Creative Leadership Field Guide

In the wake of transformation, one of the most powerful gifts we can give is a story—one that welcomes others forward, holds complexity, and imagines what is possible. With that in mind, we are thrilled to share the Creative Leadership Field Guide, a digital tapestry of Masters of Art in Creative Leadership (MACL) alumni work, wisdom, and experimental practices.

This Field Guide is not merely a showcase. It is a living map, crafted for those who lead—and for those who aspire to lead—with empathy, imagination, and integrity. It offers vignettes of what creative leadership looks like in practice, reflections on challenges, and frameworks to lean into when uncertainty presses in.

What the Field Guide Offers

• Stories from alumni and practitioners: real accounts of shifts, risks, failures, resilience, and breakthroughs.
• Practices you can try; tools, methods, and prompts that invite readers into action.
• Possibilities for reimagining leadership: essays exploring systems, culture, purpose, and new directions for collective change.

Recent features include reflections on climate and art, relational leading in changing ecosystems, and essays on creativity, crisis, culture, and conscience.

Too often, leadership models are described as tactics or checklists. This Field Guide grounds leadership in the lived, messy, imaginative terrain where art, justice, and community intersect. It affirms that leadership is not a polished posture, but a continual process of learning, unlearning, listening, and reimagining.

For MACL alumni, this becomes a connective archive: a place where your journey is honored, your insights shared, and your experiments witnessed. To prospective students and allies, it opens a window into what creative leadership can be—not formulaic, but generative, relational, and evolving.

How to Use the Creative Leadership Field Guide

1. Read a story, then pause. Let the narrative linger. Which parts surprise you? Challenge you?
2. Try one practice. Even small shifts—like a prompt, reflective pause, or relational experiment—can open new space.
3. Contribute your own piece. The guide grows through community participation. Your questions, reflections, or experiments matter.

We invite you—students, alumni, colleagues, and community partners—to explore the Creative Leadership Field Guide. May it be a companion in your journey, a mirror for your questions, and a spark for what’s next.