About this episode

Julia Felton explores regenerative leadership through lessons from nature, emphasizing the importance of relationships in organizations.

In this Impactful Teamwork episode, Julia Felton explores what nature teaches about regenerative leadership, inspired by adopting a lamb named Charlie and observing Canadian geese offspring. Using Yellowstone’s trophic cascade, she explains how removing wolves collapsed ecosystem relationships and how reintroducing them restored balance—paralleling how organisations remove key relationships and then wonder why performance collapses. She critiques extractive, command-and-control leadership that fuels silos, poor collaboration, CEO bottlenecks, and change fatigue, citing data on business failure and cross-functional unity. Drawing on lichen and horse herds, she highlights interdependence, rhythm over relentlessness, and relationships as infrastructure, and outlines three regenerative leader behaviours: investing in relationships, building “teamship,” and leading with attention. She also identifies sabotage patterns: extraction disguised as standards, busyness as avoidance, and mistaking compliance for commitment, and invites listeners to connect via businesshorsepower.com. 00:00 Teamwork Advantage 00:47 Nature Inspired Leadership 01:53 Yellowstone Regeneration 04:07 Extraction…

People in this episode

Host: Julia Felton

Topics covered

• regenerative leadership
• nature-inspired leadership
• organizational performance
• interdependence
• teamship
• leadership practices

Keywords

• regenerative leadership
• ecosystem balance
• teamwork
• collaboration
• leadership behaviors
• business failure
• interdependence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: businesshorsepower.com

Places: Yellowstone, Canada

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