Leadership as we current understand it is fundamentally flawed. Why? Because leadership as it is most often demonstrated by people brings with it a mindset of 'hero' - a leader is the person out in front creating the new pathway so that others can have an easier time of the journey ahead. Leadership as we know it breeds dependence. Leadership as we know it disempowers leaders.

Here is just one example to demonstrate my point.

Poor levels of employee engagement in many organisations

Leadership as we current understand it is fundamentally flawed. Why? Because leadership as it is most often demonstrated by people brings with it a mindset of 'hero' - a leader is the person out in front creating the new pathway so that others can have an easier time of the journey ahead. Leadership as we know it breeds dependence. Leadership as we know it disempowers.lead.

Here is just one example to demonstrate my point.

Poor levels of employee engagement in many organisations

Earlier this year I was invited by the the Leaders Institute of South Australia to facilitate an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) grounded cross-organisational Think Tank to identify and prototype 'lighthouse initiatives' for  enhancing employee and workplace wellbeing (for more information about this

A new approach to leadership is needed: A deeper ‘way of being’ as a leader.

Today’s leaders are being called into a new way of being and leading. Traditional ways of leading and managing are no longer enough; the global business and social environment is now too complex and today’s leaders are too reactive. Today’s leaders need to demonstrate more expansive, integrated and adaptive ways of leading. Purposeful Leadership underpins these attributes.

Purposeful Leadership is a quality of being-in-action.

Have you ever wondered why some change efforts – whether they are within an organisational or social context – stumble, or even fall over? Or, why some efforts to enable or implement a socially focused initiative result in the people involved is this ‘good work’ clashing in ways that jeopardise the very intention of the initiative.