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My book, What Passion Costs, explores passion extraction and what it takes to build a workplace people and the system both own, and I built it around a leadership habitats framework. Next week, I’ll be standing behind that framework at a booth at the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies meeting, in front of a […]

We can’t steward what we can’t see — leaders cannot protect their own capacity, sustain their teams, or lead a culture well until they’ve first built real leadership self-awareness. That belief came into clear focus during a recent leadership development residency with a cohort of conservation leaders, and it’s the foundation for this piece. I […]

How conservation leadership culture silences the experiences that sustain it Picture a campfire. Not as metaphor yet. Just the thing itself. Imagine a circle. Everyone is equally distant from the center, with no head of the table, no podium, and no raised platform. Warmth is physical and shared. The darkness at the edges surrounds the […]

Why leadership capacity and human capacity are not the same thing Conservation organizations typically evaluate leadership capacity by measuring performance, adaptability, and output. But leadership capacity and regenerative capacity are not the same thing. In mission-driven fields like conservation, high-performing leaders often experience burnout not because they lack skills, but because the internal conditions required […]