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Insights from a collective of change-makers
Discover practical advice to enhance both internal operations and external impact. Crafted with team leaders in mind, our content draws from real-world experiences to guide organisations at every stage of their journey.
Choosing Hope: On Authenticity, Courage, and What We Owe Each Other Right Now
What I am seeing now feels different. Not in its scale — the sector has faced serious moments before — but in its texture. The pressure is coming from multiple directions at once and targeting something more fundamental than funding or political will. It is targeting the language itself.
The terms that the rights-based sector spent decades building into the shared vocabulary of accountability are being actively removed from the frameworks that gave them force.
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Apr 36 min read
From Blue Sky to Solid Ground: How to Build Organisations That Are Both Structured and Alive
There is a particular kind of strategic planning session I have sat in many times. The facilitator is skilled. The wall is covered in sticky notes. The energy is real. The session ends with genuine excitement. And then, about six months later, the plan is quietly on a shelf and the organisation is operating almost exactly as it was before.
This is not a failure of ambition. It is a structural problem.
Jan 13
The Hardest Question: Why Does Your Organisation Exist?
There is a question I ask early in almost every organisational engagement. It is deceptively simple: why does your organisation exist? Not what it does. Not what impact it is trying to create. Why, at the most fundamental level, does this particular organisation need to be the one doing this work, in this way, with these people?
Most leadership teams find this much harder than they expected.
Sep 17, 2025
What Nature Knows About Organisations
Nature does not build to a template. Each ecosystem finds its own form — shaped by its particular environment, its available resources, the pressures it faces, and the relationships between the organisms that make it up. The result, in each case, is something that works: that adapts, that recovers, that sustains itself across time.
Organisations rarely do this.
Oct 17, 2024
What Does Your Organisation Stand For?
There is a question that sits underneath almost every organisational challenge I have been called in to help with. It is not about communications strategy or brand positioning. It is more fundamental than that: does everyone in this organisation actually agree on what it is for?
The answer, more often than people expect, is no. And when you press on the specifics, the cracks appear.
Apr 30, 2024
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