Brave Spaces The seeds of what I now call Brave Spaces were planted at Harvard Kennedy School in 2012. Attending an Adaptive Leadership programme there was an incredibly valuable and also a raw experience - both intellectually and experientially. Systemic patterns in...
Psychological Safety & Adaptive Leadership I've been reflecting on why Psychological Safety and Adaptive Leadership go hand-in-hand in my work, and why this matters now more than ever. On the surface, they seem like odd bed-fellows. One is about creating 'safe'...
Psychological Safety - Creating the conditions for people to speak up, learn and thrive High levels of psychological safety have been proven to enable people to bring their best ideas, challenge each other respectfully, and recover quickly from setbacks leading to...
Playful Experimentation, Reflection and Learning This is the final part in this series where we will explore the role of playful experimentation so we can avoid the 'authority trap' when navigating complexity. Up until this point, we have walked through the steps of:...
A Balcony Perspective - 'Seeing the system' In this, part 4 of the series, we are going to explore taking a balcony perspective. Fitting with the theme, it's time to take a step back. In part 1, we explored the risk of falling into what I call the 'authority trap'...
Curiosity and Situational Humility 64% of employers consider curiosity and lifelong learning as increasing in terms of importance. Yet, the need to 'know the answer' is so deeply engrained in us from school, from college and from work that 'not knowing' is considered...
'Setting the Stage' - Practice 1 to avoid the 'Authority Trap'. In the last blog, I spoke of 4 practices that would assist with avoiding the 'authority trap'. 'Setting the Stage' (or create a 'holding space') will be the focus of this post. This is in essence about...
What is the 'Authority Trap'? One of the biggest leadership mistakes made when navigating complexity is falling into what I call the 'Authority Trap'. This is where we diagnose an adaptive (complex) challenge as technical and then attempt to lead through the challenge...
Leading Adaptively In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, traditional leadership approaches fall short when confronting unprecedented challenges. Adaptive leadership—a framework that embraces complexity rather than simplifying it - offers a powerful...
Building your Complexity Landscape: In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, traditional approaches to leadership often fall short when facing complexity. How might you unlock new perspectives and solutions that conventional methods may miss? We have launched a...