Insights & Articles
Writing for leaders who care about people and performance.
This is where ideas at Praxa Strategies are given room to breathe. Here, we explore what it means to build workplaces that are honest, humane, and capable of holding both ambition and care.
You’ll find essays, reflections, and practical tools for leaders at the intersection of culture, power, ethics, belonging, emotional intelligence, and the everyday realities of work. These are ideas meant to be used, not admired: clear-eyed, evidence-informed, and grounded in how work actually feels.
This writing is for leaders who want more clarity and less theater. For people who care about how work shapes human lives, not just what it produces.
Explore the ideas that shape culture, leadership, and the future of work.
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We write about the quiet forces that shape how people feel at work. Culture is built in the small moments: who is welcomed, who is dismissed, who is allowed to take up space. These pieces name the truths organizations often avoid and imagine what becomes possible when belonging is treated as a practice, not a promise.
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Leadership is a choice we make again and again. It asks for courage, honesty, and a willingness to examine our own power. These essays explore what it means to lead with a steady heart, a clear voice, and a commitment to the people who trust us to do better.
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Systems are not neutral. They reveal what an organization truly believes about people. These pieces examine the structures that shape daily work: the clarity we offer, the burdens we hide, the fairness we choose or avoid. When we design with intention, systems become acts of care rather than barriers to it.
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Learning is how we grow into ourselves. It is messy, vulnerable, and full of possibility. Here we explore the practices that help people stretch, ask harder questions, and build the skills that make work more humane and more powerful. Growth is not a performance. It is a relationship with who we are becoming.
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Workplaces break. People hurt one another. Trust frays. These pieces explore the hard, necessary work of repair, the kind that requires truth telling, humility, and a willingness to begin again. Accountability, practiced with care, becomes a doorway back to integrity.
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The future arrives whether we are ready or not. AI and technology promise transformation, yet the evidence is clear that human-centered design remains the strongest advantage. These essays explore how we navigate a changing world without losing sight of the people at the center of it.
Data Storytelling as a Moral Practice
We are drowning in data and hungry for truth. Analytics can illuminate or distort, depending on the courage of the person interpreting it. Data storytelling is ethical work. It reveals our blind spots, our inequities, and the stories we would rather not face. The organizations that thrive will be the ones that center data ethics, responsible AI, and human-centered analytics as core leadership practices.
AI Is Managing People. HR Must Protect Them.
AI now manages tasks once overseen by humans, reshaping performance systems, workflows, and power inside organizations. This article examines the rise of algorithmic management, global regulatory pressures, and how HR leaders can safeguard workers by establishing clear oversight, transparency, and ethical governance.
Hybrid Work: The Gap Between Promise and Reality
Hybrid work was supposed to free us. Instead, it exposed structural gaps, inequities, and policy mismatches across global organizations. This article examines why hybrid models are collapsing in 2025, how return-to-office politics and proximity bias undermine trust, and what HR leaders must redesign to make flexibility work.
The Machines Are Not the Adults. We Are.
AI is accelerating faster than our ethics, and organizations can no longer afford to treat responsibility as an afterthought. This article explores how leaders can pair technological ambition with moral clarity and why the future of work demands mature, human-centered decision making.