Your purpose extends beyond your own success. You may be improving lives, strengthening communities, advancing knowledge or a profession, protecting the environment, or creating public value.

You may be leading one organisation, representing an industry or profession, or trying to influence change across a sector. The scale differs, but the challenge is similar: meaningful change rarely belongs neatly to one function, organisation or issue.

Either way, significant change rarely stays neatly within established boundaries. Technology affects work. Regulation changes incentives. Funding shapes services. Social and environmental pressures alter expectations.

What appears to be one problem may depend on decisions and conditions elsewhere.

So the questions become:

• What is actually changing, and what is driving it?
• Where does the problem really sit?
• What else changes if we intervene here?
• What should we do differently, together or separately?

Neo Omelas works alongside people wrestling with those questions, whether the change sits primarily within their organisation or depends on action across a wider system.