What if leadership wasn’t a role, but a rhythm we hold together? The Greater London Authority’s Skills & Employment Unit faced a familiar problem: too many siloed initiatives, not enough shared direction. But the solution wasn’t another strategy doc — it was a cultural intervention. This project reframed leadership not as personal power, but as collective pattern — a way of working across difference, uncertainty and public mandate. Approach • Designed and facilitated an immersive strategic away day for 10 senior leaders • Used relational governance tools to surface hidden dynamics, power asymmetries and unspoken agreements • Aligned leadership rhythms to the wider ecosystem of London’s employment infrastructure • Supported a shift from performance orientation to shared intent and regenerative learning Impact • Rebuilt trust among teams with a history of competition and fragmentation • Anchored new ways of working in embodied experience, not just abstract frameworks • Catalysed a longer-term process of systemic integration and psychological safety • Demonstrated that institutional reset starts with how we hold the room, not what we plan on paper
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