A strategic learning partner to thriving organizations and communities.
We believe in the potential of people and collectives to be continuous in their learning, curiosity and creativity to enable innovation and impact.
How we work.
We coach, advise, and partner with social purpose, innovators, organizations, collectives and government. We build capacity to learn, re-imagine systems, create organizational resilience, challenge assumptions, and increase the flow of experimentation and learning based on these three core beliefs:
Relationships
Everything starts and ends in relationship. We believe relational approaches to working, culture building, convening and designing services is the way forward no matter what we face next.
Complexity
The challenges we face as a society are complex. With innumerable actors, interests, and causal factors interacting in many ways. Learning to work in ways that enable connection and build on positive emergence is the how of impact.
Innovation
Change is constant. Expanding our capability for blending curiosity, creativity, and rigour is necessary if we are to to maximize our human, social and public systems’ capacity to experiment, learn and adapt creatively.
4 Regenerative Practice Areas
Deliberate Relational Engagement
Everything starts and ends in relationship. You cannot create real change in isolation. Organizations have long spent time building strategic plans that focus on transactional doing. Until we make the move to listen deeply and be accountable the way we make decisions we cannot make the move to transformational relating. Cultivating a curious mind and building trust with people is the foundation for making meaning and change together. Relationships foster an authentic connection that becomes the foundation for future effectiveness.
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We design conversations that honour diverse knowledges and ways of being and create a sense of connection and belonging.
We help people connect with their unique leadership presence, clarify and evolve leadership narratives and archetypes, calibrate your team’s gifts and integrate them into organizational culture
We build leadership capacity for purposeful engagement, systems insight for grounded decision-making, action integration for effectiveness.
Catalyzing Culture
Doubling down on a solution that’s worked before only reinforces the boundary lines of well-intentioned negligence. Authentic relationships based on a sense of shared purpose, trust and belonging mobilizes cultural participation. In order to create and innovate, we first need to catalyze new patterns, rituals and rhythms of thinking and acting together. We dive deep into dialogue that maps, designs and curates a culture for learning and building a way forward that invites authentic engagement.
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We map and set up collaboration structures that enable reciprocity, generosity and trust;
Mobilize large scale engagement and designed conversations for inviting change.
Build coalitions and harness collaborative approaches for shared purpose.
Collective Sensemaking
Complexity is a strategic opportunity to create new knowledge and cultivate a more inclusive understanding that transcends individual perspective. No one leader has the answer for the complexity we face. Sensemaking is about creating space for listening, reflection and the exploration of meaning beyond the usual boundaries, allowing different framings, stories and viewpoints to be shared and collectively explored.
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Dialogue, conversational leadership and designing engagement for different ways of knowing that transform mindsets, problem frames and include diverse worldviews.
Facilitating deep listening and earn legitimacy through relational engagement
Understanding drivers of systemic inequity and centring historically underrepresented groups
Building communities of practice and research for emerging insights
Collaborative Action Learning
When people are committed with a shared purpose, are relationally aware and have the freedom to be curious and creative, there is a deeper sense of ownership, accountability and desire to drive change. We work to reconcile people through safe spaces that promote connection and conversation. Action learning is about cultivating mindsets and skill sets for experimental iterative approaches that allow us to evolve through a process of continued learning, and innovation that maximizes a systems’ capacity to learn and adapt.
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Develop capability for thriving in constant and unexpected change, and catalyze community and team.
Piloting new things iteratively and adopting an experimental, iterative mindset and skillset.
Build capacity in with your team and organization to work with expanding awareness, deeper inquiry and complexity capable action.
