In times like these, many of us can feel—like bone-on-bone and flint on rock—both what is unraveling and what is quietly coming alive through the cracks. In “A Feather’s Reflections on Leading in Chaos,” by Mark Leach, we sit with the truth that leaders are navigating unrelenting and intentional strategic chaos: sown to create uncertainty, fear, isolation, and a sense of lost control. And still, alongside aloneness, communities of reciprocity, care, and love continue to blossom. This offering begins from that tension, honoring how much the world is asking of us, and how, somehow, we keep giving, finding lift even as the ground shifts beneath us.
This reflection workbooklet (available in digital and printable versions) invites us into new and re-membered shapes of leadership, asking us to loosen our grip on familiar mental models and make space for deeper, more embodied, and interdependent ways of knowing. Like learning to read the wind rather than forcing our wings, it calls us to attune to the living currents moving through us and our communities right now, and to trust the updrafts that make new flights forward possible.
We hope you’ll receive this offering as something light enough to carry, yet strong enough to help us stay aloft, nourishment for this season of restoration and introspection. We’d love to hear what it opens for you. If you’re curious to learn more or partner with us as you explore what’s needed to lead, dream, and strategize in chaos, check out our leadership and strategy offerings and reach out to us!
If you’d like the digital version of the workbook, you can find it here.
Printing Instructions
- This workbooklet prints on standard 8.5×11 paper
- Make sure you print double-sided (when you view the PDF of this, some pages will appear upside down…don’t worry, this is intentional!)
- Once printed, each folded page will nest inside the next (check your page numbers to make sure you’re folding in the correct direction!)
- For binding you can staple, thread, or otherwise affix at the seam!
Workbook written by Mark Leach, designed by Naima Yael Tokunow
