The Hub
Here we share the frameworks, tools, and reflections that guide our work, including our Collaboration Compass.
Upcoming Events
Opportunities to reflect, practice, and connect with others in the work
Our events are designed to support you in leading and collaborating more thoughtfully in complex environments. Whether you’re joining a workshop, a Circle, or a longer programme, you’ll find time to slow down, learn alongside others, and develop practical ways to show up with more awareness and intention.
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Our Circles are confidential peer groups for you and your peers to connect, learn and grow together.
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Beyond Control: A Complexity Lens
Our approach is grounded in a complexity-informed view of change. That means we recognise that change can’t be fully predicted, controlled, or managed in the ways we’re often taught. Instead, we explore ways of working that help us better navigate uncertainty and challenge more traditional assumptions about leadership and organisational change.
One of the key tools we use to support this work is the Collaboration Compass.
Featured resources

Collaboration Compass Guide
An orientation to the Collaboration Compass with practical ways to understand and strengthen how you think, relate, act, and show up with others in complexity.
GUIDE
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Peer Learning Playbook
This playbook distils our years of learning through supporting organisations of all kinds to implement and sustain peer learning mechanisms to support effective collaboration, leadership, culture and purposeful change.
GUIDE
Our Methodology & Approach
Collaboration Compass
Our approach is shaped by the Collaboration Compass, a practice-based framework developed to support more effective collaboration in the real, often messy, conditions of organisational life.
Rooted in a complexity-informed view of change, the Compass doesn’t offer neat prescriptions. Instead, it brings attention to the everyday patterns, behaviours, and relational dynamics that shape how people work together. In doing so, it supports the development of the capacities and practices needed to navigate uncertainty, hold difference, and take thoughtful action in context.
In our work, the compass acts as both a lens and a prompt: to notice what’s helping or hindering progress, and to engage more intentionally in the ongoing work of making meaning and moving forward, together.
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