Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

When artful leaders have space and support to connect deeply and are challenged to strategize and work together in new ways, possibilities light up at the intersections. We create conditions for this kind of connection, challenge leaders to strategize in new ways and support the emergent ideas and collaborations that arise.

In nature it’s more like we all get our day, our time. Nothing blooms 365 days of the year, someone told me that.

Science fiction is not fluffy stuff. Afrofuturism is not just the coolest look that ever existed. The future is not an escapist place to occupy. All of it is the inevitable result of what we do today, and the more we take it in our hands, imagine it as a place of justice and pleasure, the more the future knows we want it, and that we aren’t letting

I can see how everything’s survival is related to how it’s tuned into the space it occupies, its ability to notice, to be noticed.

seeing ourselves in a much longer arc of time than we are encouraged to see in the instantaneous culture of the modern world.

proliferating futures from a place of possibility, of multitudinous paths forward towards a shared dream.

the practices of collaboration and adaptation and transformative justice, are science fictional behavior. We didn’t create this understanding, we observed it amongst the afrofuturists and sci fi writers and creators we grew up loving and being liberated by. Language changes with time, and sometimes the word for a people or an action comes centuries

The more people who cocreate the future, the more people whose concerns will be addressed from the foundational level in this world.

The other tragedy of this quick narrowing is that people get left out, not just in a slightly hurtful way, but left out of how we construct every aspect of society, infrastructure and culture. We come up with incredible plans that don’t account for crucial segments of our communities—I’ve