26/08/2026
What does strategy look like before it becomes a plan?
Sometimes, it looks like this.....
A room full of leaders listening, experimenting, adapting and discovering what happens when individual thinking becomes collective movement.
I recently facilitated a mini-workshop for a leadership team preparing to lay out their strategy đ
Before setting the vision or debating the strategy, we explored the quality of thinking and collaboration being brought into the room:
đŹHow well are we listening to perspectives beyond our own?
đŹCan we align around a shared direction without losing the value of difference?
đŹWhat assumptions have become so familiar that we mistake them for reality?
đŹAnd what becomes possible when we stop designing the future entirely from the limitations of the present?
Then the fun began:
Through practical exercises like "The Reality Trap", 'Resource Bridge" - the group moved from activity to deeper inquiry: challenging their frame/perception, identifying what mattered most and considering what would need to be simplified, raised or released.
đBecause a strong strategy is created when leaders:
listen openly, question courageously and become willing to make the focused choices a greater future requires.
This team rocked it - I was so honoured to work with them.
It was a powerful reminder that strategy is not only about deciding where to go. It is also about becoming the leadership team capable of getting there.
PS And for those who have done creator work, it is also another use for a strawđ¤Ł
