Culture in business | Human growth | Leadership

Reclaim Your Agency: The Inner Leadership Reset + Journaling Guide

Dear reader, I have found that most, if not all, the issues I’ve encountered in coaching over the years have to do with what I call reclaiming agency. By that I mean the degree of agency we believe we have over the circumstances playing out in our lives and

Two Instruments for Understanding the Transformation of Feelings

Dear reader, In my last article I promised to share more about the methodology I’ve developed and used with clients over the years. So in this article I’m going to explore a couple of  instruments or frameworks I made so you can have a taste for what capability

Why Most Culture Change Efforts in Organizations Fail

Hello dear reader,  I’ve been offline lately helping a business with production and marketing strategies, and its been a while since I last had time to write a thoughtful article to share. While I’ve been away, I’ve also been thinking a great deal about methodology — specifically related

Some practical advice for social healing and renewal

I wrote in my last article that we need to think in terms of healing when it comes to social renewal. Today I want to take a look at what social healing could entail.  As usual, I tackle a topic that is far too big for one small article and

Why we need to look through the lens of healing and regeneration

A very happy new year to you!  2025 is already shaping up to be another interesting and pivotal year for our world. As we continue our collective journey into the New, here’s what I’d like to propose we all prioritize this year. Everything that we do, individually and

A First Principle of Leadership: the Primacy of the Inner Life

I wrote last time about the one thing we miss about culture, and now I want to introduce for your consideration a “first principle” — another one thing I believe tends to get missed. And that is, your inner life — your soul as the sum total of your thoughts, feelings, and

What we miss about culture, and how to fix it

“There is one thing in this world you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else and not this, there's nothing to worry about, but if you remember everything else and forget this, then you will have done nothing in your life”. — Rumi What is generally

How to orient toward a new paradigm - a couple of frameworks

Our recent elections here in America have revealed that social unrest is on the rise and, it seems, also in many countries in the west. We are seeing a battle waging between the old world with its increasingly controlling behaviors to maintain its relevance, and a populace who struggle under

Why is a healthy culture so difficult to build at work?

Culture in an organization is an invisible, intangible and qualitative “field” that, while it can be measured and observed, is really to be found in the quality of the inner life of people and in the spaces between people. It’s difficult to control or manage this, as people are