Love as intentional practice We’re invited to make many choices right now. We’re faced every day, in every moment, with what the poet David Whyte describes as ‘terrifying moments’ when we can choose to be one thing or choose to be another. For me right now, as you might expect…

When I was invited to attend #OneGreenGov London on 22 January, it was an offer I couldn’t pass up. Many speakers and attendees came together on the day to talk through their ideas, experiences, and hopes for the future — So what’s the link between love and climate change? For me, there are three immediate connections: First, climate change is the defining issue of this decade and certainly the backdrop to all other changes. As such, it calls for a revolutionary shift in how we think and how we act. Valarie Kaur believes that all revolutionary change has love…

The vital role love plays at a time of climate crisis My research and writing on love mostly relates to organisations and leadership. But when I was invited to speak at #OneGreenGov on love and the role it plays at a time of climate crisis, I couldn’t pass it up. …

Love and … choice It feels like the right time to be developing and expanding our understanding of love. If it’s the strong medicine that’s needed for tough times (and I think it is) and if we need a revolution based on love (I think we do) then we need…

Leadership, love and radical acceptance At a time when things can feel loveless both in the world in our organisations, I am asking whether love could or should have a role to play in leadership. At the back end of 2018, exploring leadership and love, I did a piece of…

I’m advocating for love in leadership. And I’m taking a stand for using the word love, and not empathy or compassion, say. In doing that, I also need to be alive to the ways that this is difficult or problematic because 30% of my research respondents said they felt uncomfortable…

Leadership and Love What role does love play in leadership? If love were at the heart of how we led, what might be possible? And what does ‘leading with love’ mean in practice? At the end of 2018, based on research conducted over the summer, I ran a workshop exploring…

75 responses. Some fascinating data. Raising some big questions. And so, coming up, a job I’m looking forward to… writing up my research from the Leadership and Love survey which has just closed. …

Acceptance as an act of love for leaders What do we mean, ‘leading from love? I’m inquiring into love in our organisations. I believe that if we could come from love more often in the way we lead, it would make a huge difference to how we feel, and even…