Idea Generation Stage
1979Tom Martin
The idea of Intelligent Behaviour Analytics® (IBA) was inspired by Tom Martin. Tom was in the British Military Police during WW2 and had been on the front line with the allies as they entered Berlin in 1945.
The combination of losing family members to basic health conditions because they could not afford a doctor in the 1930’s – this was before the NHS was founded in 1948 – plus his personal experiences of the way people behaved during WW2 led Tom to ask some key questions. Firstly, Tom thought that there had to be a clearly defined reason for the bias people showed against others when they felt threatened. Secondly, Tom wondered why, throughout history, some individuals felt it necessary to identify a scapegoat as the reason to justify their objectives. So, in Tom’s world, for example, why and how Nazi ideology was successful in fabricating a story which presented the Jewish race as the cause for Germany’s difficulties in the 1930’s.
Tom maintained that
“Human beings are inconsistent. They are a mixing bowl of violence, beauty, science and faith. Everyone has a different way of looking at the world.”
Development Stage - Phase 1
1981Confucius
The Analects by the Chinese philosopher and politician Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC)
Sun Tzu
The Art of War by the Chinese general, military strategist, writer, and philosopher Sun Tzu (554 BC – 496 BC).
Marcus Aurelius
Meditations by the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180).
Niccolò Machiavelli.
The Prince by the Italian diplomat, author, philosopher and historian Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 – 1527)
Carl von Clausewitz
On War (a major work on the philosophy of war) by the Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831).
Napoleon Bonaparte
French military and political leader Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821).
- Whilst Napoleon was one of the world’s great strategists and tacticians, unlike Sun Tzu or Carl von Clausewitz, Napoleon never wrote a unified essay on his military philosophy.
- Jay Luvaas (1927 – 2009), the American military historian spent over three decades pouring through the thirty-two volumes of Napoleon’s correspondence and arranged them into seamless essays. This resulted in Napoleon on the Art of War.
Tom Martin dies
1986Albert Ellis
American psychologist and psychotherapist Albert Ellis (1913 – 2007).
Development Stage - Phase 2
1993Four Rooms
There is an Indian proverb that says
Everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but, unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.
This proverb becomes the foundation of the IBA framework.
William Moulton Marston
The 1927 book Emotions of Normal People by the American American psychologist, inventor and comic book writer William Moulton Marston (1893 – 1947).
François-André Danican Philidor
Published in 1749, Analyse du jeu des échecs (Analysis of the Game of Chess) by the French composer and chess player François-André Danican Philidor (1726 – 1795).
Claude Elwood Shannon
Programming a Computer for Playing Chess (Philosophical Magazine, Ser.7, Vol. 41, No. 314 – March 1950) by American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer Claude Elwood Shannon (1916 – 2001).
- The Shannon Number which is is a conservative lower bound of the game-tree complexity of chess of 10120 becomes a core component of the IBA framework.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
William Edwards Deming
The 1982 book Out of Crisis by the American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant William Edwards Deming (1900 – 1993).
Development Stage - Phase 3
Twenty years after the death of Tom Martin, Hillcroft House Research Hub is created with a mission to take Tom’s ideas and develop and transform them into a comprehensive framework, fusing Eastern and Western and Ancient and Modern thinking.
The Dark Triad of personality
The Dark Triad of personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy (2002) by Delroy L Paulus and Kevin M Williams Journal of Research in Personality, 36(6), 556–563 is added to the framework structure
Samuel Roland Hall
The 1921 book The Advertising Handbook by the American Advertising Counselor Samuel Roland Hall (1876 – 1942).
Milton Hyland Erickson
The Letters of Milton H. Erickson v1 by the American psychiatrist and psychologist Milton H. Erickson (1901 – 1980).
Iain McGilchrist
The 2009 book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by the psychiatrist, writer, and former Oxford literary scholar Iain McGilchrist (born 1953).
Paul Coulter - Roundabout Theory
Consultant Physician and General Practitioner Paul Coulter develops the Roundabout Theory which is embedded as a core component into the IBA framework.
