Clearing Moral Debris: What Leaders Need to Know About Moral Injury

A heart shattered by moral injury stitched together by Dr. Natalie Pickering's book, Leading Becomes You

In Leading Becomes You, I write about the emotional and psychological debris leaders accumulate — unresolved experiences, compromises, betrayals, and unprocessed wounds that clog the inner terrain of their leadership. One of the most significant kinds of debris is what psychologists now call moral injury, the disruption to one’s moral fiber that arises from committing … Read more

Beyond the Model: Where Liminality Meets the Stages of Change

A cocoon in mid-transformation symbolizing the uncertain, fertile in-between space of liminality that leaders and teams must navigate during meaningful organizational change

When organizations embark on change, they usually reach for familiar tools: Gantt charts, strategy decks, maybe even a change curve. These are essential and I recommend them. But I find that rarely do we initiate or encourage talk about what change feels like—that strange terrain where the old ways no longer work, and the new … Read more

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