How can we shift leadership energy to co-creative collaboration?

jenny andersson
Regenerate The Future
5 min readAug 16, 2019

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What is the energy of regenerative leadership?

When I started to curate the speaker team to deliver our next Connectle webinar on regenerative leadership, I had no shortage of wonderful speakers I wanted to invite to the conversation. There are so many wonderful leaders in this field; activists, entrepreneurs, biomimicry practitioners, consultants and coaches. What I had difficulty with was the question we would explore in the single hour in which we come together.

Although we’ve settled on ‘How can we shift leadership energy to co-creative collaboration?’ I’m still not sure it has captured what I hope we can discuss. Part of me wanted to call it ‘How can we activate the transformative power of women?’. Another idea was to name it ‘How can we bring the energy of the future we want into business?’. A third was ‘How can we defeat the energy of patriarchy?’

we have a paucity of language to describe this leadership energy

Many of these questions would have been distractions. To imply that this energy is more often found in women has already invited controversy — yet that is my personal experience . It is certainly not gender specific. It is only related to gender in that the terminology —…

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jenny andersson
Regenerate The Future

Activating social & environmental purpose. Designing strategic narratives for change. Creating space for impossibly difficult conversations. Inspired by nature.