With the GSA Institute of Design Innovation’s Flourish project, we wanted to help give voice and presence to ‘invisible communities’ by engaging with them in a collaborative, codesign approach, drawing on resources such as storytelling, informal interviews, photography and film. We also used this approach last year in our work as the creative partner for the Scottish Leaders Forum (SLF) – a network of leaders at the heart of public services who meet to discuss and collaborate on the important policy issues facing Scotland. This second issue of Flourishing Times addresses the theme of Creative Leadership: the recognition that the creative capabilities of an organisation are its primary energy and material of innovation.Creative Leadership encourages people to work ‘beyond their job spec’, to take risks and accept failures in an ongoing process of organisational growth and development. For the GSA Institute of Design Innovation, Creative Leadership in an increasingly participatory democracy will address equality, the economy, and public services in the context of a flourishing Scotland.