Leading Through Uncertainty: Lessons from MLK Jr.

You’re at a pivotal point. You can feel it. The leadership you were taught—the binaries of strong versus weak, decisive versus indecisive, having answers versus admitting doubt—no longer feels true. If you’re questioning what leadership actually means, you’re not lost. You’re ready. We live in an age that will not sit still. The ground constantly […]

Presencing Community

The adaptive challenge of our time We face what Eric Martin would call a profound adaptive challenge: how to create meaningful change in a world that has been fractured by centuries of individualistic thinking. This isn’t a technical problem with a known solution—it’s an adaptive challenge that requires us to examine our deepest assumptions about […]

Leveraging Innovative Partnerships for Systems Change

From Dialogue to Action One of the questions directed at me during a recent United Nations panel discussion was, “What have you learned from your leadership journey so far?”. If you’ve been around me long enough, you can guess what my response was – that no single institution or sector or charismatic leader can meet […]

In Community

Bridging Humanity and Leadership Leadership is not merely about strategy, authority or efficiency, it’s about humanity. In a world increasingly defined by division, polarization and transactional interactions, we need a leadership philosophy that reconnects us. Ubuntu, an African philosophy of shared humanity, offers a profound foundation. When combined with Adaptive Leadership: a framework designed for […]