We help leaders grow the capacity to contend with uncertainty & complexity.
Sapling Studio was created to provide a space to inquire and study how to lead and follow well in complex and uncertain times.
Connect strategy & leadership
Contending with uncertainty and complexity requires good leadership and strategy, and for that we need to go to basic principles: Trust and meaning.
These are not found in documents or structures, but rather in relationships that help us develop and honour our intent.
We are not a business school or a consultancy.
We are a studio.
We believe that leadership can be learned (and studied), but it cannot be taught theoretically or outsourced.
The most effective way to learn about leadership is to practice leading and following in groups, and reflect together to make sense of these experiences. Which is not easy when performance matters and time is a constraint.
That’s why we created a leadership studio. A space and an innovative approach in which one can observe and participate in leadership and followership in order to learn and transform.
Articles & Case Studies
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
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
Evolving dinosaurs in the age of the unicorn
Bammm. The meteor hits the earth. A few dinosaurs are killed outright. Those that avoided death by meteor happily go back to grazing or h...
Nov 10, 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
Let’s make strategies that move us
It was 9 am Monday morning and I settled in the back of a strategy roadshow clutching my coffee. The CEO of the organisation was getting ...
Oct 13, 2015 / Read More