The Clarity Lounge ☕
Welcome to The Clarity Lounge, a space where I think out loud about organizational learning and development in its many forms. I write to explore how people, systems, and ideas shape the conditions for learning, leadership, capability, and performance.
Some pieces are polished. Others are clarity in progress.
All are grounded in curiosity about how organizations grow and how people contribute meaningfully within them.
Pull up a seat.
The Clarity Lounge Blog Roll
A Quick Thought on a Long-Running Debate in L&D
Where should Learning and Development sit in an organization? It is a familiar debate, but the answer is often simpler than we make it. If you expect L&D to operate strategically, align it strategically.Do not tuck the function deep inside an operational unit and then wonder why the work becomes reactive. Placement shapes scope. If…
Psychological Safety as a Common Good: Why We Must Stop Competing for It
Psychological safety is usually described as a shared belief that it is safe to speak up, ask questions, admit mistakes, or raise concerns without fear of embarrassment or retaliation. But in workplaces where the environment communicates scarcity, threat, or instability, psychological safety can start to feel like a limited resource that people must individually secure…
Building Systems and Conditions: The Hidden Work Behind Sustainable Change
When organizations talk about “doing things differently,” the conversation often jumps straight to programs, workshops, or new tools. However, sustainable change rarely fails because of a single workshop. It fails because we have not done the deeper work of building systems and conditions that make better work possible and livable. This post unpacks what that…
Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.
Dr. Treca Bourne 