Archive - July 2025

Love in leadership

I’ve recently co-facilitated with Jeremy Keeley a workshop for Sadler Heath on love in leadership.  When organisations focus on interconnection and interdependence, -characteristics of an organisational culture in which love is more likely to show up at work - those organisations tend to get creativity, innovation, connection, psychological safety, inclusion – everything that organisations say they want.  What draws me is a visceral sense of the essential humanity, care and inevitable connection, and – incidentally - the consequent sustainable business benefits – of such an approach.  Experiential characterises how a leader typically manifests love in the workplace.  It’s not a skill, it’s not a process, it’s not an approach: it’s how the leader lives their working life, how they relate to others, the lens through which they perceive, interpret and respond to the world around them.  Leading with love means the leader loving their people, their mission, their purpose and their organisation, the world beyond their organisation and the entire biosphere.  It’s a way of being.