Systemic change | Collapse Aware | Regenerative Hopefulhttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mszjttc7ta2cI recently lost an engagement because a knowledge manager would lead the organisation’s AI preparation. It made me ask: who will hold the adaptive questions about identity, judgement, meaningful work and values? How do we really want to live and work with AI?14 Aug 2026 06:30 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mszjttc7ta2chttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3ms3jcoqr4p2eYou can't build adaptability on unspoken threat 🧠 Curiosity and threat can't occupy the same nervous system. Under threat, you don't get agility. You get a braced, defensive posture. The first job isn't to sell the vision harder. It's to lower the threat in the room. #Leadership02 Aug 2026 08:00 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms3jcoqr4p2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mrrktwt72727I don't do generic case studies 🚫 The fastest way to lose a room of experienced leaders is a case study from someone else's world. Before I speak, I learn your live challenges and weave them in, so we work with your reality, not generic examples. 📩 hello@drjosiemclean.com #Keynote29 Jul 2026 09:01 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrrktwt72727https://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mrewrf223y2hWhy your plan keeps losing to reality Change that matters rarely follows a project plan. Not because people are lazy, but because we manage living, interconnected challenges with tools built for a predictable world. The problem may not be effort. It may be the paradigm. #Complexity24 Jul 2026 08:30 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrewrf223y2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mqt6jpkdbh2hGathering your team at a moment of change? Before the vision, before the roadmap, there's a make-or-break moment: whether people can name what they're carrying into the room. My keynote "Finding Your Feet in Shifting Sand" is built for exactly that. hello@drjosiemclean.com #Keynote17 Jul 2026 07:01 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqt6jpkdbh2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mqbqaf5unj23What if the exhaustion in your climate team is useful data, not a failure to be more resilient? I’m curious how others are reading that signal. https://www.drjosiemclean.com/flourish-newsletter-by-dr-josie-mclean/developing-sustainability-climate-teams10 Jul 2026 08:30 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqbqaf5unj23https://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mqblbtheql2gPractical tip: put reflection time inside live projects. Not as a nice-to-have, but as part of delivery. If people never get to think, the work just gets louder and messier.10 Jul 2026 07:01 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqblbtheql2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mq4gxf4vcg2eWhen a problem lands on your desk, is it yours to solve? Technical problems, apply your expertise, done. Adaptive ones? The people with the problem have to change how they think. You can't solve those for them. Ask: is this mine to solve, or mine to help them face? #AdaptiveLeadership08 Jul 2026 06:00 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq4gxf4vcg2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mpxmqduawl2d“The tiredness lifts not because the work gets easier, but because the leader develops a different relationship with the difficulty.” That line stays with me.06 Jul 2026 08:00 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpxmqduawl2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mpqffqcyvn2qHot take: if your sustainability team looks “tired”, that’s not a morale problem — it’s usually a systems/design problem. We keep asking people to solve adaptive challenges like they’re technical tasks. https://www.drjosiemclean.com/flourish-newsletter-by-dr-josie-mclean/developing-sustainability-climate-teams03 Jul 2026 11:01 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqffqcyvn2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mplegtqmfe2mA local gov leader told me his team is flat out, near "panic mode." What they need next isn't more planning. It's team development, resilience & staying in the hard stakeholder conversations. Climate leadership is deeply human work. 🌏 What are you seeing in your team? #ClimateLeadership https://www.drjosiemclean.com/sustainability-teams01 Jul 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplegtqmfe2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mphz5vgacw2kMost "transformation" is theatre. 🎭 New model, new strategy, same three people dominating every meeting and the same assumptions nobody will name. The problem isn't your operating model. It's the habits you carry into the room. 🪞 Turn the mirror on yourselves, or keep rearranging deck chairs. 🚢30 Jun 2026 03:00 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mphz5vgacw2khttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3moz5unusda2c⏳ Final call: registrations for my Systemic Change program close at the end of June. 🌿 A trusted space for change practitioners who want to work with complexity, not fight it. Come and have a look. 👉 buff.ly/MTctUvT24 Jun 2026 05:15 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3moz5unusda2chttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3moxaucffrc2l"Old ways don't open new doors." 🚪 We want new results but walk in with old habits. Maturing a team means learning to notice that, in real time, and change it together. 🔄 Real change is grown, not installed.23 Jun 2026 11:03 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3moxaucffrc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mokogrvuql2sSix months. Eight half-day workshops. One real initiative from your own work that you apply everything to. 🔧 You leave with observable progress and a clearer picture of how your system has shifted. 🗺️ 📅 Systemic Change starts July. Registrations close end of June. 👉 buff.ly/MTctUvT18 Jun 2026 11:01 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mokogrvuql2shttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mohd3ctogc2iTwo leadership teams. Several years. Same quiet truth. 