Edge Work
This isn’t just a blog — it’s where strategy meets soul, and practice gets personal. Edge Work is for the thinkers, doers, and questioners navigating real change inside complex systems.
We share what we’re noticing, testing, and learning — from co-design sessions to leadership rooms to cultural landscapes.
Insights from the margins of systems and change.
Leading Like a Forest: Principles of Nature-Based, Human-Centred Leadership
Forests, wetlands, river systems and reefs have been navigating complexity for millennia. They are living systems that know how to adapt, regenerate, and hold diversity — without a five-year strategic plan in sight.
The KŌTA Framework: How We Create Conditions for Enduring Transformation
KŌTA’s work is grounded in one core belief: Transformation is not an outcome. It is a condition that must be designed, grown, and sustained.
The Seven Patterns I See Across Every Community Project
If you work in community settings long enough you start to notice something. Despite the diversity of contexts, cultures, histories, and challenges, there are patterns that show up almost everywhere.
Soft Power Leadership: Why Calm Is the New Strategic Edge
Leadership is shifting—not as a trend, but as a fundamental change in influence and authority. The leaders rising now aren’t the toughest; they’re the ones with the calmest, clearest nervous systems.
Heritage Is Not the Past: It’s the Story We Carry Forward
Heritage in Australia is often treated as something fixed—an artefact, a site, a moment frozen in time. But heritage is alive. It breathes through people, relationships, landscapes, and memory. It changes as communities change.
The Future of Social Research in Australia: What’s Changing and Why
Social research in Australia is shifting fast—from survey-heavy, traditional methods to approaches that are relational, place-based, Indigenous-led, and strengthened by new technologies.
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Notes on change, culture, and courage — once in a while, when it matters.
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