Today’s guest is Hannah O’Rourke, Acting Director at Labour Together.   

When talking with Hannah, I appreciated how she acknowledged that there are many effective ways to create. Hannah’s approach is to create spaces where people can come together behind a shared purpose in order to create and implement new ideas and new actions.

Hannah shares that her role is not to lead but to facilitate so that others can create leadership for themselves.  She shares that through her work she often brings together groups of people with very different starting points and potentially have very different views on the world and change. She helps them to identify a shared goal and build relationships based on trust and connection – rather than focusing on what divides and separates them. By doing this the relationships endure and enable different groups to come together to bring about system change