Field Notes
Insights, learnings, and reflections from the journey
Here you’ll find reflections, tools, and stories to support your leadership journey—from strategy insights and podcast episodes to thought-provoking questions and upcoming workshops.
It’s all designed to help you grow with intention, lead with clarity, and gather what you need—right when you need it. Looking for something different? Get in touch.
🌿 New on WILD Walks: Feedback and the Wind
For leaders exploring aligned action — moving from busyness to clarity through rhythm, reflection, and shared purpose.
WILD Walks: Aligned Action
For leaders exploring aligned action — moving from busyness to clarity through rhythm, reflection, and shared purpose.
WILD Walks: Locating yourself as a leader
For leaders noticing the energy they carry—and how it shapes the space around them.
WILD Walks: Climbing Back to Clarity
For leaders noticing the energy they carry—and how it shapes the space around them.
WILD Walks: Mangrove Wisdom
For leaders noticing the energy they carry—and how it shapes the space around them.
WILD Walks: Energy, Drama & the Echoes Around You
For leaders noticing the energy they carry—and how it shapes the space around them.
WILD Walks: The Wisdom of Dormancy
A guided walking meditation for leaders navigating emotional flatness and quiet seasons—exploring how stillness, too, is part of growth.
How to Prompt for Leaders: Tips for Gen AI (and Your Humans Too)
Discover how to unlock the true power of Generative AI by leading it like a team member. In this article, we explore practical tips for leaders to craft better prompts—by setting clear expectations, asking powerful questions, providing growth-focused feedback, and steering AI with the same energy, clarity, and curiosity you use to empower your people. Learn how to turn AI into a collaborative partner and elevate your leadership at the same time.
WILD Walks: Cooling the Hive - For leaders navigating urgency culture and unspoken expectations
Cooling the Hive is for the leaders who rarely pause—who move from task to task without noticing the emotional temperature they’re setting for their teams.
This 15-minute walking meditation uses the beehive as a metaphor for leadership culture, inviting you to shift from relentless production to intentional presence.
“You’re not just leading. You’re shaping climate.”
TRAIL MARKERS: Locating Yourself as a Leader
Trail Markers: Locating Yourself as a Leader
A short stop on your leadership path to pause, reflect, and reset.
This 10-minute mini workshop is a powerful entry point into the kind of reflective, practical leadership work we do at Gather and Grow.
For leaders ‘in the weeds’
If you hear yourself, or fellow leaders around you, say:
“I’m in the weeds.”
Then, it’s time for change.
The Leadership Ripple Effect
As a leader - everything you do, every action you take, every meeting you lead - has a ripple effect.