Some years ago, I was working with a coaching/OD practice supervisor. She was over 70, and had a fabulously eclectic life and career that included being a mother, a nun and an academic. She taught me a lot. But one thing in particular sticks. ‘Never…
What creates loving cultures in our organisations? What enables the conditions for love to thrive? In my world of leadership development – and looking to develop our capacity to love – this post explores what the idea of eldership might offer us. Whether we leaders…
Leading from Love: putting love at the heart of your leadership A bold and imaginative programme exploring love in the context of your leadership As we go about the business of creating and encouraging change, what might happen if we put love at the heart…
I’ve been doing a fair bit of coaching with people on their ‘inner critic’ recently. That work has prompted me to write this post and talk about self love. An interesting term to explore because when I began writing about love in organisations most people…
In my sessions with groups exploring love and leadership, I often bring us away from discussions about care and empathy and compassion to a different area all together. I bring us to a conversation about anger and its relationship with love, and with leadership. Largely,…
An emerging thread of my research with leaders about love and the role it could and should play in our organisations is what our own intimate connection is with love. Our own personal social history of love. Where did we learn about love? What have…
What if we designed for love? A word I’ve been using to describe how I’m feeling these days is suspension. I’m in a holding pattern. And I am mostly dealing with the day to day to day building blocks of exercising, making soup, working and…
On Friday 24 April, I ran a session at the ODN Europe mini conference (it was cracking day…) about love and the role it could and should play in Organisation Development. The theme of the conference was ‘disruption’ and I wanted to say something about…
To ‘hold space’. It’s a phrase that comes from the therapeutic world and it’s never felt more important than now. It tends to mean: • Protecting a chunk of time to pay someone full attention • The ability to listen without judgement • Allowing people…
