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.
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.
Designing for Humanity: A More Human Approach to Social Research
There is a quiet shift happening in the world of social research—one that has been years in the making, but is only now becoming impossible to ignore.
Deep Listening vs Consultation: What’s Actually Working in 2025
Over the past decade, “community engagement” has become a phrase that appears everywhere. On paper, engagement is now expected. But…
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