Hello, I’m Penelope Mavor, founder of Earth Converse.
My work sits at the intersection of inner development, relational leadership and planetary responsibility shaped by both lived personal experience and professional practice.
I bring over 30 years’ experience working with leaders, teams and organizations across sectors and countries. My background includes strategic planning, sustainability, leadership development, organizational change, coaching and facilitation in complex systems. I have worked with CEOs and senior leaders in diverse industries as well as entrepreneurs, change-makers and founders navigating growth and transformation.
How I understand leadership
Through my own leadership journey – and through working with thousands of leaders – I have come to see that leadership development centres around three fundamental leadership leaps.
At Earth Converse, I describe these as:
Leading Self — how you relate to yourself, your inner authority and your capacity under pressure
Leading Others — how you build trust, relationships and environments where people can thrive
Leading Big — how you relate to the wider system and lead in service of people, planet and the common good
These are not linear stages. They are ongoing thresholds that leaders and organizations encounter again and again as complexity increases and context changes.
Experience shaped by thresholds
My own growth has been shaped by many such thresholds.
They include graduating in sustainability to leading transformational leadership programmes with the United Nations; working as a freelancer, team leader and “tri-sector” practitioner across private, public and not-for-profit organizations; and living and working in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain.
My leadership practice is informed by long-term contemplative and embodied learning, including Vipassana meditation, wilderness-based vision fasts and guiding retreats with Original Intelligence®.
Alongside this, I bring a strong academic and professional foundation, including three master’s degrees – one of which is an MBA in International Business – and I am an ICF-accredited Professional Certified Coach (PCC).
From these experiences, I have weaved a whole‑systems, mindful, nature‑based, experiential and regenerative approach which keeps evolving.
Why Earth Converse
Earth Converse is itself an expression of Leading Big for me.
The name reflects a simple belief: that life is always inviting us into conversation – with ourselves, with one another and with earth that is our home.
The stirrings, tensions, challenges and insights you may be experiencing in your leadership are not problems to fix. They are often signals – invitations into the next leap of maturity, responsibility and contribution.
Earth Converse exists to support leaders and organizations to recognise those signals and respond with clarity, courage and care.
Let’s start a conversation about your needs
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