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Dr. Kathy Allen

@drkathyallen.bsky.social
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Consultant and coach helping people create meaningful change using Nature as a model. *LivingSystems*RegenerativeLeadership*AdaptiveCycles

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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Continuing my series on "sleepwalking" at work, I explore the link between how we define leadership and the relationships in our organizations. Those relationships can either engage employees or make them tune out. bit.ly/464QynN
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The Link Between Leadership and Employee Behavior - Dr. Kathy Allen
How mindless obedience or sleepwalking at work impacts leadership and employee behavior, and ways to initiate a shift in mindset.
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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🌱 “Weeds are nature’s revolution against the rule of the machine.” —Vandana Shiva
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Often, when employees sleepwalk at work, it's because our leadership habits have encouraged them to just "go through the motions." I talk about 5 ways we create conditions for employees to disengage: kathleenallen.net/insights/5-w... #leadership #regenerativeleadership
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5 Ways We Reward Sleepwalking at Work - Dr. Kathy Allen
Learn ways organizations unintentionally or on purpose create conditions that reward sleepwalking at work.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
There's a myth in leadership that things would be easiest if employees followed directions without questioning, resisting, or thinking for themselves. But encouraging employees to sleepwalk—just go through the motions—comes at a cost. I explore this on my blog: bit.ly/4li3H0V #leadership
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The High Price of Sleepwalking at Work - Dr. Kathy Allen
Learn how the cost of employees sleepwalking at work takes a significant toll on leaders and the entire organization.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A fundamental, holistic change is necessary for businesses to contribute to a sustainable future: bit.ly/3HYbcfe During this transition, leaders must adopt regenerative leadership approaches to achieve a lasting impact. #regenerativeleadership
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We need to fundamentally change the relationship between business and nature – but how?
Explore how businesses can transform their relationship with nature through nature-based solutions and institutional change.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Amanda Sturgeon, Biomimicry Institute CEO, deeply knows biophilic architecture. Now she helps innovators embrace biomimicry. In this interview she shares her perspectives: bit.ly/3FVrmpb Just as we can build biophilic structures, we can build organizations with Nature as a mentor and muse.
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Emulating Nature’s Strategies with Amanda Sturgeon
How biophilic design can remember what the modern world forgot.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
An article from the World Economic Forum New Champions summarizes the case for more #regenerative leadership practices. In an era defined by disruption, leaders must navigate complexity, confront uncertainty, and prepare for an increasingly volatile future. Read the insights: bit.ly/44EGXSr
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
"The climate crisis is not only ecological—it is emotional, somatic, and relational." - John Dass bit.ly/40dtcIG Nature shows us that regeneration depends on each part of the ecosystem showing up in the right condition to thrive as a whole.
