Maybe it’s not that you have too much responsibility — maybe it is that you’re carrying responsibility for the wrong things?

Insight

In leadership, many of us take on responsibilities from a contracted state:

“I must make others happy.”

“I must figure it all out myself.”

“I am responsible for every outcome.”

This mindset drains energy, creates pressure, and ironically makes us less effective.

The shift is not to abandon responsibility, but to re-anchor it in what is truly ours to hold. That’s the essence of grounded leadership from an expanded, generative state

Five Foundations of Inner Leadership 

below is what it looks like across the Five Foundations of Inner Leadership:

 👉 Next time you feel the pressure of responsibility, pause and ask: Am I holding what is truly mine — or carrying what belongs to others, or to life itself?

When responsibility is right-sized, leaders don’t collapse under its weight — they come alive in it.

Kirill Sivy and Philipp Haese from shiftspace and myself - have our first joint retreat on Inner Leadership based on the Five Foundations mentioned above:

 🗓️ 19–21 September | Berlin – message me, if you want to learn more.