Learn about my approach
Leadership grows
through inquiry and practice
Structure, without formula
Leadership challenges rarely stay neatly contained. I use my Leading What Matters framework to help us find the work that matters most across six domains: Purpose, Clarity, Genius, Resourcing, Power, and Craft.
For individuals: Explore what shapes your judgment, what gives or drains energy, how you relate to power, and where you want to grow.
For organizations: Examine the collective behaviors and beliefs shaping strategy and growth.
Purpose
What is my contribution?
Purpose is knowing what you’re working toward, and why. It becomes especially important when priorities compete, responsibility grows, or a path that once made sense feels less certain.
We might explore
- What matters most now
- Where values and daily choices diverge
- What you will and won’t sacrifice
- How you define success in this season
Clarity
What is shaping my judgment?
Clarity is understanding what is shaping your judgment, and deciding what deserves your attention, trust, and engagement.
We might explore
- Using feedback as information, not instruction
- Recognizing patterns such as self-criticism, perfectionism, avoidance, or endless analysis
- Navigating conflict, gossip, and other unhealthy organizational dynamics
- Interpreting praise, criticism, blame, and stakeholder reactions
- Deciding where your attention and influence belong
Genius
Where do I come alive?
Genius is where your strengths, instincts, energy, and experience come together in leadership only you can offer.
We might explore
- What absorbs and energizes you
- The strengths and instincts you rely on
- The conditions, roles, and relationships that bring out your best
- Where competence has become a comfortable limitation
- Where your passion and abilities can serve the greater good
Resourcing
What nourishes me?
Resourcing is what supports your capacity to be present, engaged, and choiceful. Some people and things fuel, restore, and enliven you. Others drain, dim, or constrain you.
We might explore
- Sleep, rest, and recovery
- Food, alcohol, movement, and the body
- Contemplation and learning
- Friendship and connection
- Limits, seasons, and the realities of being a finite human
- Play and creativity
Power
How do I relate to power?
Power is a capacity you hold to shape your environment, whether or not you are using it. This domain looks at your relationship to power and authority, how both operate in and around you, and how to use yours with courage and care.
We might explore
- Making consequential decisions under uncertainty
- Different types of power (positional, personal, and relative) and the difference between power and authority
- Visibility, reputation, influence, and whose reactions carry weight
- Using power and authority with integrity and respect for others
Craft
Where do I want to be excellent?
You may want to build a new capability, deepen an existing one, or decide that a skill is strong enough for now. Recognizing “enough” is part of the practice too.
We might explore
- Strategic thinking and direction-setting
- Clear, influential communication
- Building, managing, and developing strong teams
- Partnerships, negotiating, and organizational growth
- Another area you want to bring attention to
How we work with it
I designed this framework to offer enough structure to begin and enough openness to breathe and pivot. We can use it in three ways:
- Move from the inside out. Begin with Purpose and move through each area in sequence, ending with Craft. Each area builds on what came before.
- Follow what feels alive. Begin with the area that most needs your attention and follow the inquiry where it leads.
- Start with a current challenge. Bring a decision, dilemma, or leadership challenge. We’ll use the framework to explore and work through the challenge.
A learning lab
Some of our work turns inward, tending to the relationship between you and yourself. Fair warning: you may fall more deeply in love with who you are.
Some turns outward, exploring how you show up across roles, relationships, and rooms, and how you want to show up.
The Leading What Matters framework gives us places to begin and different ways to understand what is being asked of you. Between sessions, inquiry moves into the fieldwork of everyday life. You’ll run playful experiments and gather new information; we learn from what happens, and grow from there.
If you see yourself in any of this, I’d love to hear about it.
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