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Capitalism, Climate Change & The One Skill We All Need To Thrive
How mastering our nervous systems is the missing link between inner regeneration and outer systems change
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I've recently explored the shift from a VUCA to BANI worldview, but The Regenerative Futurist presents an excellent case for reframing VUCA to stop out-of-control spirals of anxiety and remain resilient in disruptive times. bit.ly/3HKS7wU #regenerativeleadership
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Live Lecture Recap: Rethinking How We Navigate Crisis
Key skills to thrive in the Age of Revolutions—transforming Work, Learning & Being
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Friends in the UK, this is a wonderful opportunity to build a nourishing and calming habit of sky-gazing while contributing to bat conservation. (If you missed my post about the value of lifting our eyes to meet Nature, you can find it here: kathleenallen.net/insights/hor... )
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Regular check-ins also give employees the opportunity to ask questions, contribute insights, and raise concerns. Healthy organizations are like living systems, and no living system could survive without communication.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
In uncertain times, many leaders seek firm answers and fixed strategies. But #regenerative leadership emphasizes relationships and capacities over control. I talk about the BANI lens and how leadership must respond to tension and transition with purpose and connection: bit.ly/45a9v8a
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Strengthening Regenerative Leadership in a BANI World
Embracing undervalued resources for resilience.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
When disruption is constant, how we begin approaching change is critical. Nature teaches us the importance of choosing "starting points" that align with how life actually works. I explore how we can thrive even in uncertainty if we start in the right place: bit.ly/43WFCGa #naturewriting
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6 Starting Points for Regenerative Leaders to Consider
We're living in a time when our traditional systems are breaking down. This is happening in many ways— economically, socially, politically, and environmentally.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
When we treat organizations like machines, we remain in mindsets of control and hierarchy. Humans are a part of Nature, and we need to reflect that in our organizations. Giles Hutchins offers an excellent visual representation of this mindset shift: bit.ly/45SRtrc #regenerativeleadership
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Cultivating a Future-fit Organization amid Rising Complexity
With so much change in the air, what’s the best way to cultivate organizations that succeed amid rising complexity? This IS the question of the moment. As when we cultivate future-fit organizations, we allow our places of work to come alive and our people to thrive.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Do we find courage, or is it always in us? When we know our "line in the sand," we know when we must act, even if we fear the consequences. That is when our courage shines. In my blog, I explore summoning courage in disruptive times: bit.ly/4l0Tx4G
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Finding Our Courage - Dr. Kathy Allen
Dr. Kathleen Allen explores the topic of courage, including when we know it's time to act based on our values and principles.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“Many, many years of evolution have gone into trees figuring out how to suck CO2 from the atmosphere and lock it into carbon stores, so it’s ready to scale now.” Time we started treating nature as our most powerful ally, instead of an enemy or just a 'resource'. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Win-win’: new maps reveal best opportunities for global reforestation
New study shows regions with best potential to regrow trees and suck climate-heating CO2 from the air
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Sustainability and climate actions across the U.S. are changing fast. Join us 6/17 for a free conversation led by Verdis Group's Principal & Chief Century Thinker Daniel Lawse. We’ll dig into what’s happening and the adaptive cycle framework to navigate disruption. kathleenallen.net/conversation/
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Dr. Kathy Allen - The Conversation
The Conversation In this monthly conversation, global experts lead interactive discussions on regenerative leadership, living systems, interdependence, and topics critical to leading organizations suc...
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The Yurok Tribe never gave up their fight for the Klamath River. Their story is a powerful reminder of what’s possible when we listen to the land, follow Indigenous leadership, and restore relationships. It's true inspiration for a #regenerative mindset. bit.ly/4kB2guH
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These stunning photos show how nature came back after the world’s largest dam removal project
Four dams and three large reservoirs were removed from the Klamath River in a project that finished last year. Acres of native wildflowers are now in bloom along the river’s edge.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
When we value interdependence, trust, and cooperation in our communities—just like Nature does—we succeed in creatively solving complex challenges. Thanks to @myzerocarbon.org for recommending this excellent article about community-led, nature-based climate solutions: bit.ly/449liS7
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Involving communities in nature-based solutions to climate challenges leads to greater innovation, study shows
Involving communities in nature-based solutions to tackle urban climate and environmental challenges leads to innovation and multiple benefits, a study shows. Participation of citizens in NBS projects...
