Rational Intuition – Strategic Thinking & Gut Instinct for Successful Leadership

Professor Todd Landman, Director of the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution.

Rational Intuition combines Professor Landman’s academic interests, experiences from around the world and insights into how successful people make good decisions. In blending the notions of homo economicus from modern economics and unconscious competence from learning theory the lecture maps out an approach to decision making suitable for today’s complex and rapidly changing business environment. Its main insights are reinforced through unusual and uncanny demonstrations that draw in his work as a professional entertainer and Associate of the Inner Magic Circle (AIMC with Silver Star). The lecture should be of interest to leaders in business, education and the arts.

Why would you want to attend this talk?

The current economic crisis raises a number of questions about the kinds of models we use for decision making. Rational intuition shows you how to think beyond cost-benefit analysis and draw on your own sense of ‘gut instinct’ and ‘expert knowledge’ to arrive at decisions that may be more appropriate for the challenges you may be currently facing. Interactive, informative, grounded in real world examples and punctuated inexplicable demonstrations, this is a talk you will simply not want to miss!

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Professor Todd Landman

Professor Todd Landman is Director of the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution at the University of Essex. He has been at Essex since 1993 in the Department of Government and before being appointed Director of the Institute, he served as the Deputy Director (1999-2003) and Co-Director (2003-2005) of the Human Rights Centre and Director (2007-2010) of the Centre for Democratic Governance.

Publications, professional affiliations and international consultancy

Professor Landman is a political scientist and author of Protecting Human Rights (Georgetown 2005), Studying Human Rights (Routledge 2006), and Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics (Routledge 2000, 2003, 2008); co-author of Measuring Human Rights (Routledge 2009), Assessing the Quality of Democracy (International IDEA 2008); Governing Latin America (2003), and Citizenship Rights and Social Movements (Oxford 1997, 2000); editor of Human Rights Volumes I-IV (Sage 2009), and co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics (Sage 2009) and Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis (Cambridge 2011).

He is former President (2009-2010), Vice-President (2008-2009), Vice President-Elect and Programme Chair (2007-2008), and Treasurer (2002-2005) of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. He has numerous articles published in International Studies Quarterly, The British Journal of Political Science, Human Rights Quarterly, Democratization, Political Studies, The Journal of Human Rights, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Electoral Studies, Human Rights and Human Welfare, Public Law and The California Western International Law Journal.

In addition to these academic activities, Professor Landman has carried out numerous projects on the analysis and synthesis of data and complex governmental information, preparation of reports, and the development of assessment and measurement frameworks for significant inter-governmental organisations, governments, and non-governmental organisations. These include the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA),the UK Department for International Development (DFID), The Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), The Danish Foreign Ministry, The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), The European Commission, The Inter-Parliamentary Union, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, International Capacity Building (InWent), Minority Rights Group International, The International Council for Human Rights Policy, Amnesty International, and the World Organisation Against Torture.