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A Leadership of Refusal: Remaking the narrative of the falling leader
My latest article with Emma Bell and Sheena Vachhani has just been published in the British Journal of Management. Read it here: ·Bell, E., Sinclair, A. and S. Vachhani (2024) ‘A leadership of refusal: Remaking the narrative of the falling leader,’ British Journal of Management.
Article: Quieting the Inner Critic
Learn 4 strategies for quieting that 3am inner critic. Published in IMD.
Article: Five movements in an embodied feminism: A memoir
Amanda provides a very personal account of how her feminism has been formed over ‘five movements’ and 3 decades. ‘I show how my material situations, physically-felt struggles and embodied encounters with others, especially women, wrested – sometimes catapulted – my precarious self-identification as a feminist.’
Article: Containing, contesting, creating spaces: Leadership and cultural identity among Australian Indigenous arts leaders
Drawing on the experiences of 29 Australian Indigenous artists and arts leaders, Michelle and Amanda identify 3 categories of identity practice through which the artists deliver leadership: contesting essentialism; containing trauma and creating belonging.
Article: Traditional midwifery or ‘wise women’ models of leadership: Learning from Indigenous cultures
This article explores Indigenous practices of midwifery or ‘wise women’ as crucial domains of leadership over millennia and across cultures. Four principles of midwifery leadership are identified: being a leader who empowers with ‘no one person wiser than the other’; embodying wisdom and ethical practice which nurtures social, cultural and spiritual needs of women; being skilled as well as emotionally attuned; and paying attention and being responsive to emergent change and unfolding present reality rather than being prescriptive.