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Coaching and Leadership


The Priors That Hold You
Predictive processing and a complexity approach to personal transformation cowritten by Adrian Wagner & Anne Caspari In leadership development and coaching, people often try to create lasting change through new beliefs, positive affirmations or, worse, mindset training. But lasting transformation does not happen by repeating new sentences or resetting the mind, as we switch a computer on and off. It rather happens when the nervous system learns a new way of relating to reali

Adrian Wagner
Jul 247 min read


Development and Emergence
Two Distinctly Different Logics of Change What prompted it is something I keep running into in organisational life: development and emergence being treated as if they described the same kind of change. They don’t. They are structurally different processes with different governing logics, and conflating them produces interventions that systematically address the wrong thing. The cost is a misdirection at the level of design. The article begins by getting that distinction right

Anne Caspari
Jun 1710 min read
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