The alignment of leadership and purpose

A garden, exhibition and educational space in London, England, was exploring food, ecology, creativity and climate resilience. The leaders came to TIHR at a moment of significant transition. Its founder had attended the Leicester Conference — an experience that prompted a fundamental reappraisal of their own role and the organisation’s direction.

The work began with rhythm and task, using seasonal cycles as an entry point into how the team understood itself. It moved into intergroup work on relationships between different parts of the organisation, individual role analysis, and social dreaming. 

At the heart of it was a question that only honest inquiry could answer: how do you lead an organisation through transformation when you are also the one being transformed?