‘Five Energies’ Change Leadership Framework
This work – founded in over 3000 years of ancient wisdom - uniquely brings together a deep appreciation for nature and some of its essential qualities, with an understanding for the sort of frameworks and tools that can work in a very practical way to support institutional and personal transformation.
To explore further, you might try this small experiment:-
i) Still yourself. Maybe close your eyes and breathe deeply for a short while.
ii) Now, simply allow yourself to be impacted by the 5 images in the bar above, and notice which image ultimately draws you most. Don’t agonise over this: make it a gut thing.
iii) Open the slide pack below – and match each image to one of the five energies described. (This should be very straightforward!)
iv) Now consider the descriptions under the ‘energy’ you were most drawn towards... It is likely that you were drawn to this energy either because it’s the one that’s strongest in you, or the one that’s weakest. Which is it?
v) Now use the diagrams in the slide pack and the accompanying paper below to explore the patterns underlying your strengths and weaknesses as a change leader. How do they relate to the ‘energies’ you find most prevalent, and most lacking, in your organisation? And what are the implications of this – for you, and for your colleagues?
vi) If this little process tantalises you – and perhaps provokes some interesting thoughts about your colleagues and/or your organisation – consider getting in touch to arrange a session, not just to deepen understandings, but maybe to deliver considerable change...
Download: Slide-pack: The ‘Five Energies’ Leadership Framework

Judi Marshall, Professor of Leadership and Learning, Lancaster University
Watch "Tall, Dark, Handsome and No.1" (12mins)
Footage taken from a half-day session with practising managers at Bath University Management School.
The Guardian
Tall, Dark, Handsome & No.1 – and the financial crisis of
October 2008:
PDF
Download.
Barack Obama: letter to a change leader: PDF Download.
