Innovators tend to live in their heads.

It’s rare that they are able to interact with other people in an environment where they can be free to go as deep or as wide as their mind wants to naturally soar.

My tribe are influential leaders in their field but what they share is profound uniqueness and hidden genius that others can’t see, or perhaps don’t want to. This feels like both a gift and a curse from their perspective.

My gift (and curse) is my ability to see and understand the hidden genius within everyday people. The secret isn’t magic…it’s enabled by patient, active listening without preconception or seeking to ‘do’ anything with what I am hearing prematurely. In this state ideas blossom and concepts flourish as they are allowed to naturally cohere.

I have come to learn that emergent (non-deterministic) innovation doesn’t begin with technology or even a problem statement. It begins with thought leadership and in a world of fear that no longer values ideation, this kind of thinking is more likely to be seen as a threat to the legacy systems and patterned behaviour keeping us alive.

My devotion is to holding conducive spaces for groundbreaking ideas to emerge and breathe without constraint, so they can naturally cohere without the pressure and tragedy premature birth.

My superpower in business is crystalising the mission, adapting the strategy and embedding a logical plan that adapts and changes but never loses sight of True North.

Paradoxically it is the establishment of an immutable cadence (not system) and trusted (adaptive) systems that enable a culture to fully embrace innovative thinking, without fear of disrupting what’s keeping the tribe alive and fed. In this state of mind as individuals and as an organisation we are finally free to take a risk pursuing our hearts desire, without our mind having to intervene.