2026 Challenge

Hello I’m
Lisl Pulinger
Most of what I know about this work came from doing it, not from reading about it. The 100 Day Challenge is my way of making that visible.
Every entry is a fragment from the field: a question I could not answer cleanly, a principle I had to test against the real situation, a moment when the frameworks held and one when they did not. The people in situations in these entries are composite portraits, drawn from more than two decades of work across multiple engagements. No single entry reflects any one client, project or individual. I do not tidy it up after the fact. What you read is what I was actually thinking at the time.
That is the point.

Portrait 1: The Woman in Colour
She never blended into the boardroom. While the rest of the table arrived in navy and charcoal, she entered in colour — bold prints that refused to apologise for themselves. Turquoise against dark wood. Ochre against glass and steel. The fabric moved when she did,…