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.
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.
Regenerative Social Systems: Designing Communities That Can Thrive
There is a quiet shift happening across the social sector, environmental policy circles, and community leadership spaces. The language of “sustainability”, is being replaced by something deeper, more alive, and more honest: regeneration.
Co-Design, But Make It Real: Six Mistakes Organisations Keep Repeating
Co-design has become one of those words that gets sprinkled into every strategy, grant submission, and community engagement plan. It signals modernity. But the truth is…
Reading the Landscape: What Country Teaches Us About Leadership
There is a moment, if you spend enough time on Country, when the landscape begins to speak back. Not in words. Not in metaphors. Not even in signs the way leadership books talk about.
When the System Is the Client: Navigating Complexity with Clarity
Explore how systems thinking helps leaders diagnose root causes, avoid symptom-fixing, and create meaningful organisational change with clarity and confidence.
Keep the fire lit.
Notes on change, culture, and courage — once in a while, when it matters.
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