Clean Language for Leading Change
Six non-leading questions that surface how your team actually feels about change, before resistance hardens. Includes a sample conversation and the traps to avoid.
Resources, writing & tools
Practical things you can use today.
There's nothing more frustrating than naming a problem without naming a way through it. Everything here is built around practical application: essays, free downloads, and tools you can put to work this week.
Writing
Essays on coaching, systems, and slow change.
Personal, intellectually curious, and honest: the writing is the clearest signal of how Erin actually thinks.
Jul 2026
Leadership
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Jul 2026
What Clean Language Teaches Us about Leadership
Leadership
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Jul 2026
Three Reasons to Make Metaphor a Leadership Habit
Systems Coaching
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Jul 2026
Dunbar's Number, or the Care and Feeding of Human Connection
Coaching
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Jun 2022
Finding My Blindspots, or the Painful Truth of Admitting My Own Biases
Systems Coaching
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Who's Got the Monkey? How Healthy Boundaries and Responsibility Help You Help Yourself
Free downloads & tools
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90-Day Clean Leadership Goals Worksheet
A guided, fill-in worksheet that uses your own words and metaphors to set a 90-day leadership goal, name what needs to happen, and mark your 30/60/90-day checkpoints.
Five Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
The five small, repeatable habits Erin sees most in the leaders she coaches, each with a simple "try this week" step you can start on right away.
Interviews & media
Conversations & appearances.
Where Erin has shown up to talk about systems, coaching, and the work of change.
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Listen →From agile bones to systemic work
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