Writings
Permission to Disrupt with Ensemble Leadership
Ensemble leaders grant permission to both themselves and others to disrupt the status quo in service of a powerful shared purpose.
Unleash a Culture of Flowing Feedback
Fostering a culture of learning and feedback is one of the most powerful moves you can make for your long-term vision.
How to Sprout Novel & Unexpected Ideas
Co-creation arises when we invest time to create emergent space together so that novel and unexpected ideas can sprout from a shared sense of belonging and deep care for the world.
What’s the ROI of belonging and trust?
How can you quantify the feeling of aliveness and creativity that emerges out of trusting, purposeful relationships?
Portals of Possibility
Taking opportunities for small interventions gives each and every one of us the power to shift the systems we participate in.
Running hard, but not going anywhere?
When all the things calling for your attention get overwhelming, you can turn to your purpose (and set purposeful boundaries) to help you stay focused on what matters most.
Do this to laugh and make memories at your next gathering…
This free resource is one of my most cherished movement exercises. There’s nothing quite like it for quickly invoking a sense of playful presence, laughter, and belonging.
An Invitation to Shapeshift
Ensemble leadership is a doorway into cultivating the human capacity most needed in these times: to change, with humility, in response to a changing world.
Share the Mic!
Want to include all voices and surface the collective wisdom of your team? Use this simple agreement…
There’s an Antidote for That
What if one of artists’ greatest contributions to society isn’t solely the art they produce, but the social technology of how they produce it?
Am I Doing This Right?
When I lead trainings, I sometimes get to know the participants by asking them: What’s your greatest challenge as a leader right now?
Spread Out Like Polka Dots
Why does finding ways to be present and playful matter so much right now? And why is present and playful such a rare and valuable state, especially at work?
Tips for Ensemble Leaders on Returning to the Office
As your team transitions back towards in-person work, the time is ripe for building a purpose-driven ensemble.
3 Traits of Ensemble Whisperers
Ensembles create the conditions for our most empowered, most creative selves to come forward and come together into collaborative bodies to reinvent our world.
7 Signs That Hierarchy is Holding Back Your Changework
When you’re engaged in the messy, non-linear work of systems change, the very structure of your team and organization is a critical key that can either unlock radical change or keep you mired in the status quo.
Ensemble Lessons From Ted Lasso
Sometimes all you need is a little reminder to trust yourself… like an example of someone else courageously leading from the heart.
The Beating Heart of Every Team
How to cultivate relationships that can weather the emotional rodeo of systems changework.
What Are The Roots Of Your Deep “Why?”
It wasn’t until I grew my own team and we faced some big questions together that I started to remember my deepest “why.”