Writing
Most of my writing on Wild Leadership is published on Substack. This page collects a small number of core essays that define the idea.
Wild Leadership is the discipline of being your dangerous, unique self in positions of power. It describes the instinctive, purpose-led leadership that emerges when people reconnect with Nature — both the living world and their own deeper nature.
The idea starts from a simple observation: modern organisations behave less like machines and far more like living systems. Leadership therefore becomes less about control and optimisation, and more about judgement, stewardship, and the conditions that allow people and institutions to thrive.
The essays below introduce the central ideas behind Wild Leadership.
Core Essays
These pieces form the foundation of the Wild Leadership idea.
Wild Leadership
An introduction to the philosophy and practice of Wild Leadership: reconnecting with instinct, coherence and grounded authority while carrying real responsibility.
The Forest
A reframing of organisations as living systems rather than machines, and leadership as stewardship of the conditions that allow people and institutions to thrive.
You Are Not A Project
A critique of modern optimisation culture and the danger of treating a human life as something to be engineered rather than lived.
Wild Leadership in the Age of AI
A perspective on technology, judgement and why the future of leadership requires both deeper grounding and sharper discernment.
Wild Leadership FAQ
A practical guide to the ideas behind Wild Leadership — what it is, who it is for, and how leaders begin applying it in practice.