QUICK TALKS - Joining with Gold: The Art of Kintsugi

Written By Derek Hill

In this short talk, we explore the 500-year-old Japanese art of Kintsugi - where broken pottery is repaired with gold - and how it offers a powerful metaphor for leadership, growth, and resilience.

Rather than hiding cracks or mistakes, Kintsugi invites us to see strength, beauty, and wisdom in imperfection. Through this lens, we reflect on how leaders can build trust, empathy, and belonging by embracing failure as part of learning, deepening relationships through openness, and creating space for difference and creativity.

This is a brief invitation to reframe difficulty, see possibility instead of blame, and discover how we can all begin to “Join with Gold.”

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Derek Hill
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