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The traditional leadership hierarchy isn’t dead—but it needs a redesign. Here’s how forward-thinking organizations are integrating structured leadership levels with distributed leadership approaches to create adaptable, high-performing systems. The Leadership Integration Challenge In today’s business environment, organizations face a fundamental tension. Traditional hierarchical leadership models emphasize clear progression through distinct levels, while approaches like holacracy […]

In today’s rapidly evolving business environment, leaders face unprecedented challenges: navigating digital transformation, managing remote and hybrid workforces, responding to social and environmental pressures, and adapting to increasingly complex global dynamics. The field of leadership studies has responded with a proliferation of theories and frameworks, each attempting to address these modern complexities. The challenge for

It’s been exciting to see some colleagues attend the recent Harvard Kennedy School adaptive leadership program(1) and share their experiences of what is a unique and challenging professional development experience. This time ten years ago, I had just returned from Boston with my own experiences from doing the work of provocative leadership learning. Eight days

This is the beginning of a blog series on leadership and leadership development. It may branch off into other related topics like strategy, organisation, innovation and change (these are the domains that my consulting, teaching and research interests stretch across). It will likely take detours into some more personal and provocative topics like, why do

For teams to achieve their potential requires work in several areas: ⦁ Working on the team itself – What is our collective work? How are we going with it?⦁ Individuals working on themselves – What is my contribution in the team? What are my strengths and development areas? What do others need from me?⦁ Developing

In 2010 an exciting moment for me was the publication of my masters research paper on group coaching, titled, From GROW to GROUP, in Coaching An International Journal of Theory Research and Practice. I detailed the benefits of coaching in a group (vs. individual) setting and proposed a new group coaching model. Ten years later I was