Visionary Leadership through the Lens of Celtic Wisdom

with Owen Ó Súilleabháin

What does it mean to lead from the unseen?

In this soul-rich conversation, Owen Ó Súilleabháin joins host Megan Chaskey to explore leadership from a place of reverence, imagination, and deep attunement to natural cycles.

Drawing from his lineage, artistic practice, and work in leadership development, Owen speaks to the Celtic understanding of seasonality, the power of visionary leadership in times of change, and the vital role of synchronicity and story. From the oak forests of Ireland to the shifting seasons of Western New York, he brings a perspective both ancient and timely — offering a path of leadership rooted in humility, relational intelligence, and love.

This episode touches on:

• Visionary leadership
• Organizational dynamics and cultural renewal
• The wisdom of Celtic awareness of cycles of change
• Synchronicity, art, and the symbolic dimension of transformation
• Leadership as a tender, sacred responsibility shaped by inner truth

We close with a Shaker song Owen sings — a reminder that love is both the guide and the pull of the unknown.

In this episode, teacher, and leadership guide Owen Ó Súilleabháin invites us into a deeper rhythm of leadership—one rooted in ancestral wisdom, nature’s cycles, and the call of the unseen horizon.

Owen shares stories of his father’s visionary impact on Irish cultural education, the soul of Celtic timekeeping, and the courage it takes to create something the world cannot yet see.

“A visionary leader takes an organization somewhere no one can see—it doesn’t exist yet. It's over a horizon. Nobody knows exactly where it’s going.”

Through myth, metaphor, and synchronicity, Owen draws connections between nature’s timing and our inner seasons—offering a vision of leadership that is relational, intuitive, and attuned.

“Trying to harvest in winter won’t work. Each season has its wisdom. The work of the leader is to know what time it is.”

We explore the sacred pulse of life through Celtic eyes, where love and mystery guide action, and silence itself can hold a leadership role.

“Love doesn’t know where it’s going. That doesn’t mean it’s not real—it means it’s humble, tender, and true.”

This is a rich conversation for those longing to lead with presence, precision, and poetic vision.

“Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” — Rumi

Thank you so much for listening.

I trust something in Owen’s words opened insights for you.

When he spoke of the oak tree—“rising in the darkness before the world can see,”

and of visionary leadership that “roots in stillness, in what the world cannot yet see”—

we can hear a deeper wisdom in that timing.

A rhythm already alive in us, often unnoticed.

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by tuning into natural cycles—subtle, ancient, deeply supportive—

and discovering how they can guide your choices, especially in times of change.

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I’d love to invite you to explore further through a short private audio I created:

Hidden in Plain Sight: Your Luminous Timing.

🎧 You can listen for free by signing up at https://bit.ly/4jITf1x

Or, ready to go deeper on a regular rhythm?

Let’s take the next step together—an opening to a new way of listening.

The rhythm continues in Your Luminous Timing—a private podcast guiding you every two weeks with lunar insights and timing cues to help you move through your life with clarity, creativity, and intuitive precision.

I invite you to join my series here

https://bit.ly/your-luminous-timing