Research
An ongoing inquiry into transformation.
My work is grounded in an ongoing inquiry into what happens when an existing way of understanding, organising or living can no longer fully hold — and what comes next has not yet formed.
I am particularly interested in the passage itself: what happens when the old begins to loosen, how we remain in relationship with the unknown, how we interact with what starts to emerge, and how a new way of being or operating gradually takes form.
At the heart of the inquiry is a question I keep returning to:
How can we participate in transformation without rushing to recreate what we already know — or turning what emerges into another fixed identity or rigid way of operating?
From my own passage
When I Could No Longer Go Back to Who I Was
My own passage of transformation through motherhood, identity, uncertainty and rediscovery.
Motherhood was my biggest moment of transformation. Things that had once felt incredibly important to me suddenly didn't hold the same power — and yet the labels I had allocated to myself were still being held tightly. If I am not this, then who am I?
Read Full StoryQuestions guiding my inquiry
What actually transforms?
When we speak about human or organisational transformation, what is fundamentally changing — rather than simply being improved, adapted or rearranged?
What happens in the in-between?
What happens when an existing way of understanding, organising or operating no longer fully holds, while what comes next has not yet formed?
What allows us to stay in the passage?
What helps us remain open and engaged with uncertainty long enough for possibilities beyond our existing ways of seeing and operating to become available?
How do we interact with what is emerging?
How can we explore, test and stay in relationship with what begins to appear without immediately forcing it into something we already know?
How does a new organisation take form?
What happens between liminality and renewed coherence — and how can enough structure emerge for us to live and act without turning it immediately into another fixed identity or rigid way of operating?
What capacities does transformation ask of us?
What allows individuals, leaders and organisations to meet these passages with greater awareness, openness, courage, discernment and capacity to participate?
Follow the inquiry
I share what I am exploring as it develops — questions, reflections, research, emerging ideas and observations from practice.
Longer reflections, developing ideas, research and conversations around human and organisational transformation.
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It is a growing landscape of questions, perspectives and discoveries.