We're living in an era of polycrisis—multiple overlapping crises that are exposing the fragility of our institutions and pushing mission-driven organizations and leaders to their breaking point.

Political instability, systemic injustices, environmental collapse, and public health failures are creating unprecedented demands on those dedicated to serving others.

This moment isn't just testing our capacity to respond to external challenges—it's revealing the deeper wounds within our organizations and within ourselves. In this space, we often hear about systems being broken—but they're not broken, they're doing exactly what they were designed to do: prioritize productivity and profit over people and extract compliance over conscience. Leaders across sectors are experiencing moral injury when forced to act against their values, institutional betrayal when the systems they serve prioritize power over people, and organizational trauma that cuts deeper than traditional burnout or compassion fatigue.

The old approaches to leadership and service—the ones that demanded we sacrifice our humanity for the mission, compartmentalize our values to maintain professionalism, and bear individual responsibility for systemic failures—are not only insufficient for this moment, they're part of what's breaking us.

What we need now is sacred resistance: the practice of staying connected to our humanity in the face of these challenges. It's about choosing presence over performance, values over conditioned responses, and collective care over the illusion that individual resilience can solve systemic problems.

My work supports leaders and organizations in developing the sacred resistance practices that make sustainable service possible—not just surviving this era of polycrisis, but using it as an opportunity to create the kind of cultures and communities we want to see in the world.