Service
Connection
Connection
The essence of good leadership is service.
This means leadership that catalyses change to address pertinent issues for the good of all; including unborn generations and non-human beings. Not through glossy-performance, but through authenticity that welcomes diversity and embraces complexity.
Connection
Connection
Connection
Leadership is being aware and interconnected.
This means having awareness of, and being connected: to our ‘self’ and inner world; to other living beings; and to the natural world around us; and using compassion and empathy, to accept ourselves and each other, as an antidote to fragmentation.
Process
Connection
Process
The ends and the means are the same.
This means that in leadership we must have equal focus on the way we do things (the ‘means’) as we do on the outcome we are seeking to achieve (the ‘ends’). Actively modelling the change you want.
Justice
Connection
Process
We believe in social and ecological justice.
This means being courageous and compassionate to speak up and speak out about the many systems of oppression that play out around and through us. Applying critical thinking, bravery and hope to affect change.
OUR STORY
The Change (formerly Lucca Leadership) were a group of leaders called from many sectors who co-created transformational programmes in service of life. Sarah Poppy and Neel met, trained, and worked together with the organisation - until the volunteer trustees weren't able to continue their life-changing work.
But 15 years of expert design and delivery were not to be lost. At Schumacher college, SP and Rozi discussed an idea of a new collective, and 'Catalista' was dreamt into being - an active word to represent the new offering: those ready for change - by taking responsibility for their inner work in order to lead in the outer world.
SP and Tom met at a sustainability leadership training in Oxford; where they connected over new-economics and a love of Joanna Macy’s Active Hope work; it was from here that the four founders began to co-create…
The global pandemic paused things somewhat, and some offerings were re-designed for online, but in-person connection is what’s needed for much of this work. Today, the four founders work as freelance facilitators/coaches/mentors and collectively they come together as Catalista.
Rozalie (Rozi) Hilton
Rozalie (Rozi) Hilton
Rozalie (Rozi) Hilton
Rozi is an artist, mentor and facilitator who is passionate about awareness, authenticity and expression. Through an adventurous career in cultural activism; she enables connective-environments and playful exploration of our modern human condition.
With a background in performance, psychotherapy, and experience-design, she brings deep creativity and perspectives from thriving communities.
Neel Parti
Rozalie (Rozi) Hilton
Rozalie (Rozi) Hilton
Neel is passionate about enabling meaningful sustainable change through coaching, training, facilitation and collaboration. He works with emerging leaders and seasoned executives to inspire clarity, confidence and purpose. Promoting connection to self, other and the world is at the heart of his work.
With a background in social work he brings rich experience in empowerment and inclusivity.
Sarah Poppy Jackson
Rozalie (Rozi) Hilton
Sarah Poppy Jackson
Sarah Poppy is an experienced facilitator and coach enlivened by interconnectivity through ecotherapy practices, climate education, regenerative economics, land and water stewardship, and new paradigm leadership.
With a background in corporate marketing and sales alongside fundraising and events management in the public and third sector, she brings core insights to business leadership needs.
Tom Deacon
Rozalie (Rozi) Hilton
Sarah Poppy Jackson
Tom is an experienced and playful facilitator of workshops, training, outdoor learning experiences and wilderness expeditions. He values the art of listening and responding with curiosity and kindness, bringing these to the core of his climate and leadership work.
With a background in teaching, sustainability leadership and community organising he brings an ease of working at the creative edge across sectors and demographics.
