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The Leader Who Steps Back
There is a version of leadership that most of us were taught to admire: the person who walks into the room and commands it. Who names the agenda, holds the floor, drives the decision. Bold. Visible. Loud enough to be unmistakable.
And then...
What Happens After You Say "I Can't Find the Point of This Anymore"
This is the kind of conversation that makes you feel less alone.
I Can't Find the Point of This Anymore.
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There is a sentence I keep hearing in coaching sessions, training rooms, consulting gigs. I hear it over dinner with friends, in informal...
The Example Is the Argument
This year, I started a series of ten interviews with Design Mavericks community members, leaders and practitioners who are doing the work, inside real organisations, with all the friction that entails. Each conversation focuses on a theme t...
You are the hero.
Inspired by Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces and the documentary Finding Joe (dir. Patrick Takaya Solomon, 2011).
There is a story from Thailand I want to start with.
Centuries ago, a monastery kept a large statue o...
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Author of the book Design Leadership Chronicles. Design leadership coach and advisor on design-led organisational transformation.
Leadership Coach, Designer, Author, Educator
Designer of strategic decisions, product experiences, and business growth. Led by good research.
I bring 30+ years of expertise across strategy, design, psychology, tech, and finance, helping organisations turn complexity into clarity. Passionate about leveraging AI and human-centred design to create scalable solutions for the future.
Design is not neutral. It has the power to reinforce systems or question them. I write from a position of design dissidence: exploring what happens when design stops asking for permission and acts as a force of care, awareness, and responsibility.
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