Lessons in Failing Well: Catherine Hasted

Thu Feb 19 2026 at 05:00 pm to 06:30 pm UTC+00:00

Garden Quad Auditorium, St John's College | Oxford

St John's College
Publisher/HostSt John's College
Lessons in Failing Well: Catherine Hasted
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St John's welcomes Dr Catherine Hasted, Deputy Director of the Skoll Centre at Saïd Business School, for an exploration of 'failing well'.
About this Event

From I to We: Lessons in Failing Well

Behind most stories of impact sit failures that are rarely discussed. In this session, Catherine Hasted reflects on failures from her own career and from the people and organisations she has worked with, examining how progress actually happens when problems cannot be solved by individuals alone. The focus is on what emerges through collaboration, not heroics, and what becomes possible when we shift from working as an I to acting as a We. Students and researchers will learn how others have used failure as a collaborative tool rather than a solitary setback.

Biography

Dr Catherine Hasted is Deputy Director of the Skoll Centre at Saïd Business School, Oxford University. With a background in innovating large-scale change, she founded ThinkLab at the University of Cambridge and later led the University’s global business partnerships. Catherine is known for her research and practice on inter-organisational change, including the development of Relational Fusion as a framework for large-scale collaboration. She completed her studies at Lancaster, Oxford and Cambridge universities, and her work has featured in the BBC, The Guardian and The Times.

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Garden Quad Auditorium, St John's College, St Giles', Oxford, United Kingdom

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