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Friends in the United Kingdom, this is a wonderful opportunity for leaders to connect with the common goal of sustainable business.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Bees are excellent teachers. We can learn about resilience from their adaptability despite colony collapse, climate change, and habitat destruction. This story in Emergence Magazine reminds me how bees show us what it means to persist amid loss. bit.ly/3H8XR3s
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Telling the Bees – Emily Polk
Bees have long been witness to human grief, carrying messages between the living and the dead. Finding solace in the company of bees, Emily Polk opens to the widening circles of loss around her and an enduring spirit of survival.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
#Regenerative leadership is difficult to define. It isn't a single framework, but a living, evolving practice. This article in the Regeneration Journal ia great overview framing leadership as stewardship that's not ego-driven but "eco-system aware." I love that term! bit.ly/4jnicPG
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Regenerative Leadership: What the World Needs Now – REGENERATION JOURNAL
In thistime of permacrisis—where climate breakdown, economic inequality, democratic erosion, cultural fragmentation, and war crimes converge—we recognize that the systems and leaders governing our lives are failing to serve people and planet. The pursuit of narrow, extractive self-interest has corrupted our institutions, deepened divisions, and eroded trust. We stand at a crossroads: continue down the path of collapseorregeneratethis world we share – our Common Home.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Nature is an excellent guide to complexity. It invites us to observe seen and unseen relationships within its ecosystems—to immerse ourselves in the natural world and notice. Then, we can apply what we learn to our own complex systems. bit.ly/3ZBTe88 #NatureWriting #RegenerativeLeadership
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Seeing Connection in Wholes - Dr. Kathy Allen
Dr. Kathy Allen invites us to look at Nature as a system of connection in wholes that helps us thrive in complexity.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I'm thrilled to share the recording of this month's Regenerative Leadership group conversation with Marti Spiegelman. Marti guided us on an in-depth exploration of the Indigenous understanding of consciousness and the experience of being fully awake and connected in our times: bit.ly/4kiMDrI
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The Conversation - Assembling Your Reality, Making Your Presence Matter - Dr. Kathy Allen
Marti Spiegelman joins our Regenerative Leadership group once again for another deep dive into the indigenous understanding of consciousness and the experience of being a fully awake and connected human in our times.
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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Here's the recording from today's #MasterClass on "Regenerating Communities, Restoring Ecosystems #ecosystemrestorationcommunities #ecorestorationalliance @jonschull.bsky.social - please enjoy the wonderful talks (skip ahead to intros+talks from 22:18 if short of time). fathom.video/share/X537uu...
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Nature offers a vast symphony of sound that pulls us away from the agitation and anxiety our man-made soundscapes provoke, and settles us into calm and presence. I recently wrote about the benefits of immersing ourselves in natural sounds: bit.ly/3H5FyvP
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Living With Nature's Soundtrack - Dr. Kathy Allen
Learn how living with Nature's soundtrack invites us into the present moment and lures us away from our need to be busy constantly.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
In #regenerative #leadership and life, Nature is our greatest mentor and muse. "Across various animal kingdoms, nature's strategies provide fascinating insights for modern-day leadership." - Learn Biomimicry Here are 10 leadership lessons we can learn from Nature: bit.ly/3FhXzGO
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10 Leadership Lessons We Can Learn From Nature
Let's take a step back and look at biology with fresh eyes, asking: What lessons can I learn, and how do I apply them to grow my leadership skills? Here are 10 leadership lessons learned from nature.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Leading from a place of service mirrors natural principles of interconnectedness, creating an ecology of trust and connection within our organizations.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
In this month's Regenerative Leadership call, consciousness expert Marti Spiegelman will guide us through Indigenous wisdom on assembling a reality that fuels creativity, well-being, and makes a life-positive difference. Join us May 20th at 1pm CT free on ZOOM: bit.ly/43lrNAM
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Dr. Kathy Allen - The Conversation
The Conversation In this monthly conversation, global experts lead interactive discussions on regenerative leadership, living systems, interdependence, and topics critical to leading organizations successfully through our rapidly changing times. This is the home of our popular Regenerative Leadership monthly session, which began in March of 2020. Upcoming Sessions Join The Conversation Launch Zoom Get notified […]
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
One of my grandfathers taught me that everyone should spend at least 15 minutes daily looking at the horizon to gaze beyond our day-to-day lives and see greater possibilities. I practice horizon gazing every day. Here are the reasons why: bit.ly/4kpHDRP #NatureWriting
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Horizon Gazing Expands Our View - Dr. Kathy Allen
From stress relief to fresh perspectives, horizon gazing gives us many benefits. Explore them through the lens of Lake Superior's North Shore.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
What a beautiful view. It's worth making time to enjoy the sights and sounds of Nature. These landscapes and soundscapes pull us away from the need to always be "doing" and into a restful state of simply "being."
