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Our founding members and our wider community of partners are trained in the theory behind this work. We apply it to our own lives first, through inner work, and we bring it to clients once it has held up for us. Then it keeps developing. Each client and each context teaches us something, and the work adapts with what we learn.
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Ideas in Motion.
This is where EnCircle thinks out loud.
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Honest observations from people who spend their working lives in the room for pivotal conversations: the ones where organisations decide to do things differently.
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You'll find reflections on leadership, culture, and what it takes to change how people show up together, what self-leadership looks like in practice, why it matters for organisations, and the occasional provocation, because the questions people find uncomfortable are usually the ones worth asking.
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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 & Essays.
Follow our insights on transforming organisational cultures, engaging people in creating the conditions for their own safety, fostering leadership across organisational levels, and more.
Every Organisation is a Collection of Circles, the Encircle philosophy
Safety Culture is Engagement Work, the argument for industrial clients and beyond
The Founder's Circle, why scaling companies need to make culture conscious
Inner Work First, why the best leaders do the hardest work on themselves
What the Circle of Concern is Costing You, a Covey-informed provocation
Coming soon...
On leadership and self-leadership:
The Conscious Leadership Group, Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp. An honest framework for what it means to lead above the line.
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Ronald Heifetz, Adaptive Leadership. The crucial distinction between technical problems and adaptive challenges, and what it takes to lead change.
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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.
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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.
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Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence. The science of self-awareness, empathy, and social skill as the foundations of effective leadership.
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On complexity and living systems:
Nora Bateson, Warm Data. The recognition that what matters most in a complex system is often visible only in the relationships between things, not the things themselves. Isabelle is a certified Warm Data Host.
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On culture and organisations:
Edgar Schein, the foundational thinker on organisational culture. Levels of culture, psychological safety, humble inquiry.
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Ken Wilber, Integral Theory and the AQAL framework. A map for holding the inner and outer, individual and collective dimensions of human systems simultaneously.
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Frederic Laloux, Reinventing Organisations. The Teal organisation as a model for purpose-led, self-managing, wholeness-centred ways of working.
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Gallup, the research on employee engagement, the decisive role of the manager-team relationship, and CliftonStrengths. Isabelle is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach.
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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.
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Gill Kernick: Catastrophe and Systemic Change, on what disasters such as the Grenfell Tower fire show about how organisations drift from what they say they value, and what it takes to change them. Isabelle learnt from Gill when they worked together at JMJ.
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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.
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Arnold Mindell, Sitting in the Fire. Working with conflict, power, and deep democracy in groups. Essential reading for anyone facilitating difficult conversations.
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ORSC, Organisational and Relationship Systems Coaching. Organisations as living systems of relationship.
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Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication. A framework for needs-based, honest human connection that underpins much of how we work. Hendrik is an experienced trainer and facilitator of NVC.
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Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The circle of influence as a practice.
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