From the blog….
Fresh thinking about connection,
collaboration and change
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The invisible myths that are keeping us stuck …
In my last blog I shared my view that, despite all the talk of change in organisations, little has changed in the fundamental ways we work over the last 30 years. In this blog I explore the obstacles that are getting in the way of us upgrading how we work together. Whilst the world of
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Change initiatives are stopping us from changing
As a consultant who works across a wide variety of organisations, I see a common pattern of busyness and overwhelm in workplaces. I have a hunch this is because of how we do change in organisations, and a theory that busyness is actually paralysing us, preventing change. I remember noticing this before the 2020 pandemic
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So much is being done in the name of change, and yet the fundamentals of how we work aren’t changing…
Much is being written about change these days – the need to change at pace, how to create transformational change, how to deal with change. One of the principles that underpins my Gestalt approach, is the paradoxical nature of change, it only happens when we truly understand what is going on in the present. When
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Is busyness and anti-change agent?
An invitation to join us in an exploration of busyness – from Katherine Handy-Woods and Rowan Gray It was a few years ago, in a catch up call, that we started to get curious about the busyness we see in the world. We were noticing the endemic of busyness across almost all our clients, across
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How can we work better together through uncertain times?
by Katherine Handy-Woods and Dr Gillian Shapiro INTRODUCTION This question is live for us as we work together supporting clients to develop strategies that will serve them well over the next 3-5 years, knowing that what happens in the wider business and social context locally and globally is…. well…. unknowable. It’s live for us as
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Community – what does it mean to you?
What does community mean to me? This is the question we will be exploring in our next community conversation. I was in my 20s when I became aware of how important community is for me. Since then I have tried many things in the name of community …. All these experiences have raised different learnings
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Leadership ~ liberating the leader in each of us
Following on from the last blog, in which I questioned our fixation on leadership, I co-hosted a community conversation about the topic of leadership with Jae Sloan. In this blog I share some of the things that stood out for me in the conversation, along with the many questions this conversation brought up. The leadership
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The leadership conundrum
We are fixated with leadership. Billions of dollars, pounds and euros are invested in leadership each year – finding, recruiting and developing the right leaders for today and tomorrow. Yet despite this, so much disappointment is being laid at the feet of leaders right now. Of course, the path of least resistance is to blame
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Changing the way we go about organisational change
As I look out over the slice of the business world I can see, I feel a sense of injustice at some of the work that is being done by consultants in the name of organisational change. The big consulting firms, McKinsey, Boston Consulting, Bain, KPMG, PwC, Deloitte et al, are propagating a version of organisational change
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Dying to talk – facing death, embracing life
Last week’s community conversation, Dying to talk – facing death, embracing life, went far and wide. What stood out for me was the sacred energy that formed as we connected in our mortal humanness. Death and dying impacts us all and so it connects us all, as humans. Many of the community have experienced loss,