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Science shows trees synchronize electrical signals during a solar eclipse. We also know animals respond to these events. Light and dark deeply influence billions of Nature's organisms. Now we have more evidence of how plants participate in their ecosystems: bit.ly/4jCqG6B
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‘A living collective’: study shows trees synchronise electrical signals during a solar eclipse
During a solar eclipse in a forest in Italy’s Dolomites region, scientists seized the chance to explore a fascinating question.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Nature's #regenerative design banks on deep diversity. I pair this with another of its principles: it rewards cooperation and synergistic relationships. To model this in our organizations, we need to dive deeper into diversity in business and life: bit.ly/42J28CX #NatureWriting
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Exploring Deep Diversity - Dr. Kathy Allen
Dr. Kathy Allen examines the connection between deep diversity and resilience and why deep diversity goes beyond DEI initiatives.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Like any other species in Nature, we need nutrients. To thrive with resilient, evolving minds and hearts, we need life-affirming nutrients like trust, kindness, connection, safety, learning, curiosity, and purpose. bit.ly/4maHrYn #NatureWriting #Resilience
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Psychological safety nurtures resilience through soft skills like trust and empathy—skills Nature mastered over billions of years. Leaders discover psychological safety in Equine Assisted Learning. They work with horses to witness the power of empathy and trust. Learn more: bit.ly/4jZ4rHU
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Unleashing the power of horses for leadership
Equine-assisted learning transforms leadership development. This article discuss how and why this approach works with world experts Lissa Pohl and Ginny Telego.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
How does Nature see injustice? The Biomimicry Institute notes that in Nature, there are consequences for infringing on another species' rights. Nature values accountability, and we should follow its example. Read their analysis of natural systems of justice: bit.ly/4lVBtKA #NatureWriting
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#biomimicry #naturerights #interspeciesethics #morethanhumanworld… | The Biomimicry Institute
🌿What if we looked to nature to understand rights? If rights are trulyinherent, they aren’t granted—they simplyare. So how does the natural world recognize and respond to violations of those rights across species? Biomimicry offers a compelling framework: In nature, when one species infringes on another’s right to life, liberty, or even happiness, there are consequences—social costs, warnings, avoidance, and even collective defense. These responses suggest a kind of natural accountability system. Could these interspecies dynamics guide how we think about laws and ethics that include more-than-human communities? When humans alter ecosystems and suffer the fallout, are we simply experiencing nature’s version of fair penalties? And if so—what might it look like to learn from those signals and shift our behavior accordingly? Exploring natural systems of justice could help ensure that our human frameworks for more-than-human rights are not only principled, but also intuitive, consistent, and deeply rooted in the...
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
AYuTe Africa explores the shift from VUCA to BANI in a world that feels increasingly Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, and Incomprehensible. bit.ly/3GBuLt9 We need "soft" skills now: empathy, mindfulness, and flexibility. Nature can teach us, if we follow its lead.
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Instability as a Norm: Navigating a BANI World
In a rapidly shifting world, uncertainty is no longer an exception—it’s the rule. This video explores the transition from VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) to BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible) and what it means for leaders, businesses, and societies. How do we adapt and thrive in an era where instability is the new paradigm?
