The Inside Out Collective
A newsletter for social work leaders who want to think differently about leadership, wellbeing and what it means to build a career that lasts.
Grounded in research, shaped by 35 years inside human services systems, and informed by what I am learnt through my Churchill Fellowship. Honest thinking about the work that matters most.
The Conditions That Make Advocacy Safe
If We Don't Advocate, Who Will?
You Don't Have to Lose Yourself to Lead Well
Sticky Feet, Not Glass Ceiling
Managing staff who are more seasoned than you
The Accidental Leader: How Do You Supervise Your Friends? (Copy)
Social Work Leadership: Why the Cohort Teaches What Curriculum Cannot
When did reflection start feeling like a holiday?
A question from the field that should trouble every organisation in this sector?
From the Field: Leadership identity, whose values are you actually leading from?
Four Principles That Kept Me Values-Aligned as a Social Work Leader (And Still Do)
Leadership Identity in Social Work: Early Findings from Global Research
Early insights into leadership identity in social work, exploring how aspiring and early-career leaders stay aligned with values, maintain wellbeing and remain in the profession.
The supervision gap nobody talks about.
Leading without social work supervision is not a personal failing.
It is a structural gap. And research supports that peers can help. Not just any peers, the right kind of peers. People who understand the terrain, who will ask the question your closest colleagues have stopped asking, and who give you permission to think out loud without having the answer first.
This fortnight's edition of The Inside Out Leadership Collective is about why peer connection may be the most underused resource in social work leadership, and how to find it when the organisation doesn't provide it.
Leadership Arrived Before Identity Had Time to Catch Up
It All Begins Here
Staying in the profession as a leader
It All Begins Here