Who We Are
We help leaders and teams combine systems-aware insight with practical design moves that organisations can run themselves.​
We bring thinking, feelings and the formal together so decisions get made, energy returns to the primary task and change lasts.
Our Story
Common Path Connection grew from decades in large, complex organisations and public services: frontline practice, leading change and transformation, designing education at scale, and executive-level organisational development.
We saw how well-intentioned systems drift from the primary task, and how big plans often fail to shift day-to-day work.​​​
We chose a different path.​ We pay as much attention to what happens between people as we do to structures and processes.
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We create a shared space where patterns can be seen, named and changed. Then we turn that insight into small, testable moves and simple artefacts that teams can keep using.
Our name reflects our aim.
Progress on common ground.
We focus on purpose-led businesses, system leaders and public services
where clarity, care and practicality matter most.
What you can expect
Sit beside, not above
We share the work with a named sponsor and stay close to the real teams.
​Name what is really happening
We make the unsaid discussable without blame so decisions stop circling.
Start small, learn fast
We design the lightest viable change, gather evidence, then scale only what works.
​​Leave you able to run it
Clear roles, decision paths, and cadences that survive after we step away.​
What makes it work
Visible executive sponsor
Someone with authority who unblocks issues and holds the thread across the system.
Access to the real work
The rooms where handovers happen, with voices from the front line as well as the steering group.
​​Openness over polish
Share the real picture so we can learn and improve it together.
​​Willingness to adjust rituals
Decision paths, stand ups, and governance may need to change so new behaviour can flourish.
Meet the Consultants
Jamie Hahn
Evidence-led leadership development, psychological safety and practical operating routines.
Jamie helps senior teams turn intent into confident leadership and measurable improvement.
He combines clinical and education experience with his doctoral work in organisational behaviour. Using systems psychodynamic approaches, he explores how anxiety, identity and boundaries shape behaviour in high-pressure settings, then designs ways of working that lower risk and build learning.
An experienced educator and programme lead, he makes complex ideas usable and coaches leaders to practise new habits on the job. He clarifies outcomes, defines who decides what, introduces simple speak-up routines and runs short learning cycles to track what is working.
Clients value his clarity, care and high standards.
Psychological safety, crisis response and evidence-based practice.
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Doctoral researcher in organisational behaviour, Nottingham Business School.
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Leadership development and programme design for public services, education and professional services.
Andrew Pigott
System sense-making, incisive questions and steady facilitation under pressure.​​​
Andrew helps leaders see the whole system and the lived experience.
Working with systems psychodynamic approaches and grounded in practice across public services and complex organisational change, he connects policy, pressure and people. He listens across sponsors and teams, maps critical handovers and accountabilities, and brings the right people together to try a practical change in real work.
He is known for reading dynamics quickly, asking the questions that unlock movement, and keeping the room steady when conversations are demanding.
Clients leave with clearer choices, stronger conversations and a route they can keep walking.​​​​​
Specialises in applying systems psychodynamic approaches.
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Culture, engagement and leadership across public services and private organisations.
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Programmes delivered at organisational and system level.