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A powerful, unflinching essay on what we've lost as we've become increasingly disconnected from Nature and natural life. With thanks to its author @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social for this important, impassioned exploration, and to @amyjanebeer.bsky.social for sharing it. bit.ly/4jxAMph
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Tall fences, old trees | Caught by the River | Caught by the River
Starting on the common of his childhood in North Wales, Eben MyrddinMuse walks through Welsh landscapes public and private — and ponders connection, access, enclosure, and community.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Joining the #Naturebookchallenge A book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature, environment and conservation books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #ecology #booksky
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I invite anyone interested in regenerative leadership and how Indigenous understandings of consciousness can shape our modern lives to a free Zoom call on 5/20. Marti Spiegelman will share guidance for creating a reality that benefits us and the world. Details: kathleenallen.net/conversation/
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Dr. Kathy Allen - The Conversation
The Conversation In this monthly conversation, global experts lead interactive discussions on regenerative leadership, living systems, interdependence, and topics critical to leading organizations suc...
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
"In the regenerative paradigm, complexity is not a problem, it is a source. It is where life unfolds. It is where emergence becomes possible." Véronique Letellier wrote an excellent article on complexity and #regenerative #leadership that I recommend: bit.ly/3GagiEd
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
My new eBook, Following Nature's Lead, invites leaders to embrace Nature's principles and let go of outdated systems in our fast-evolving world. Learn about using Nature as a model, mentor, and muse in #leadership and in our lives: bit.ly/3EkzIpx #regenerativeleadership
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Dr. Kathy Allen - eBook: Following Nature's Lead
A new eBook from Dr. Kathy Allen Following Nature's Lead helps regenerative leaders use Nature as a model, mentor and muse.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Friends in Britain and Ireland, this new app looks like a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with Nature, and learn about the natural world around you.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Where human ingenuity and Nature meet, amazing feats happen. Drone #reforestation plants up to 1 million trees per day, distributing seeds evenly across large areas to maximize growth potential. If we work with Nature instead of against it, we thrive together. bit.ly/3FZNoXx
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Nature always knows what to do without being told. It has billions of years of experience sustaining life. What if we modeled our inner world on natural ecosystems and understood our mind's ecology? The Mindful Wellness newsletter explores the possibilities: bit.ly/3G2aaOl
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Inner Ecology: Treating Your Mind Like a Living Ecosystem
Your thoughts, emotions, and habits aren’t problems to fix—they’re nature unfolding inside you.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Jax's Gen2200 living system map for integrating the cyber and the natural world into a plan for a sustainable future is deeply interesting. Her "eddies"—regenerative energy, relational flows, and operational outputs—form a strong foundation for Nature-inspired leadership.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Power changes our thoughts, feelings, brain structure, and chemistry. Societal shifts exaggerate these effects, creating unnatural challenges for #leadership and organizations. Here's how it happens: bit.ly/3FSSTqT A living systems mindset counteracts these changes and keeps us grounded.
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How power changes leaders
Power can enhance our strengths, but it also amplifies our weaknesses. For leaders, those aspects inevitably cascade onto their people.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Nature has survived and flourished for billions of years through principles and systems that protect all parts of the whole. When we stray from these roots, we suffer from imbalance and inequity across our organizations and our societies. Poverty is a symptom of unnatural leadership.
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
If Nature has a voice in our businesses, we benefit from its billions of years in R&D. Researchers have created a framework for making Nature a stakeholder: Nature as inspiration Nature as adviser Nature as director Nature as shareholder Learn more about each role: bit.ly/43XBlUf
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How to embed Nature as a stakeholder in your business
Embedding nature as a stakeholder in your business could allow you to better fulfil your ESG obligations, directors’ duties and sustainability reporting responsibilities. But how does it work?
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Dr. Kathy Allen @drkathyallen.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
How does Nature coordinate the incredible way sea turtles hatch together? National Geographic revealed the intricate choreography. It is a story of intense collaboration designed for survival. Our organizations would thrive with such deeply interconnected teamwork. bit.ly/4hIB8aR
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#biodiversity #nature #climatechange | Oliver Dauert | 57 comments
Did you ever wonder how sea turtles manage to hatch simultaneously? This clip shows it. 💡 Another fun fact about sea turtles: Temperature determines… | 57 comments on LinkedIn
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