The current challenges we face – the climate crisis, mental health, inequality – demand a lot from leaders.
Sapling Leadership Studio was created to inquire into and practice how to lead with these complex, systemic issues in mind.
Our world needs good stories and strong communities more than ever before. We help leaders develop and embody their strategy as a story that connects and moves their community to action.
Teams can work with complexity in a way that individuals just can’t, but only if they are connected and working together on the task at hand.
We help teams develop the trust that is needed to sit in ambiguity and work with complexity.
Our Purpose
Why do some people, groups and communities take up their authority and act on what they believe in and others don’t?
Our purpose at Sapling is to continuously study how leadership and followership emerges in relation to the big systemic challenges we face as a society; climate change, inequality and mental health.
Meet our team
Too often we see the problem as the person.
A few years ago I worked in an organisation where two key members of the senior executive team “wouldn’t talk” to each other. It seems cr...
Feb 22, 2024 / Read More
The forgotten question of strategic narrative: Who are we becoming?
A good enough strategy will have some basic elements.
Feb 19, 2024 / Read More
If not me then who? The opportunity to lead change is now.
About a year ago, I interviewed half a dozen independent federal candidates to the Australia parliament (most of them women) that were un...
Feb 13, 2024 / Read More
We were changing corporate history, but we were stuck.
In the early 2010s I worked on what our boss referred to at the time as the “biggest transformation of an Australian corporation.” The tr...
Feb 05, 2024 / Read More
Leading in an (Art)ificial World
It’s sometimes hard to find words when we encounter something new and unfamiliar. It takes work to give name to an experience if it doesn...
Aug 10, 2022 / Read More
When my dream job became virtual
Over the last decade I have been redesigning my life to do work that is meaningful to me. I did it by experiment. I tried many things, an...
Apr 18, 2020 / Read More
Making to think — a strategy style for the changing times.
Strategy is sometimes equated with something conceptual and separate to action. The language that describes it is full of cerebral words ...
Nov 26, 2015 / Read More
Strategic change is always personal
“What business are we actually in?” — I heard the CEO of a large manufacturing company ask this question of his team in the middle of a w...
Oct 14, 2015 / Read More