Butterfly Theories

By Anne-Marie Parent

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Description

AmpedUp Field Notes Podcast explores what leadership requires in complex human systems, with a particular focus on health care.

Health systems are not machines to be optimized. They are living, relational systems shaped by people, power, history, and uncertainty. Yet we often try to lead them using command-and-control logic, linear planning, and technical fixes. The result is frustration, fragmentation, and unintended consequences.

This podcast examines a different approach.

Drawing on systems thinking, complexity science, and leadership research and grounded in real examples from the health sector. Each episode connects theory to practice. We explore how leaders can shift from fixing parts to strengthening relationships, from certainty to learning, and from individual authority to collective capacity.

Like the AmpedUp Field Notes Substack newsletter, this podcast is reflective and practical. It asks hard questions about why traditional leadership approaches fall short and what it takes to create the conditions for more sustainable, human-centered solutions.

This podcast is for anyone who influences systems from executives, to clinicians, managers, consultants, policy makers, and social change makers. Leadership is not about title. It is about the conditions you create for others to think, adapt, and solve problems together.

Episode Date
1. Relaunching as AmpedUp Field Notes
Feb 17, 2026