A living leadership framework for holding power with care and clarity.
Developed through real engineering leadership practice in teams, systems, and moments where authority, capacity, and responsibility meet.
Consentful Leadership is about leading without defaulting to domination.
It’s about power that is examined and negotiated, not assumed.
About authority held with clarity rather than force.
About building systems people can actually be human inside.
It asks what leadership feels like in the body, not only what it produces, and treats care and sustainability as core design constraints, not personal extras.
This work is grounded in lived organizational leadership: feedback, scope, conflict, repair, and the quiet moments where harm is either reproduced or interrupted.
Consentful Leadership is shaped by multiple traditions that help us understand power, relationship, responsibility, and care more clearly.
to name and disrupt the inheritance of domination
to rethink feedback, scope, and authority as negotiations, not ultimatums
to slow down, feel more, and find leadership through the body’s wisdom
to honor fluidity, presence, and liberation that doesn’t fit strictly defined categories
to build cultures of access, pacing, and interdependence, where no one has to mask or burn out to belong
to center listening, learning, and repair when harm has occurred
Consentful Leadership is not a finished method or a universal answer.
It is a living practice — shaped through real relationships, real constraints, and real responsibility. The ideas here are tested in the work itself and shared as field notes from a practice in progress.
It’s not about perfection. It’s about presence.
It’s not about productivity. It’s about possibility.
We want leadership that feels healed and soft in a world that teaches us to squeeze tight or disappear entirely. This is leadership from the margins, for the margins, and for better futures and better worlds.
If this way of thinking about leadership resonates, you’re welcome here.
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