadership, transformational change, employee engagement, innovation and business planning.
