Liminal Leadership

I operate with clients in that liminal space between the known and the unknown. The area where we have yet to find things out, where there are no benchmarks or "solutions"

Many people use people like me at a point of pain. When something has become manifest. It's a much easier point of access, but limited in scope. Like taking painkillers, it's often a fast and convenient, but temporary relief for a symptom rather than something that address the root cause.

Organisations love painkillers. However, there are always people inside those organisations who understand symptoms for what they are.

Accessing these people is not easy. It's not about marketing, or logic. Mostly, it's about reputation, empathy, and an ability to start a conversation about the liminal space. It's about trust and crossing boundaries.

Liminal spaces are the gaps between one state and another. In traditional cultures they can be rites of passage, In music, the space between one note and the next (Miles Davis said that he…