I have spent much of my professional life helping people lead, collaborate, and bring more humanity into their organisations. But over the past decade, something more profound has been calling for my attention. It has become clear that the challenges we face today cannot be understood or met through the lenses of leadership or organisational life alone.

They ask more of us than better strategies or better teams. They call us to step forward differently.

I am going to start writing about citizenship and sustainability because the world is asking different things of us now. Not simply efficiency or expertise, but presence. Not just consumption, but contribution. Not only growth, but stewardship.

For many people, citizenship has been reduced to compliance: follow the rules, read the news, vote when the calendar tells you to. Sustainability, too, is often framed as a technical problem for specialists to solve. Both have been made too small, stripped of the depth and imagination that could invite us into something more meaningful.

I want to help reclaim these ideas. Citizenship, at its best, is the practice of belonging to a place and to one another. Sustainability, at its best, is remembering that everything we touch has a future. These are not policies. They are stances.

We are living through a moment when systems feel strained, institutions feel fragile, and many of us feel uncertain about our role in shaping what comes next. Yet beneath the uncertainty lies a quiet truth: we are not spectators here. Every conversation, every act of care, every decision about how we use our attention and resources is a form of authorship.

I am drawn to citizenship because community is not something we inherit; it is something we create.

I am drawn to sustainability because the future is not something delivered to us; it is something we are already shaping through our everyday choices.

These two themes are inseparable. To be a citizen is to care about the Wellbeing of others. To be sustainable is to care about the Wellbeing of those who are yet to come.

My hope is not to offer solutions, but to spark a different kind of conversation: one that asks us to take responsibility for the quality of our presence in the world, and to imagine futures that are generous, not fearful.

I am writing because I believe people are hungry for agency, connection, and purpose.

I am writing because I believe small acts still matter.

I am writing because citizenship and sustainability are not abstract ideals; they are invitations. Invitations to show up, to pay attention, to choose what kind of ancestors we want to become.

And beyond writing, I am taking this into practice through volunteering and stepping more fully into service.

I offer these reflections not as answers, but as beginnings.

If any of this resonates, then perhaps we are already in the work together.