Field Notes

On the interior life of
Black leadership.

Essays, conversations, and perspectives on leading with clarity, integrity, and depth at the edge of complexity.

Field Notes

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The inner architecture of sustainable ambition

Ambition without inner infrastructure is just pressure with better branding. Here’s what it actually takes to build the capacity to hold your vision.

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What colonialism did to our relationship with rest

Exploring how dominant work culture pathologises recovery, and what decolonising your relationship with stillness might unlock in your leadership.

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How to think clearly under impossible pressure

Decision-making when the stakes are high and the data is thin.

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When your values and your organisation’s culture quietly diverge

The slow drift is harder to name than the sharp rupture — and far more common in high-performing teams.

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On being a first — the weight no one prepares you for

Being the first Black [role] in a room changes what you are asked to represent. A meditation on that weight.

12 min read

At the Edge

Conversations at the frontier of Black leadership, complexity, and inner capacity.

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The quiet authority of those who know themselves
On the difference between performed confidence and earned groundedness.
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Complexity, collapse, and the leader who holds the room
What happens in the nervous system of leaders when systems start to fail.
44 min
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What does it mean to lead from wholeness?
A deep exploration of integration — bringing the full self to leadership when institutions were built to accept only parts of you.
61 min

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Psychological safety isn’t enough — here’s what your team actually needs

On building the conditions for genuine candour in high-stakes teams.

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The difference between vision and ambition

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On becoming ungovernable in the best sense

38 min · At the Edge
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Grief as a leadership competency

Organisations that can’t grieve can’t change. Why leaders need to lead through loss.

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The art of the strategic pause

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Race, rupture, and the resilient organisation

55 min · At the Edge
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