shared leadership

No one, except your team, sees the meetings, shared notes, or quiet compromises—but they feel the outcomes: community, consistency, safety, and belonging. The invisible work is the real work that builds trust and community.

When leadership stops being something granted and becomes something grown, the culture of a school shifts. In our final years at the Western Academy of Beijing, our team gave up our individual spaces, blurred the lines between roles, and built a community office where every voice mattered. That’s when shared leadership stopped being a structure—and became who we were.