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Why Purpose Is Not Enough for Organization Transformation

The time for organizations to transform — their business, their people, their systems — is now. Businesses large and small have traditionally struggled with organizational transformation. There is a significant emotional investment required to transform, not to mention a lot at stake. But organizations have neglected the deep personal impact that transformation has on people’s […]

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Shift Happens – Turning Lessons Into Opportunities

The past year has been strange and challenging. The business communities have been under a new level of stress and trauma. We are only now starting to heal. Even though these are challenging times, we have seen leaders and teams showing up for each other time and time again. There were many how-to workshops, most of them free, […]

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Opening Dialogue During Difficult Times

With everything going on in the world, it makes sense that stress levels are high. We carry that stress from our family life to our work meetings and back again. What if there was a way for you to help your teams relieve some of that stress without the backlash of differing opinions on how […]

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3 Tips To Deliver Effective Feedback

Feedback is a crucial part of any business. It comes whether you want it to or not – so best to be ready and available for it right? A regular, reoccurring feedback system helps individuals, teams, and the company as a whole. It helps teams stay alert, connected, focused on the big picture, and in […]

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Two Investments You Want to Make In 2021

All the leaders we talked to in 2020 shared one thing in common…they learned a LOT through hardship. But none of them fell apart; their businesses survived even though there were many challenges and difficult decisions to make.  Learning from the past paves the way for creating a bigger, bolder future. “So often in life, […]

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Bridging Leaders To Future

“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” When Buckminster Fuller uttered these words, he knew that leaders would need to be inspirational, visionary and bring a creative mindset rather than being reactionary to the circumstances. Over the past couple of months, we have dedicated our energy to supporting leaders and […]

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#CreationLeadership – A guide for Transformational Times

The massive transformations already underway in our world will require a whole new level of leadership. We summarized some of our teachings around this new kind of leadership in our “Introduction to #CreationLeadership”. It is meant to serve as an introduction on how we now need to approach creating reality: embodied, with emotional and cognitive […]

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Why Purpose is crucial for Intrapreneurship

“We would have quit a long time ago if this was a normal company project,” he said and looked at me with pride. He was one of a group of intrapreneurs we supported through an intrapreneurs bootcamp for one of our clients. His team had picked quite a challenge to work on, a challenge that […]

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The Future of Talent — Selecting, Developing and Engaging High-Potentials in a Shifting Organizational Context

Entrepreneurs have become the heroes of current business lore, and many companies realize that they need more entrepreneurial spirit in their organizations and future talent pools. But not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur. It would be foolish to think that you can turn all of your employees into entrepreneurs. Most people are […]

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Meaning not Mechanics — A human approach to Organizational Transformation

Businesses large and small have traditionally struggled with organizational transformation. This is not surprising. There are two major factors contributing to these struggles: Organizations have mostly focused on the mechanics of transformation instead of the meaning Organizations have neglected the deep personal impact transformation has on people’s lives and the significant emotional investment that is […]