Who We Are
Understanding organisations through the people who work in them.
Common Path Connection is an organisational development consultancy working across culture, leadership, change and organisation design.
We help leaders and teams understand how people’s experiences connect with the roles, relationships and pressures shaping their work.
Together, we turn that understanding into practical changes and review what happens as they are put into use.
Our Story
Common Path Connection grew out of experience across frontline practice, leadership, education and organisational development in complex organisations and public services.
We saw how much people cared about doing good work, and how difficult organisational life could make it. Carefully planned changes struggled to take hold. Familiar problems returned. Competing demands pulled people away from the work they were trying to do.
Making sense of these difficulties meant paying attention to formal responsibilities alongside what happened between people. Who felt able to challenge? Whose agreement carried weight? What did people expect would happen if something went wrong?
We created Common Path Connection to bring these questions into practical work with leaders and teams. We explore different experiences, test our understanding together and help people address the conditions keeping difficulties in place.
Our name reflects that commitment
Finding enough common ground to work through differences and take the next step together.
What you can expect
Careful attention
We take your situation seriously, listen to different perspectives and explore what the initial explanation may leave out.
Constructive challenge
We bring observations back in plain language and make room to examine difficult questions. We invite you to challenge our thinking too.
Practical focus
We connect reflection with changes that fit the work, the people involved and their capacity to act.
Shared understanding
We explain our reasoning and develop the work with you, so you can use what you learn beyond the engagement.
Working together
A clear purpose
We agree what the work needs to address, who should be involved and how we will review its usefulness.
Relevant perspectives
You help us understand the context and hear from the people whose experience matters to the work.
Room for reflection
We ask for willingness to consider different explanations, including how familiar responses may contribute to recurring difficulties.
Support for action
Together, we clarify what can change, who can authorise it and what support is needed to put it into practice.
Meet the Consultants
Jamie Hahn
Leadership development, learning and the experience of working under pressure.
Jamie brings clinical, education and programme leadership experience to his work with leaders and teams. His focus includes psychological safety, evidence-informed practice and how people learn in demanding settings.
He explores how expectations, identity and uncertainty shape behaviour, alongside the practical conditions in which people are asked to lead. This helps teams consider how they respond to concerns, work through difficult situations and support learning in everyday practice.
As an educator and programme lead, Jamie makes complex ideas accessible. He helps people connect reflection with practical changes, clarify what they are trying to achieve and review what they learn as they put new ways of working into use.
Andrew Pigott
Understanding organisational patterns and helping people work through them.
Andrew brings experience across frontline public services and organisational development, including work on culture, engagement, leadership and complex change.
He explores how policy, organisational pressures and working relationships connect with people’s everyday experiences. His work pays particular attention to roles, authority and the points where responsibility passes between people or teams.
Through careful listening, questions and facilitation, Andrew helps people examine differing perspectives and discuss issues that have been difficult to address. He supports leaders and teams to clarify their choices, identify where action is possible and develop practical changes they can test in their own work.