Leadership and organisational culture are shaped not only by what we know, but by how we experience ourselves in relation to others, and our capacity to make meaning of those experiences.

Whether you're leading yourself, a team or an organisation, it's easy to find yourself caught in familiar patterns. You work harder, introduce new initiatives or try a different approach, yet the same dynamics often return. Trust erodes. Conversations become guarded. Blame replaces curiosity. People retreat into silos. You find yourself caught between taking control and stepping back.

These patterns don't disappear by asking people to work harder or care more. They change when the conditions enable people to speak honestly, work collaboratively and learn together.

This is the approach I bring to my work. Rather than ready-made solutions, I partner with leaders and organisations to notice what's happening, explore recurring patterns, and open up new possibilities for leadership and organisational culture.

This approach may resonate if:

You believe leadership and organisational culture are shaped through relationships, trust and meaning as much as strategy and results.
You're curious about the patterns and dynamics that influence the way people lead, work and relate.
You're open to exploring difficult questions rather than searching for quick answers.
You're open to cultivating greater connectedness, curiosity and courage in your leadership.

This approach is brought together through Taithí – a framework for leading from experience.

AN EXPERIENCE-LED APPROACH

TAITHÍ

A Framework for Leading From Experience

Taithí (pronounced TAH-hee), is the Irish word for lived experience.

Taithí developed through the integration of psychoanalytic ideas first explored in my doctoral research and further developed through my experience of working with leaders and organisations.

Taithí is a creative leadership framework that works across three interconnected layers:

Inner States: Grounded | Defended | Reflective
How we experience ourselves and relate to others

Creative Tensions: Intuitive | Thoughtful | Embodied
The dynamic that enables insight, learning and change

Leadership Capacities: Connected | Courageous | Curious
The qualities that emerge when experience is reflected on and put into action.

The Taithí framework supports leaders and teams to stay present in uncertainty, make meaning in motion, and lead with creativity and clarity.

TAITHÍ IN PRACTICE

Three complementary disciplines underpin the way I work with leaders and organisations:
psychodynamic and systems thinking, reflective practice, and creative practice.

An iceberg depicting visibile and invisible aspects of organisational life

A diagram of the iterative nature of reflective practice and action learning

BENEATH THE SURFACE

A systems psychodynamic approach is used to explore group dynamics, and to identify known and unknown elements that may be influencing behaviour.

REFLECTIVE PRACTICE

Reflective practice invites individuals and groups to deepen their awareness, uncover assumptions, and surface new possibilities for learning and change .

ARTS-BASED METHODS

Art-based methods are ideal for understanding group dynamics and culture as they can illuminate issues which are outside of awareness.