Narinder Kapur
Consultant Neuropsychologist Narinder Kapur.
- Following case histories of victimised NHS staff covered in abetternhs.com, Kapur’s work The effects of going through an unfair suspension or dismissal process on various domains of well-being, depending on the severity of the impact is embedded as a core component of the IBA framework.
Introduction Stage
2016Prototype IBA Behaviour & Emotions Report
The first Prototype IBA Behaviours and Emotions Report is used by psychotherapist Ryan Marcovich. In the same year it is launched and available for one-to-one Executive and Life Coaching support.
The IBA Brand
Thirty eight years after the initial concept was developed, the IBA brand is trademarked. The product is developed as is a multi-layered unique framework designed to enhance self-understanding and understanding of others.
TES ‘Wellbeing Initiative of the Year’
Bablake Junior School take part in a Birmingham City University IBA® pilot programme. The programme is led by Deputy Head, Lorrian Holder and in 2019, the school goes on to be shortlisted in the category of ‘Wellbeing Initiative of the Year’ by the Times Educational Supplement (TES) Independent School Awards.
Birmingham City University launch first IBA MSc Module
First MSc incorporating the IBA framework is delivered to International students in the School of Nursing and Midwifery within the Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences at Birmingham City University.
Understanding and managing behaviours of self, teams and organisations (Level 7: 20 Credits)
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
A collaboration between the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences at Birmingham City University, leads to the design of a bespoke health and well-being programme by Katharine Lam for Conservatoire students. Click here to read the report
The success of the programme results in it being selected as a case study for the Healthy Conservatoires Network
COVID-19 and Online Teaching
The COVID-19 pandemic forces teaching online and a rapidly re-designed MSc Module based around bite sized teaching and activity-based videos is developed. Student feedback throughout remained at similar levels as seen when the module was taught in the classroom.
Holistic Leaders in Healthcare
Components from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Health and Wellbeing Programme are embedded within the MSc Healthcare Leadership Module to help Healthcare professionals become effective holistic leaders.
This is a significant step to show what the ‘ARTS’ brings to leadership.
Epictetus
The teachings of the Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus (55 – 135).
- As far as it is known, Epictetus did not write anything himself.
- The teachings of Epictetus were transmitted by Arrian (c. 86 – c. 160) his pupil.
- In two works: Discourses, of which four books are extant; and the Encheiridion, or Manual, a condensed aphoristic version of the main doctrines.
itse version 1
Some elements – but not all – of the IBA methodology are built into version 1 of the itse software. In Finnish itse means ‘Self or Oneself’ and in Estonian it means ‘The conscious mind’.
The itse version 1 report is incorporated into the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Health and Wellbeing Programme and the MSc Module.
The state of leadership in the health sector
The landmark independent 2022 report into health and social care leadership led by General Sir Gordon Messenger and Dame Linda Pollard is published.
The UK Government is focussed on the biggest shake-up in health and social care leadership in a generation to improve patient care.
STEM to STEAM 2022 Leadership Conference
In response to the landmark independent 2022 report into health and social care leadership led by General Sir Gordon Messenger and Dame Linda Pollard, Birmingham City University design a conference titled STEM to STEAM 2022 to review how NHS Leadership can be enhanced by drawing upon the holistic qualities that the ‘Arts’ bring to leadership provision.
STEM to STEAM 2023 Healthcare Conference
The 2023 conference is the second in the STEM to STEAM series. Building upon our 2022 conference, this event has been designed to review how NHS Organisational Culture can be enhanced by taking a holistic approach that looks at the whole person, not just their mental health needs.
Birmingham City University launch second IBA MSc Module
Birmingham City University launches second MSc Module using the IBA framework
Developing the potential of others through self-understanding and holistic coaching
itse version 3
itse version 3 software to be launched. It will offer 8 billion report variations (or whatever the global population will be at the time of launch) i.e. each user receives a personalised report which is unique to them.