what is emergent leadership?

Emergent Leadership acknowledges that in a rapidly evolving world, true leadership is increasingly about our ability to navigate the fluidity of change, our relationship to it, to ourselves, to each other and to the world around us.

Navigating this complexity is made possible by taking a relational approach by building strong relationships between leaders and their teams. And considering the entire system as well as it’s parts when solutions-finding.

a relational approach grounded in experience

I’ve combined more than 20 years in big corporate as a creative tech leader and innovator, with 7 years’ experience as an entrepreneur and professional certified relationships coach, to enable me to powerfully and effectively guide forward-thinking leaders to tap into their own inner wisdom and lead teams and organisations from within.

Offerings

Leadership Coaching

When you learn the skills and tools to develop new ways of seeing and being you can lead your teams or organization through complexity to clarity. 

I believe that personal evolution and collective generative growth go hand-in-hand. When you feel fulfilled and nourished as much as you are challenged and excited by the work that you do, the place and people that you do it with benefit.

By enabling and elevating leaders like you to see, feel, understand and hold multiple viewpoints – after first understanding your own – you are better able to  connect with your team members and communicate more easily and naturally, especially when holding difficult conversations. 

Leadership that includes body-based awareness as well as emotional intelligence and of course, mental acuity legerages the full potential of the leader.

They show up fully present, engaged and empowered – and in turn, empower those they work with in integrity.

This is leading from the inside out.

Let’s start a conversation about how I might support you.

Strategic Facilitation

As a facilitator, I work with you to transform groups into robust, innovative teams ready to solve complex challenges through open collaboration and effective easy communication.

Sometimes I use design thinking and human-centered design methodologies to support co-creative ways of problem solving. Other times I deploy the tools and skills of relationship building including establishing safety and trust within the team and between team members. 

Hands-on workshop-like environments are sometimes created to help participants through all phases of team building and solutioning, from framing the challenge to brainstorming solutions to defining an action plan, accountability and support to ensure follow through. Other times I support you and your team in meetings that are already planned, taking the pressure of running the process out of your hands. 

Whether we move through near-term or longer-term challenges together, a spirit of exploration and possibility is coupled with strategic, informed action to get to a clear end goal. 

Request a case study of my work.

Workshops + Speaking

Dive deep into one or more areas of leadership development, I’ll listen carefully to the specific challenges that you and your teams or organization face and tailor my message to reach them powerfully and effectively.

I’m relatable and have a natural ability to connect with people. My warmth is genuine – those who experience me feel this and tell me so. 

I am as much about practical application through tools and skills building as I am about big ideas – together they change lives. Your audience will leave with simple, effective ways to take immediate action on that ‘ah ha’ moment. 

I’ve been told that I’m easy and fun to work with – and I’ll make your team and audience feel incredible.

My positivity and energy are infectious, my delivery and presentation conversational and intentionally engaging whether your group is a few or many. 

And my simple message is life-changing. 

Here are a few of the topics I explore: 

• Embodied leadership – what is it, how do you do it, and why bother? 

• The neuroscience of leading change – how your nervous system affects your leadership style

• Building capacity to be with complexity in a constantly changing business world

• The Wise Leader – Leverage your full human capacity to guide wisely  

• Boundaries at work – How to reclaim your life and lead more effectively

• Beyond stuck – How to move into flow when you ebb and feel inspired again

• Purpose in the workplace – What’s yours and how to find it if you don’t know it

• What to do when you have a crush on your colleague – erotic transference and countertransference at work

Hire me to speak with your team or organisation.

Retreats – Learning and Develpment

When you step out of your usual context together with other leaders from your team or organization, you cross a threshold into possibility. 

Well-designed, intentionally crafted retreats in inspiring environments stimulate fresh thinking, foster closer connection to your team, and empower you to lead with greater confidence and effectiveness.

I’ll work closely with you to leverage the power of a fully immersive experience outside of the day-to-day work environment to support your team or organisation to :

• Gain clarity and align on strategic mission

• Set goals and create support systems to make those goals happen

• Build a more healthy team culture

• Inspire innovation and creative thinking

• Increase communication and

• Develop skills like navigating conflict and facilitating collaboration, and

• To refresh the energy of leaders and the team

Restorative wellbeing experiences combined with leadership development expands the capacity of the team as a whole and each of its members individually so that they not only perform better, but also feel fulfilled by the work they do and are nourished by the culture that they get to create.

Let’s connect on how your team can benefit from being on retreat.

Let’s connect