Our Thinking.
We share what we're learning, from our work, from our clients, and from our own lives. Because the best thinking comes from people who are still in it.
Ideas in Motion.
This is where Encircle thinks out loud. Honest observations from people who spend their working lives in the room for pivotal conversations: the ones where organisations decide to do things differently.
You'll find reflections on leadership, culture, and what it actually takes to change how people show up together. What self-leadership looks like in practice, and why it matters for organisations. And the occasional provocation, because the questions that make people uncomfortable are usually the ones most worth asking.
The Self-Leadership Series.
Isabelle is currently sharing her self-leadership journey publicly, what it looks like to apply the same tools she uses with leaders to her own life, in real time, through one of the most challenging experiences of her life.
The series explores what great leadership really starts with: not strategy, not structure, not even skills, but the quality of your relationship with yourself. How you lead yourself through difficulty. How you stay grounded when the ground shifts. How you find your way back to what matters.
Articles and Essays.
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Every Organisation is a Collection of Circles, the Encircle philosophy
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Safety Culture is Engagement Work, the argument for industrial clients and beyond
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The Founder's Circle, why scaling companies need to make culture conscious
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Inner Work First, why the best leaders do the hardest work on themselves
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What the Circle of Concern is Costing You, a Covey-informed provocation
Coming soon...
Who We Learn From.
The thinking that shapes Encircle's work draws on a rich set of influences. We mention them not to name-drop but because we believe in attribution.
On leadership and self-leadership:
Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The circle of influence as a daily practice.
The Conscious Leadership Group, Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp. The most honest framework for what it actually means to lead above the line.
Ronald Heifetz, Adaptive Leadership. The crucial distinction between technical problems and adaptive challenges, and what it actually takes to lead change.
Simon Sinek, Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, The Infinite Game. On purpose, trust, and what it means to lead in a way people want to follow.
Timothy Gallwey and Miles Downey, The Inner Game and non-directive coaching. The foundational idea that performance is as much about removing inner obstacles as building outer skills.
Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence. The science of self-awareness, empathy, and social skill as the foundations of effective leadership.
On culture and organisations:
Edgar Schein, the foundational thinker on organisational culture. Levels of culture, psychological safety, humble inquiry.
Ken Wilber, Integral Theory and the AQAL framework. A map for holding the inner and outer, individual and collective dimensions of human systems simultaneously.
Frederic Laloux, Reinventing Organisations. The Teal organisation as a model for purpose-led, self-managing, wholeness-centred ways of working.
Gallup, the research on employee engagement, the decisive role of the manager-team relationship, and CliftonStrengths. Isabelle is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach.
On human performance and safety:
Todd Conklin and the Human and Organisational Performance (HOP) community, a fundamental reframing of safety, error, and the conditions that shape how people behave at work.
On human systems and relationship:
John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman, decades of research on what makes relationships work, what breaks them, and how trust is built and repaired. Foundational for anyone working with teams and leadership.
Arnold Mindell, Sitting in the Fire. Working with conflict, power, and deep democracy in groups. Essential reading for anyone facilitating difficult conversations.
ORSC, Organisational and Relationship Systems Coaching. Organisations as living systems of relationship.
Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication. A framework for needs-based, honest human connection that underpins much of how we work.
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