Nancy Kline

For nearly 40 years, author and educator Nancy Kline has been seeking to answer a question: How can we help people to think for themselves, with rigour, imagination, courage and grace? The result of her quest is a Thinking Environment.

Through her work and her company Time To Think, a Thinking Environment has been established as the culture in companies and organisations in more than twenty countries worldwide, including the UK, US, Canada, South Africa, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, Australia, Brazil, India, and Singapore.

Nancy Kline is a guest lecturer at Henley Business School, and has contributed to leadership development at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. She also coaches business leaders and teaches coaches how to generate a Thinking Environment in their coaching. Her books have become key elements in many coaching development programmes. Her on-going research continues to inform and refine our understanding of how to create Thinking Environments in the world.

Her books on the Thinking Environment have sold over 100,000 copies worldwide: the 26-year-old best seller Time To Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind; More Time To Think: The Power of Independent Thinking; and The Promise That Changes Everything: I Won’t Interrupt You.

Nancy is a warm and inspiring human being with a razor-sharp mind and an exquisitely honed ability to give her full attention to ignite the thinking of others. While she always stays true to her convictions, she invariably treats her fellow human beings with the greatest respect and interest. She never interrupts except in emergencies (and they don’t seem to happen to her).
Nancy, who is from the US, has lived in the UK for many years because her husband, Christopher Spence, is English.

Audio and video clips from interviews and lectures with Nancy Kline can be found here.