Weekly Alignment

The permission was always yours. This is the weekly reminder.

A short letter, every Thursday. It starts with something ordinary, a book, a study, a moment you noticed, and uses it to point you back to the person underneath the role, the one who was never the problem and has nothing to prove. It reminds; it doesn’t advise. And it asks for nothing.

Every issue

• June 25, 2026Performance & Wellbeing▶Video

  Hands in the dirt

  An hour with my hands in the dirt, and the shoulders drop, the commentary goes quiet. A small noticing about the person underneath the role, the one who was never performing in the first place.

The Weekly Alignment is a short weekly email from James Powell, founder of humanKIND, a leadership coaching practice in Toronto. Each issue takes one thing from the week — a book, a study, a moment — and draws out a single reflection a leader can carry into theirs. Never more than a few minutes. Published in full at humankind.work.