Daedalus Press creates books, tools and practical thinking for people and organisations navigating change, growth and reinvention.
Books, leadership, advisory and practical frameworks
There is a problem to solve, a team to build or a change to make work.
The thinking here comes from more than thirty years in commercial leadership, 25 of them alongside the NHS. It is practical, tested and plainly explained.
What you can commission now
Interview design, scorecards and assessment, so hiring decisions rest on evidence rather than impression. Drawn from years of recruiting and developing commercial teams.
Workshops and programmes for new and experienced managers, built on management development programmes Philip has designed and delivered internationally.
An independent look at a team, region or business that is not performing as it should: what is really happening, and what to do next. Drawn from turnaround and integration work recognised through Stryker World Class Leader awards.
In development: structured leadership programmes and tools.
You are good at the job you have. You want the one above it. And you are not sure how.
A practical framework for people ready to step up, from strong individual performance into management. It helps you build the experience, network and knowledge that get you noticed, win the role and make a success of the promotion.
Being developed and tested now.
Register your interestAlso here: one-to-one coaching for career and life transitions, in development. The Inner Record, for exploring dreams and patterns. Signals, on recognising change in a working life.
Philip M. Harvey has more than thirty years of commercial experience across insurance, healthcare and medical technology, with Commercial Union (now Aviva), 3M Health Care and Stryker.
Insurance taught him risk management, profitable growth and how to run an office, along with his first experience of a merger. Across the 25 years in healthcare that followed, he worked extensively alongside the NHS in community, trust and hospital settings, including supporting more than 3,500 procedures in operating theatres.
He held senior UK roles across sales, marketing and regional leadership, led teams of more than forty people, and designed and delivered management development programmes internationally. His leadership has been recognised through multiple Stryker World Class Leader awards, including for business turnaround, integration and sustained commercial performance.
His work has included commercial strategy, organisational turnaround, recruitment and talent development, change and the integration of teams and businesses. Much of it came down to the same challenge: understanding what was really happening beneath the obvious problem, then turning that understanding into practical action.
That instinct now sits behind Daedalus Press. Philip writes, develops practical tools and works with people and organisations navigating change, growth and reinvention. He is also developing a non-executive portfolio, with a particular interest in healthcare.
A candid, often funny reflection on work, leadership and the people who shape us.
Drawing on more than thirty years of working life, Signals explores the patterns we only recognise afterwards: the assumptions worth reconsidering, the lessons experience teaches, and the small corrections that change where we end up.
At its heart is one convictionLeadership is the amplification of human potential.
In development Be notified when Signals is publishedOne email when it is published. Occasional development notes, only if you ask for them.
Understand the patterns in business. Read the signals in your own working life. Make organisations work better. Grow your performance and your career.
Act deliberately.
How do we turn insight into better leadership, decisions and performance?
Practical tools and programmes for leadership and management capability, recruitment, talent, career development, change and organisational problem solving.
Personal and career development.
What is changing around you, and what is it asking of you?
A candid, often funny reflection on more than thirty years of working life: leadership, identity, disruption, success, failure and reinvention. It is about the patterns we only recognise afterwards, and the small changes in direction that lead somewhere very different.
The Dream Intelligence System.
What can a structured look at dreams add to self-knowledge and better decisions?
A personal development tool that brings the discipline of a strategic review to dream material: recording it consistently, tracking patterns over time and testing what it suggests against waking life, decisions and performance.
Build a life around what matters.
What does a well-lived life actually look like?
A personal coaching system for developing yourself deliberately, across work, relationships, identity, purpose, health, curiosity, fulfilment and contribution.
Daedalus was both dreamer and engineer. He imagined flight, but he also understood structure, systems and craft. That tension runs through the work here.
Possibility, creativity, imagination, growth.
Structure, systems, craft, practical execution.
Reflection without action goes nowhere. Action without reflection can take us somewhere we never intended to go.
Current and developing work includes books, field guides and practical tools, leadership programmes, workshops, speaking, advisory work, coaching, essays and research.
To understand life deeply enough to turn experience into something useful, and to use it to help the people you love and the people you encounter move forward.
If something here is useful to you or your organisation, the best place to start is a conversation.
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