Spirit at Work Resources
Leadership beyond extraction
An exploration of what lies beyond extractive cultures built on endless growth, competition and consumption. Drawing on ideas of stewardship, interdependence and ecosystemic intelligence, it considers more regenerative ways of living and leading.
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Critical Yeast
This post explores how lasting change often begins in small, relational spaces rather than mass movements. Using the metaphor of "critical yeast", it considers the conditions that allow new forms of leadership, culture and collective possibility to emerge. Transformation is not always dramatic.
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Listening well is an ethical act
In a world shaped by noise, certainty and reaction, this post explores the importance of slower forms of attention. Hetty reflects on deep listening as an ethical act that helps us remain open, connected and fully human in polarised times.
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Leadership, Nervous Systems and Human Flourishing
Human beings are shaped by the environments they inhabit, psychologically and neurologically. Hetty reflects on how cultures of care, trust and thoughtful conversation create the conditions for human flourishing, and why this is a leadership responsibility.
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The Trance of Dissatisfaction
This post explores how modern life keeps us caught in cycles of striving, consumption and never-enough. Hetty reflects on what becomes possible when we question these patterns and reconnect with meaning, contribution and more humane ways of living and working.
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Closed for Lunch
A reflection on what might happen if we placed human wellbeing back at the centre of working life. Hetty explores the quiet radicalism of reclaiming time, humanity and care within cultures driven by speed, pressure and productivity. We are not machines and working non-stop is not what we do best.
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What are we really coaching people for?
This conversation explores how coaching and leadership might evolve in response to ecological crisis, uncertainty and social fragmentation. Hetty reflects on meaning, ethical inquiry and the importance of listening deeply in a culture shaped by speed, noise and dissatisfaction.
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From Systems Thinking to Ecosystemic Mindset
This post explores the difference between systems thinking and truly ecosystemic ways of living and leading. Hetty reflects on what nature can teach us about interdependence, responsibility and acting in ways that sustain the wider whole.
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Hope Flourishes in Life's Cracks
This post, first published in Coaching Perspectives’ January 2026 edition, explores how turning points in life and work can open the door to deeper purpose and transformation. Hetty reflects on how “craxial moments” and crisis can become sources of hope, strengthening our capacity to choose, act and grow.
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What does Spirit mean for you?
Exploring how “spirit” can mean different things to different people, yet still speak to a shared human search for meaning and connection. Hetty reflects on how a sense of spirit brings purpose, hope and contribution into our everyday lives and work, and why reclaiming it matters in our restless, disconnected world.
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Podcast: Awakening Conscious Leadership
In this roundtable conversation, Hetty joins Nathan Blair and Marcus Stone to explore what conscious leadership requires in these chaotic times. Together they reflect on purpose, authenticity and the shift from spectacle to substance in a culture hungry for deeper meaning.
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