Name: Shift: Everyday Actions Leaders Can Take to Shift Culture
Author: Meredith Wilson
ISBN: 9780645912401

Culture Creates Capacity

Leading Culture with Meredith Wilson. Fortnightly insights and practical shifts for leaders who shape, shift and scale the culture that creates capacity.

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Navigating Re-entry

The suitcase is unpacked. The map is still open. I started writing this email at an airport in Croatia, bags packed, boarding pass open, about to begin the long trek home. There is a particular feeling that arrives at the end of a trip. You stand in a departure lounge with a head full of things ...

Jul 30, 2026 culture leadership travel

Why Most Culture Change Fails

Most culture change efforts are designed to fail. What if the approach guarantees it? Leaders announce a culture shift, a program gets designed, workshops roll out, and posters go up. The posters have a longer half life than the commitment. Twelve months later the organisation is roughly where...

by Meredith Wilson — Jul 16, 2026 culture leadership shift

The Workplace Renaissance

I've been thinking about the disruption the Renaissance emerged from. In the early 1400s, Europe was reeling. A pandemic that had reshaped the labour market within living memory. Institutions splitting into competing factions. Economic structures collapsing. A new technology about to change who ...

by Meredith Wilson — Jul 08, 2026

What the Medici knew (a letter from Florence)

Hello from Florence. Following a conference in Slovenia, I'm taking the opportunity to do one of the things I love most in one of the parts of the world I love most. Wandering. Wondering. Sitting in front of something five hundred years old and let my mind go quiet for an hour. I have to confe...

by Meredith Wilson — Jun 25, 2026

The Room Before the Stage (a note en route to Salzburg)

I am writing this somewhere over the world, on my way to Europe. First stop Salzburg, then a conference week in Slovenia, then on to Italy and Croatia. Ahead of me is the thing I love most. Wandering and wondering. Sitting and soaking in front of something centuries old and letting my mind pla...

by Meredith Wilson — Jun 11, 2026

Culture Creates Capacity

Every organisation has a strategy for growth. Most also have a strategy for talent, for technology, for market positioning. Very few have a strategy for the thing that determines whether any of those others will actually work. Culture is the operating environment in which your strategy either ga...

by Meredith Wilson — Mar 24, 2026 culture leadership shift

Capacity is Cumulative

December often arrives with a deep sense of fatigue. By this point in the year, you've likely navigated shifting priorities, persistent demands, and constant decisions. Many of us are craving rest, though wrapping things up can still feel out of reach. How we end the year shapes how clearly we b...

by Meredith Wilson — Dec 17, 2025 creating capacity

Shifting to Capacity

November often marks peak overwhelm. End-of-year deadlines multiply, meetings become relentless, and demands intensify. For many leaders, the thought of summer is a lifeline - a chance to recharge and recover fully after sustained effort. Yet rest doesn’t have to be something we simply collapse ...

Nov 13, 2025 creating capacity

When Boring is Better

By October, leadership energy often drifts. Urgency rises. Important work risks being crowded out by the noise. Add to this mix, the frictions in our teams become frustrations and fractures as people's patience wears thin. Maybe you're feeling this yourself? It is tempting, especially now, to le...

by Meredith Wilson — Oct 16, 2025 creating capacity culture leadership

Small Shifts, Big Capacity

Spring naturally invites us to clear away clutter. At home, it's straightforward - we sort, discard, and simplify our physical spaces. Yet leaders rarely apply the same practices to our own habits, routines, or practices. Leadership can easily accumulate cluttered thinking, overly complicated ro...

by Meredith Wilson — Sep 18, 2025 creating capacity

What is your culture up to?

Culture is always up to something. You may not have asked it to be, but it is. It shapes what people prioritise. It influences how decisions get made. It affects who speaks, who waits, and what happens next. Organisational culture is not a backdrop. It is a system. It moves through our language,...

by Meredith Wilson — Aug 21, 2025 culture leadership shift

Why Readiness Can’t Be Rushed

The start of a new financial year arrives predictably busy. Plans fill calendars, objectives are refined, and teams scramble to realign quickly. Leaders frequently feel pressure to demonstrate progress swiftly, pushing for immediate outcomes. Urgency appears productive, even necessary. Yet often...

Jul 03, 2025 creating capacity leadershift

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Culture Creates Capacity

Leading Culture with Meredith Wilson. Fortnightly insights and practical shifts for leaders who shape, shift and scale the culture that creates capacity.

Culture Creates Capacity

Leading Culture with Meredith Wilson. Fortnightly insights and practical shifts for leaders who shape, shift and scale the culture that creates capacity.

Connect with Meredith

Culture Creates Capacity

Leading Culture with Meredith Wilson. Fortnightly insights and practical shifts for leaders who shape, shift and scale the culture that creates capacity.

Stay connected with Meredith