Lead in the Present Toolkit

What this is

A way of seeing, not a checklist.

Something is always happening beneath the surface. You can read the strategy. You can follow the plan. And still, something in the room resists, deflects, or moves sideways. This course gives you language for that something.

It draws on five frameworks from the systems psychodynamics tradition, a body of work developed at the Tavistock Institute that sits at the intersection of psychoanalysis, group relations, and organizational theory. The frameworks do not tell you what to do. They tell you what is happening. What you do with that is the part only you can determine.

Who it is for

Leaders and senior managers who sense that organizational behavior cannot be fully explained by structure or incentive alone, and who are willing to look at what is happening beneath the presenting problem.

Coaches and L&D practitioners who want interpretive lenses for coaching conversations, team diagnostics, and leadership development programs.

People in transition: new to a role, navigating change, or carrying more of the system's weight than feels comfortable.

Five frameworks. One integrated picture.

Module 01 The Leader as Container Holding anxiety, making meaning, enabling change.
Module 02 The Unseen Hand How unconscious dynamics shape leadership behavior.
Module 03 Identity and Identification How the past lives in leadership.
Module 04 The Liminal Condition Growing through threshold states in role and organization.
Module 05 The Next Horizon Dilemma Transforming while sustaining: the double task of change leadership.

Each module closes with a project piece. The five pieces assemble into your Leadership System Map: an integrated picture of the five layers of your organizational reality.

Access

Two ways in.

Course only

€199

Self-directed access to all five modules, readings, and the Leadership System Map project. Work at your own pace.

Get the Toolkit

Course + Coaching

€999

The full course plus a two-hour coaching session with Charles. Bring your completed Leadership System Map. Work the material against your actual situation.

Get the Toolkit + Coaching