LUNAEOS Literacy™ Governance • Institutional Systems • Organisational Dynamics

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Explore Dr Laurin Friedrich’s book, essays and talks on organisational culture, governance and the relationships

Dr Laurin Lilly-Laona Friedrich
Author, independent researcher and speaker

Making sense of organisational life.

A decision can look entirely reasonable in one room and become difficult to live with in another. My work explores what happens between those positions and what it means for the people trying to make an organisation work.

I bring more than a decade of experience inside international corporate environments, primarily in regulated financial services, and a PhD in international copyright law. Through writing and speaking, I help make the relationships behind organisational outcomes easier to recognise, question and discuss.

The Signals of Organisational Misalignment: Reading Drift Before Business Systems Break

Productivity Press / Routledge · Forthcoming November 2026

How does an organisation begin to drift while people are still working hard to hold it together?

This book explores the small adjustments through which meaning and responsibility shift in everyday work. It offers a language for recognising what formal indicators can miss: the atmosphere in a room, the effort absorbed between roles, and the distance between an instruction and what it takes to carry it out.

It invites readers to look more closely at the organisations they inhabit and at their own part in how those organisations change.

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Reasonably Complex
A monthly letter by Dr. Laurin Lilly-Laona Friedrich

What makes a promise believable? Why can progress feel like loss? And when is changing our mind a sign that something is going right?

Each month, I connect current affairs with ideas from economics, psychology and philosophy to explore how we understand the world and shape our lives together. These are questions at the heart of LUNÆOS - with room for curiosity, unexpected connections and the occasional raised eyebrow.

I welcome invitations for keynotes, podcast interviews and panel discussions.

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I bring organisational theory into conversation with the situations people recognise from their own working lives.

Topics include:

How the same concern changes meaning between roles and teams.
The human consequences of apparently reasonable organisational decisions.
Responsibility and judgement when the rules leave room for interpretation.

Each conversation begins with the audience and the questions worth examining together.

The Thinking in Writing & Research

LUNÆOS is the body of work I am developing around a question: what happens as formal expectations are interpreted and acted on by different people?

It explores how their responses reshape the conditions for everyone else.

The book, essays and research approach this question from different positions. They offer ways to notice more, distinguish between explanations and keep assumptions open to reconsideration.

My professional publications examine how governance and regulation are interpreted in practice, including the distance between visible controls and their effects on everyday work.

My ongoing research follows a related question: how does meaning change as people interpret expectations together, and how do those changes reshape an organisation?

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