🌱 One started by building a shared vision. One started by asking what makes an effective team at all. Different doors. Same maturation: get honest, run small experiments, change direction together. 🧭 #Leadership #ExecutiveCoaching17 Jun 2026 03:00 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mohd3ctogc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3moez5226kt2jIf you're working in climate or sustainability and feeling burnt out, the problem probably isn't you. It's that we're using a mechanistic model of change in a living, complex world. My Systemic Change program is a different way to work. Registrations close end of June. buff.ly/MTctUvT16 Jun 2026 04:57 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3moez5226kt2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mnegma7r7227Hot take: most burnout in change work isn’t from the work itself — it’s from forcing living systems to obey a roadmap. We need direction, not control. Read more: https://www.drjosiemclean.com/flourish-newsletter-by-dr-josie-mclean/roadmaps-vs-direction-living-systems03 Jun 2026 06:00 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnegma7r7227https://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mmvgavdutl2tTomorrow, 12pm AEST. Free webinar for sustainability and climate practitioners working inside complex systems. If the toolkit hasn't been fitting the work, come and talk about why. 👇 buff.ly/BtPUmBR28 May 2026 06:44 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmvgavdutl2thttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mmsteyvbid26Friday's webinar isn't about teaching you that linear tools fail in complex systems. You already know that. It's about language, peers, and a practice space that matches the work. For sustainability and climate practitioners ready to stop working alone. 29 May, 12pm AEST. 👇 buff.ly/BtPUmBR27 May 2026 06:00 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmsteyvbid26https://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mmkw76dik32dIf you've been reading my posts and thinking "this is the work I want to do, I just don't know how to start", the Systemic Change Program is built for you. Early-bird closes Monday 1 June. $600 saving. https://www.drjosiemclean.com/systemic-change-public-program24 May 2026 02:30 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmkw76dik32dhttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mmg3jhj52t2nYou have permission to ask whether the toolkit you were handed was ever right for the job. Project plans and logic models work for technical problems. For complex adaptive work, they often don't. That's not your execution failing. Free webinar Friday 29 May. https://www.drjosiemclean.com/systemic-change-webinar22 May 2026 04:22 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmg3jhj52t2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mmebenqjrn23Michelle Holiday: focus less on convincing people of your answers, more on convening them. When we lead with convincing, we get resistance. When we lead with convening, something wiser emerges. It's slower though. Which is the catch. Where would convening change what's possible for you?21 May 2026 11:01 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmebenqjrn23https://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mm7c4rx3ff2rWe talk about "the system" as though it's out there. To be mapped. Fixed. But the system lives in us too. In our assumptions, our habits, what we consider normal. If we want the system to change, some part of us has to change too. Humbling. Also oddly hopeful.19 May 2026 11:31 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm7c4rx3ff2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mm4ftxt3ha2cMost executives I coach arrive with a challenge that's resisted their best thinking. A stuck team. Draining politics. A strategy that keeps stalling. These aren't tidy problems. They're complex, and usually tangled up with us. If you need a thinking partner, let's chat. www.drjosiemclean.com/contact18 May 2026 08:00 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm4ftxt3ha2chttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mkzmt6j7qa23I keep seeing the same pattern: the plan gets approved, the old habits stay in charge, and everyone wonders why nothing changed. There’s a better way to work with complexity. https://www.drjosiemclean.com/flourish-newsletter-by-dr-josie-mclean/systemic-change-program-climate-leaders Register for free webinar https://www.drjosiemclean.com/systemic-change-webinar04 May 2026 12:01 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzmt6j7qa23https://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mku32ooban2yPractical tip: stop asking only ‘what’s the plan?’ and start asking ‘what are we willing to test?’ One safe-to-fail experiment can teach you more than six months of polished consultation.02 May 2026 07:00 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mku32ooban2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mkrm6ifyag23A pattern I see often: a team consults widely, the plan grows, ambition grows, workload grows faster. Then it lands in a system never set up to hold it. Consultation isn't collective sense-making. A wish list isn't strategy if the system stays unchanged. What if the room changed the room?01 May 2026 07:29 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrm6ifyag23https://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mkadsqx5he2mFeeling tired doing #sustainability and #climate work? Sensing there must be a better way? Systemic Change 2026 is an 6-month programme drawing on complexity science, living systems & adaptive leadership. Free webinar to discover more https://www.drjosiemclean.com/systemic-change-webinar24 Apr 2026 10:44 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkadsqx5he2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/josiemclean.bsky.social/post/3mkadsqx5he2mFeeling tired doing #sustainability and #climate work? Sensing there must be a better way? Systemic Change 2026 is an 6-month programme drawing on complexity science, living systems & adaptive leadership. Free webinar to discover more https://www.drjosiemclean.com/systemic-change-webinar24 Apr 2026 10:44 +0000at://did:plc:mttxrp6txrc3ex4o2q7fcsxt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkadsqx5he2m