THE HEARTWRIGHT · ISSUE NO. 03 Published Tuesday, May 26, 2026 · Bi-weekly · www.heartledleadership.org EDITOR'S NOTE Issue No. 02 closed with the Environment audit — the system is asking the person to absorb a structural cost someone, somewhere, designed in. We are moving from E to A. From the environment that produces behavior, to the alignment between what we say a system is for and what it actually does. Two other things in this issue. The promise from the very fir

THE HEARTWRIGHT · ISSUE NO. 04 Building recovery into the system, so capacity is actually possible. Published Tuesday, June 9, 2026 · Bi-weekly · www.heartledleadership.org EDITOR'S NOTE Issue No. 03 closed on integrity in motion — the gap between what we say a system is for and what it structurally rewards. We are moving from A to R. From alignment between stated values and actual behavior, to the resilience that determines whether the people inside the system can keep p

EDITOR’S NOTE A quick thank you to everyone who replied to Issue No. 01. The most common pattern in your responses was the same one I keep running into in advisory work — a behavior we'd been subtly attributing to a person, when the system around them was producing the same shape across multiple people. Issue No. 02 picks up the thread. We are moving from H to E in the HEART pillars — from Humanity, the people inside the system, to Environment, the system itself. — Lauren Mos

EDITOR’S NOTE Welcome. I started Heart Led Leadership because the leadership advice I kept hearing was almost all aimed at the wrong layer. Be more resilient. Be a stronger communicator. Build your own personal operating system. None of that is wrong, but almost none of it explains why high-performing teams (and more importantly, high-performing individuals) keep collapsing, again and again. This newsletter is the slower, more structural conversation. Every other week, I’ll s