MAKE YOUR COMPLEXITY, YOUR SUPERPOWER.
CHANGE AND CULTURE CONSULTANCY SERVICES ROOTED IN
THE HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
Transform to perform in dynamic environments
Change isn't a question of if but a matter of when. Organizational systems are subject to constant negotiation between processes, goals and resources. Rusty processes (barriers) and limited resources (human and social capital) inhibit how organizations adapt to change and evolving market demands.
I like to think of adaptive capacity as predicated by proactivity and strategic resource allocation; in simple terms how well you adapt to changes is based on how often you've practiced adapting.
The Learning Laboratory is the training grounds for adaptability and combines the insights of a case study to uncover your organisational needs with theoretically informed applied games to empower teams to (1) collectively regulate their resources, (2) manage contextual barriers, and (3) stimulate diverse knowledge networks to maintain performance and agility in a dynamic environments.
Questions about how we can change roles, careers, interests and cultural contexts but somehow still feel like ourselves have always kept me up at night.
These questions led me to study identity during transitions and complete a PhD in Sport Psychology at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Specifically, my research drew parallels between athletes' retirement from sport and the contemporary world of work where individuals and organizations are plagued with constant changes and transitions.
Today, I translate that research into helping others understand change on personal and organizational levels.
We do not discover ourselves, we constantly make and remake ourselves.
The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, insomuch that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same.
Plutarch, Theseus