James Priest

James Priest helps leaders, consultants, coaches, and teams improve the quality of their collaboration, clarify what matters, and make more effective decisions, especially in complex or fast-changing environments.

He supports people in developing shared understanding, aligning purposeful action across scales, and responding adaptively to real needs, whether in day-to-day operations, strategic work, or organizational development. His approach helps teams uncover and clarify purpose, build more coherent systems, and evolve working agreements based on insight from their own experience.

James is a co-developer of Sociocracy 3.0 (S3), a flexible system of principles and patterns that underpin his approach, and a co-founder of the S3 Academy, where he designs and delivers learning journeys that combine practical support with deep systems insight.

If you’re working to strengthen collaboration, navigate complexity, or improve how your organization learns and adapts, James brings practical tools and partnership to help you move forward.