I believe in the Power of Place
I help leaders see place differently - as a living partner and as a compass for leadership and strategy.
The Shift – New Demands on Leadership
Leadership is changing.
The familiar playbooks of growth targets, control, and compliance no longer fit the complexity of the places we serve.
Public sector leaders, agencies, and not-for-profits, with responsibility for place, are at the centre of this shift. You are being asked to deliver outcomes that reach far beyond traditional performance metrics - community vitality, cultural continuity, ecological balance, and long-term legacy - while still being judged by the measures of a different era.
That tension between new mandates and old metrics has become the defining challenge of modern leadership.
Your work has moved beyond just managing programmes or delivering outcomes. It’s now about stewarding places - aligning people, policy, and place around a shared sense of purpose and long-term vitality.
That’s the work I call Strategic Stewardship, a practice for helping leaders hold orientation in complexity and lead with clarity, care, and conviction.
What I Do
I speak at conferences.
I convene retreats in extraordinary places.
I facilitate strategic discussions within teams and across sectoral agencies.
I coach senior leaders and leadership teams.
If that speaks to you, let’s have a conversation.
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Return to the Burren
In 2026, I will host a retreat in the Burren, a landscape that has shaped me and continues to nourish, challenge, and surprise.
This retreat will be a rare space for senior leaders to step away from daily demands and into a setting that opens perspective. The Burren has a way of slowing time, stripping back noise, and creating the conditions for deeper reflection and conversation.
Return to the Burren is an invitation to experience that otherness - to pause in an extraordinary place, see differently, and return to your work renewed, with clarity and courage to lead through place.
Keep me updatedMeet Tina
For more than 15 years, I’ve worked with leaders and communities in tourism, environment, culture, and rural development, always through the lens of place. Today, I support public sector leaders and boards to bring place back into focus as the anchor for radical collaboration, meaningful connection, and lasting change.
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