Susanne writes regularly on leading through change, complexity, and pressure. Start with the pieces below, or subscribe to get her thinking as it lands.
The field guide, the diagnostics, the insights from the rooms she runs, the book and the writing all sit here.
The field guide
Five structural signals reshaping health, human and community services NGOs.
The field guide for NGO CEOs, boards and executive teams. What happens when funding, workforce, commissioning and technology pressures stop arriving one at a time.
Two short assessments, both complimentary. One reads your organisation, the other reads how you lead.
Susanne runs two rooms for senior leaders and chief executives in NGO health, community and human services. Each one produces a published document: the patterns in the room, the signals people are reading, and what they are taking into the next quarter.
When I was a manager leading enterprise bargaining for doctors, I got to attend the Cabinet Budget Review Committee and present our case alongside the Director-General. I had to respond to direct questions from the Premier and then influence the Under...
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All through high school, I spent Monday afternoons at speech and drama classes at Mrs Davis’s house. It was more than public speaking. We learned elements of performance, and we did improvisation. You were handed a small slip of paper with an idea or a phrase on it. You had one minute to think about...
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At the Professional Speakers Association of New Zealand convention in Auckland, Dr Samantha Rush and I ran a session for professional speakers from more than five countries. At one table, a player became very upset with the people learning as they went. They hadn’t read all the instructions themselves, so they couldn’t be confident that...
Read itShort pieces to camera on what Susanne is seeing, in leadership and across the sector.
Watch themConversations with executives, board directors and clinicians on what they do when the usual approach stops fitting. The series is paused, with a new one planned for 2027.
Open the archiveSusanne's book, written for leaders whose conditions keep shifting.
About the bookIf the complexity in your organisation isn't going anywhere, and you have less certainty than you'd like, that's ground Susanne has worked for thirty years.
Start with a conversation to find your team's way through.
