A Tent on the Beach, a Peg in the Ground: Practising Solidarity in Portobello

I offer talks and workshops on the Porty Pals of Palestine twinning journey, using craftivism, story, and shared making. Through films, conversation, and spiritual tent‑peg making, audiences explore ethical leadership, cross‑cultural governance, and how communities move from grief to sustained, peaceful action together with dignity, care, and long‑term solidarity.

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Coaching a senior leadership team to lead systemic change

In my experience, there is a significant difference between leading an organisation and leading a leadership team well. This case study shows how deep, system‑psychodynamic team coaching enabled a senior leadership team to work with complexity, share authority, reduce isolation, and lead ambitious cultural and strategic change with greater integrity and impact.

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Inviting Your Tiger to Tea - When Ethics Required Action (hero series Part 2)

This article is part of my ongoing series about heroes—not the kind celebrated for titles or platforms, but those whose ethical courage shows up when systems fail.

It follows my earlier piece about David Turner, and continues my reflection on what it really means to live—and lead—according to the Principles of Public Life: integrity, accountability, openness, respect, and stewardship.

This piece centres on Tricia, a tireless campaigner, professional, and friend, whose life has repeatedly demonstrated that ethics are not abstract—they are practiced, often quietly, often at personal cost.

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Hybrid Working Patterns - How to Make the Best of Both Worlds

Hybrid meetings are still being done badly — not because the technology isn’t there, but because the imagination hasn’t caught up. This article argues that truly inclusive hybrid meetings, designed to work for disabled colleagues and remote participants, are not a compromise but a route to better leadership, better decisions, and better use of everyone’s intelligence.

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Culture Change Tools - Immunity Mapping and Hybrid Working

Hybrid Working is a game changer for culture change in the future of workplaces. This article explains a really useful tool for successful facilitation of deeply difficult issues involving culture change. It offers a way of ‘re-planning your strategy’ and ‘analysing how things go off piste’,  A healthy learning culture can be built using this tool.

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Coaching a Scottish Organisation into Being Strategic

In my experience there’s a big difference between having a strategy and actually ‘being strategic’. This case case study shows how I’ve helped an organisation make that difference, with the help of my Time & Energy Auditing tools.

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Leading Through Change - an overview

Are you leading change well? In these changing times it can be tricky to keep perspective on all the changing factors affecting our work. In this short article i explain the core of change management. This is a good building block for then more complex courses and supervision work i do about leading from the emerging future.

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Ethics in the Boardroom - A Case Study

A case study of the kind of ethical conversations that need to happen in the boardroom of any organisation to carry out due diligence, highlighting the processes and differentiation of salaried executives and unremunerated non-executive leading to work with diversity of thinking, declaring and addressing conflicts of interest, and preventing a U-turn or embarrassing the reputation of the organisation.

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