Cultivated

A Cultivated framework for leading organisational change through narrative. This playbook defines a canonical narrative spine and explains how narrative acts as infrastructure for aligning people, decisions, and action.

A long-form essay on noticing, movement, and making sense of complexity — through travel, work, and the quiet principles that make both more humane.

The working field guide behind the Tech Portfolio Library Edition, including principles, templates, governance rhythms, and editor’s field notes.

A Studio companion to the Cultivated canon on creative rhythm. This piece introduces a Creative Operating System and a five-level maturity model for turning attention, insight, and practice into enduring work.

When everything is a priority, nothing truly is. This essay explores how competing initiatives erode trust, exhaust teams, and stall value — and why clarity is one of leadership’s deepest acts of care.

Plans, org charts, operating models and roadmaps help us explain work — but they are not the work. This essay explores the gap between the diagram and the day, and why leadership becomes more effective when it stays close to lived reality.

Most organisations lack focus, not effort. This Cultivated Notes reflection introduces the Vending Machine Method, a physical approach to naming, constraining, and choosing problems so teams can align attention and move from noise to value.

Many workshops stumble not because the content is poor, but because the learning structure fragments understanding. This Cultivated Notes reflection explores how structure shapes what learners retain, connect, and carry forward.

Buckminster Fuller’s quiet decision in 1927 changed his life and influenced generations. This essay explores unseen impact, how individual behaviour propagates through systems, and why responsibility extends beyond visible outcomes.