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Welcome to the Relational Leadership Dialogue
Welcome to the relational leadership dialogue. Here you will find a series of blogs aimed at navigating the ethical dilemmas of relational leadership. Drawing on my book “Compassion in Disaster Management: The Essential Ethic of Relational Leadership” and other philosophical and scholarly works, I outline how we might reframe how to lead during crises. Crises that might be existential and overt, such as the climate crisis, or personal and covert, crises that the world cannot see but in which we experience as individuals.
The blogs are offered as a free resource to help you think about how you might enhance your own leadership style by drawing upon your inherent strengths of compassion, courage, and wisdom – often untapped strengths that exist in the consciousness of every human.
In using the resources, I ask one small favour – that you attribute them to this website. I firmly believe in the liberation of knowledge and also its attribution.
Introducing Relational Leadership
Leadership in crisis is often cast as the work of bold, steady figures who step forward in moments of chaos, offering direction, confidence, and protection. But in today’s world—where climate risks keep accelerating, crises overlap, and disasters more frequently push beyond our capacity to manage them—this traditional image simply isn’t enough. Add to that the growing pressure on citizens to be...
What Do We Mean by Relationship?
When we talk about relationship, we often imagine something personal—a friendship, a partnership, a deep emotional bond. But the idea of relationship is much broader and more fundamental than that. Relationship is ultimately about connection: the way one thing is linked to another, the way we influence each other, the way we are shaped by the presence, actions, and choices of others. Whether we...