Ideas grow when they're shared.
Sylva is built on a simple belief: the people closest to the work know things the organization needs to know.
Our thinking should be tested, challenged, shared and improved through conversations with people doing the work.
Sylva Insights is where we explore the conditions behind performance, frontline leadership, learning and capability, technology and AI, and what organizations can learn when they begin looking at themselves from the inside out.
Articles & Field Notes
Practical observations and ideas shaped by the work: why capable people sometimes struggle, why the same problems return, what friction can tell us, and what changes when organizations listen more closely to the people experiencing the work.
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Explore Articles & Field NotesConversations
Some of the best thinking happens out loud. Selected podcasts, interviews and conversations from Greg's career will be collected here as context for the ideas behind Sylva. New Sylva Conversations will be added as that platform develops.
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Explore ConversationsSelected Published Work
Greg has written and contributed to work on workforce development, onboarding, training, leadership and frontline experience over many years. Selected pieces will be collected here with clear attribution to the organization and context in which they were originally created.
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Explore Published WorkFrom expendable to essential.
Technology is changing work. Artificial intelligence will accelerate that change. But as technology becomes more capable, human context, judgment, experience, curiosity and proximity remain essential.
The future of work will not be built only by the people designing systems at the top. It will also be shaped by the people experiencing those systems every day.
More of the future will be built from the inside out.
Turn insight into capability.
Over time, ideas from the work may become practical resources: diagnostic questions, conversation guides, SHIFT resources, learning tools, research and other materials that help organizations apply what we are learning.
We will build those resources as the evidence and work justify them — not promise a library before it exists.
Keep the conversation going.
If something here challenges how you think about your organization, your workforce or the conditions surrounding the work, we'd like to hear what you're seeing.