Emerging Insights, 12 June 2025
What if your greatest leadership move… was saying less?
Let’s be honest – leadership these days can feel like a lot.
Too many demands. Too much noise. Not enough space to think, let alone lead with clarity.
Because here’s the big WHY:
If we want more agile, creative, and connected teams – we need quieter, more intentional conversations.
And if we don’t make that shift?
We stay stuck in recycled thinking, old habits, and blind spots we can’t even see.
But if we do?
We unlock something different.
Something powerful.
Something that lasts.
Let’s explore.👇
🌀 The Art of Quiet Conversation
Let’s go a little deeper …
Leadership right now isn’t just challenging – it’s relentless.
You’re navigating constant complexity.
You’re expected to lead change, inspire performance, foster culture – all while juggling shifting priorities and competing demands.
And beneath it all?
A constant pressure … to know. To solve. To drive outcomes – fast.
But what’s the cost of all this doing?
▶️ People stop thinking for themselves.
▶️ Teams lose trust, clarity, and energy.
▶️ Creativity flattens.
▶️ Collaboration turns to compliance.
▶️ Organisational agility? Slows to a crawl.
And here’s the quiet truth…
You can’t coach, lead, or collaborate powerfully in an environment that’s overrun with noise.
What if the most powerful thing you bring to a conversation… isn’t what you say, but the space you create?
The Art of Quiet Conversation is not a tactic.
It’s a shift in presence – a way of leading that invites:
🔹Thinking over telling
🔹Listening over fixing
🔹Space over pressure
This is what creates cultures of agility. This is what unlocks team ownership, resilience, creativity, and trust.
🎥 In this short video, I offer a quiet provocation – an experience of what it feels like when we lead less with noise, and more with intention.
Not by adding more to your leadership toolkit – but by refining what’s already there…
Presence. Curiosity. Space.
Just 5 minutes.
One simple shift. A different way forward.
🌱 The Payoffs and the Cost of Not Shifting:
When you create space instead of control:
✔ People think deeper – not just react
✔ Teams become more self-organising – not dependent on direction
✔ Conversations grow honest and impactful – not circling in the surface-level
✔ Energy flows, ideas breathe – instead of burning out
✔ Cultures become adaptive, human – not trapped in old patterns
So take a breath. Make some space.
And join me for 5 minutes that just might change the way you lead.
🔗 Watch this video and explore a different kind of conversation.
Then ask yourself:
👉 What kind of space do I create around me – and what might become possible if I made it just a little wider?
Now, here’s something to sit with…
What if the real work of leadership isn’t about having the answers – but about making space for the answers to emerge?
Because in the end, it’s not the noise that moves people – it’s the presence we bring to the moment.
So here’s my question to you:
What kind of space are you creating around you – and what might become possible if you made it just a little wider?
Let’s talk. Share your reflections, drop a comment, or reach out if this resonates.
See you in the quiet.
With gratitude,
Mike
P.S.
Sometimes, the most profound shifts begin not with action – but with space.
Because what we don’t transform… we recycle.
“Mike Schwarzer’s book, ‘VANTAGE POINT: cutting through the bullsh*t of a complex world,’ serves as both the torch and compass that illuminate the way and guide us as we step into uncharted territory, embark on new explorations, and pioneer innovative paths.
”Gabriella Sprott, Director & Co-Founder @ ShowMe Exchange, Australia
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About Mike Schwarzer
Mike is a Transformation Facilitator and Learning Leader who is passionate about helping leaders and organisations to solve the problems that they have not been able to solve elsewhere.
He works with the underlying mental, behavioural and deeper innate dynamics that drive people’s and organisations’ thinking and actions. He creates and holds the space where they learn how to tap into their inner and outer capabilities in transformational ways and lift their perceptual abilities to see their world, its problems and emerging solutions with fresh eyes.
At the organisational level, Mike’s approach challenges the status quo and hierarchical thinking. He takes you into the world of living ‘open & adaptive’ systems and their self-organising nature. From there you will be able to create a workplace culture that naturally draws from the collective wisdom of all its people and that is highly adaptable to the changing winds of a complex world.
For more information about Mike visit www.mikeschwarzer.com.