Cultivated Studio Archive

Cultivated Studio is the working notebook behind the Cultivated Library.
It contains field guides, templates, systems, and editor’s notes that explore how ideas become value in practice.

This page highlights selected Studio artefacts.
For the full archive, browse all Studio posts.

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Field Guides, Templates and Canvases

• Tech Portfolio Field Guide — Studio Edition
  Principles, templates, maturity models, and field notes for enterprise portfolio clarity.
• The Change Narrative Playbook: How Narrative Aligns People and Change - A Cultivated framework for leading organisational change through narrative.

Studio Notes

Selected editor’s notes, working systems, and drafts that explore clarity, creativity, learning, and value flow.

• Lacking Context and Inviting Meaning - and why we often like to create our own.
• The Creative Operating System: A Maturity Model for Turning Attention into a Body of Work – A Studio companion to creative rhythm. This piece introduces a Creative Operating System and a five-level maturity model for turning attention, insight, and practice into enduring work.
• Berlin - The art of noticing - a photo essay on the art of noticing and why this changes over time.
• To Flâneur: Wandering as a Practice of Attention and Creativity - In this Studio essay, I reflect on wandering as a practice for creativity, attention, and making space for ideas.
• Paper as a Thinking System - In this Studio essay, I explore notebooks, handwriting, and analogue tools as a personal thinking system—intentional friction for attention, learning, and shaping ideas into something real.
• Notes on Coaching: What I’ve Learned in Practice - In this Studio essay, I share field notes on coaching as a discipline for helping people improve outcomes in work and organisations.
• The 5:15 Report - The 5:15 report is a lightweight sense-making loop—five prompts that compress progress, improvement, and mood into a readable signal.
• Tone of Voice as a Leadership System - In this Studio essay, I explore tone of voice as a leadership system — how language shapes meaning, alignment, and action inside organisations.

Studio Conversations

Recordings, seminar notes, and working sessions from Cultivated Studio.

About Cultivated Studio

Cultivated Studio is the working notebook of the Cultivated Library.
The Library publishes timeless essays and frameworks.
Studio shows the work in motion: drafts, systems, templates, and experiments.

How to Use Cultivated Studio

Cultivated publishes work in two layers:

• The Library — frameworks, systems and timeless essays
• The Studio — applied field guides, templates, and working notes

The Studio is not a course or a checklist.
It is a working archive of systems, artefacts, and reflections that support practice.

Some posts are polished field guides.
Others are drafts, notebooks, and experiments.

Use what is helpful. Ignore what is not.