A non-linear manifesto.
Leadership Legacy (Wiley, 2026). Not a book to read cover to cover, three lenses instead: power, paradox, and presence. Cartography Is Not Home, the artistic research project underneath the keynotes, is the same thinking taken further.
Leadership Legacy
Wiley · January 2026 · 256 pages
I started writing this book before I understood what it would become.
It took shape during two years away from the public circuit, while I mapped what I had observed across twenty years of institutional practice. Leadership Legacy is not a conventional leadership book. Read one chapter at a time, reflect on the questions, and let each one change how you act before moving to the next.
The simplest technology is attention. Attention is not just focus. It is infrastructure. Where we place attention, systems form. Where we withdraw it, things decay. Attention is our oldest interface, the original technology of connection.
The book moves through five elements (Ether, Air, Fire, Water, Earth), each one a different domain of the question that has been at the centre of the work since 2017: what if intelligence is not something we possess, but something that arises through relationship?
Leadership Legacy feels more like a soul-searching conversation than a manual. It's not about being a boss; it's about recognising that leadership is a spiritual assignment to leave things better than you found them.Jacqueline · Amazon UK · April 2026
This book asks BIG questions: What do people feel when you leave the room? What systems do I not want to feed? What stories am I unconsciously repeating? Powerful unique research with indigenous and marginalised communities gives this book a fresh voice among other business and leadership books.Helen Gracie · Amazon UK · February 2026
This is no ordinary leadership read. From the first page I was hooked, and my mind was being provoked in all the best ways. Every page has a fresh perspective, fresh idea.Etwed · Amazon UK · January 2026
Brilliant, uplifting, creative, re-engaging the power of imagination. It brings a kind of integrity and wholeness right to the centre of leadership. Powerful and necessary.Abi · Amazon UK · January 2026
Leadership Legacy was always meant to be more than read. The questions it asks need a table to sit around, not just a page to turn. SOIL is where that happens, a series of intimate dinner salons that began as a way to make the book live.
Find out about SOIL →Cartography Is Not Home.
My central artistic research project, bringing ancestral intelligence, material science, and living systems into conversation. Surfacing publicly in 2026.
The core claim is that intelligence is material. It does not float above the physical world. It develops through specific physical conditions. The spider web is not a metaphor for the internet. Mycelium is not a metaphor for distributed intelligence. These natural systems existed first. Our technologies followed.
Ancestral material. DNA, bone, soil, mineral. The matter that carries decisions forward across generations.
Material listening. Turning birdsong into visible waveforms and spider webs into instruments you can hear. Studying how the body responds to material before words arrive.
Biological and digital systems coming together. Mycelium-printed structures. DNA sonification. Studying where grown and built structures become part of the same system.
"What if intelligence is not something we possess, but something that arises through relationship?"The central question, arrived 2017. Everything since has been one long answering of it.
I have carried out field research in Egypt, Guyana and Nigeria. I am an Honorary Fellow at Arts University Plymouth, where this research is ongoing.
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"The indigenous people asked permission of a body of water before entering it."From the Brazil Vision Quest, 2023 · The Ritual of Inherited Code