Ideas for Regenerative Leaders Newsletter

Good coaching helps you cut through the noise and get clarity on your directions, goals, priorities… and turn it into action.

Map the external forces, trends, and patterns impacting your business model with a context analysis. Fresh insights to design solutions your customers love.

Create the conditions, mindset, and approach to successfully lead innovation and solve problems that matter.

My memory has always been my superpower. People have asked if I’ve got a photographic memory. I don’t. I have the opposite. I have multi-sensory aphantasia.

SydDT is a very open and interactive community. We’re willing to experiment and take risks. We decided we’d co-design a song with a three-piece band.

It’s been a few weeks where trade has dominated global headlines. Trade is innately human and based on relationships. Much more than just transactions.

Happy Earth Month! How will you celebrate? This year the theme is Our Power, Our Planet – a call to triple global renewable energy generation by 2030.

20 March is International Day of Happiness. The theme this year is “caring and sharing”. A reminder that lasting happiness comes from caring for each other.

30 years ago, an inflight magazine changed my life.

Spark meaningful conversations, build connections, accelerate problem-solving, and unlock collective intelligence with the Open Space format.

How are you adapting to meet the rapidly shifting expectations of your teams, customers, investors, and regulators?

What are your resolutions for 2025? How do we approach this in a regenerative way that increases our wellbeing and helps us make progress?

2024. It’s been another big year with plenty of fun playing at the place where regenerative leadership, design, and innovation meets wellbeing and purpose.

The Regen Leaders Framework brings five key elements together into an integrated practice… to drive great performance and outcomes for all stakeholders.

If you’ve read my posts, seen me speak, checked out my book, or chatted with me… you know I talk about “regenerative”. A lot. So why regenerative?

Sharing your story is an important part of any journey. A good story will resonate with your audience, engage their curiosity, and generate conversation.

The AICD Essential Director Update 2024 with a strong focus on genAI, cybersecurity, mandatory climate reporting, company culture, and financial resilience.

Celebrating 23 years of Dynamic4. 23 years full of change, learning, and adapting… and that continues.

When we’re working on complex problems there are a lot of unknowns and uncertainty. We need just enough structure to navigate the ambiguity.

We’re always working with incomplete, inaccurate, and inconsistent information. But we need to take a position on the best available evidence.

What makes a great leader? The most common qualities mentioned were empathy, vision, clarity, team, communication, growth, and authenticity.

How do we make sense of what’s going on? There are also many different perspectives, contexts, and ways of seeing the world.

My focus is leadership, design, and innovation for happier communities. It’s important to me that you enjoy the journey of solving problems that matter.

86% of leaders reported increased expectations from their teams, customers, investors, regulators, and others. What are you experiencing and observing?

How do you create your happiness? There are simple actions we can take that literally change our brain chemistry and make us feel good and be more creative.

Who are the people you’re focused on creating value with and for? Learn about the seven elements of the free Dynamic4 People/Problem Canvas.

Reflecting on 30 years of my startup life and what I’ve learnt from co-founding over 20 startups and social enterprises since I was 18.

What’s your purpose… your driving why? Clarity of purpose makes decisions easier. It gives us a clear filter to assess and prioritise options.

What helps keep you feeling happy and healthy? Create your personal wellbeing plan.

As a leader, how are you adapting to meet the rapidly shifting expectations of your teams, customers, investors, and regulators?