Exceptional, experiential, and empowering capacity-building programs that build highly effective changemakers within corporations (sustainability, ESG, inclusion, etc.), non-profits, foundations, government agencies, and networks—designed not just to develop mission-critical change leadership skills but also to accelerate purpose-driven projects and enhance collaboration.
“Supported us in bringing our global impact ecosystem to life.”
Head of Global Social Entrepreneurship, British Council
Key Benefits Of Our Changemaker Capacity-Building Programs
It’s tempting to think that sustainability teams, nonprofits, social enterprises, nature-based solutions projects, and change agents fail due to a lack of capital, resources, or technologies. This is a convenient fiction.
The root causes of failures to deliver on purpose are always a lack of leadership capabilities: empowerment, resilience, interpersonal effectiveness, influencing, storytelling, and systemic change skills.
Our capacity-building program for sustainability leaders, impact entrepreneurs, and institutional change agents takes high-value content from our corporate leadership programs and repurposes them for the added complexities of social and ecological impact.
As well as building mission-critical skills and helping accelerate and amplify initiatives, we can also include in a program specific interventions that nurture a (self-organizing) network of mutual support, peer-powered development, and collaborative change (particularly powerful if the cohort is made up of individuals from multiple CSOs, social enterprises, and non-profits).
Improve Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Regulation & Self-Awareness
Radically improve emotional intelligence, emotional regulation, and mood management so that your change agents can harness their positive emotions to broaden coalitions and grow their impact while they can also process their strong emotions (e.g., anger, righteousness, resentment) before they hijack the mission and generate tensions with colleague, collaborators and funders.
Develop Personal Leadership For More Self-Efficacy
Empower your change agents with a proven brain-based process for breaking through the outdated habits that sabotage them, diminish them, and detract from the mission and building new behaviors into habits that increase their efficacy as individuals, people managers, and community leaders.
Build Unshakeable Resilience For Sustained Impact
Help your change agents spot early warning signals of overwhelm, exhaustion, and burnout and take ownership of their own resilience so they unlock sustained impact and high performance—and help them design and execute a Personal Resilience Action Plan across nine pillars of resilience, from sleep to social connection, driven by their choice of 50+ evidence-based resilience-building activities drawn from recent research studies.
Improve Interpersonal Effectiveness & Relational Intelligence
Rapidly improves the interpersonal effectiveness of your change agents by helping them build more cognitive and emotional empathy, active listening and responsible sharing skills, and tools and practices for escalating tensions and reducing complaints friction, and stressors.
Unlock Change, Innovation & Transformation Mindsets
Unlock mindset and behavior upgrades in your change agents that unlock willingness and capacity to support and enact mission-critical change, transformation, and innovation activities and initiatives, ensuring they become fierce advocates and champions of change not resistors and detractors.
Build Coaching, People Management & Empowerment Skills
Help passionate change agents, often technical experts or proficient activists, develop critical skills in organizing people, managing effectively through boundaries, accountability, and guardrails, and empowering others through coaching skills.
Develop Ethical Influencing, Storytelling & Pitching Skills
Ensure your change agents can bring different kinds of stakeholders on the journey with you of change, social innovation, and impact—and support your ideas and innovation with funding and championing—through story scripts, structures, and tools that engage, inspire, and make change happen and ethical influence and persuasion techniques that inspire connection, collaboration, and support.
Accelerate Impact With Social & Sustainable Innovation Skills
Ensure your change leaders can maximize impact through the innovation of new policies, campaigning techniques, social innovations, green technologies, and regenerative business models by harnessing our highly tuned purpose-driven yet disruptive innovation tools & processes.
Develop Systems Thinking & Regeneration Capabilities
Build capacity for change agents to map, study, and convene systems before intervening in them, anticipate and mitigate likely negative feedback looks and “unexpected returns,” join up agents in a system in synergistic collaboration for outsized impact and “phase transitions,” and leverage cutting-edge and life-affirming regenerative design lenses and approaches that support systems to restore and rejuvenate, find more circularity and wholeness, and support more life.
“I have been blown away. I am so inspired to see empower the team and help them develop and blossom in their roles.”
British Heart Foundation
Changemaker Capacity-Building Leadership Curriculum
Self-Making
Wake Up: Explore & Integrate Your Intellect & Wisdom As An Individual Changemaker
- Self-Knowledge: Integrating The Neuroscience & Wisdom Of Mind & Body from Interoception to Enlightenment
- Self-Sabotage: Maladaptive Patterns, Triggers, Trauma, Inner Child, Attachment & Addictions
- Self-Transformation: Mastering & Embodying Change with Committed Inner Work, Ownership & Skillful Means
- Self-Reliance: Time, Energy, Strength, Resilience, Boundaries & Recovery
- Self-Transcendence: Non-Dual Experiences & Reorganizing Around Interconnection & Wholeness
- Self-Initiation: Developmental Stages & Upgrades Through Releasing, Grieving, Healing & Receiving
Sense-Making
Step Up: Understand The Dynamics Of Your Space & Your Potential As A Changemaker To Reshape It
- Foundations For Sense-Making: Connecting Self-Development with Social Change
- Ways of Sense-Making: Cognitive Complexity (The Scientific/ Analytical/ Quantitative Traditions) & Embodied Wisdom (Contemplative/ Consciousness/ Qualitative Traditions)
- Coherence & Congruence In Sense-Making: Inner Truth, Harmony & Satyagraha vs. Fixations, Projections, Confusions & Cognitive Biases
- Making Sense Of Suffering: Opening to Pain & Compassion, Existential Crises, Compassionate Action, Life/Leadership Purpose
- Making Sense Of Purpose: Integrating Compassionate Activism, The Bodhisattva Vow, Dharma & Devotion, Commitment Without Attachment
Breakthrough-Making
Shake Up: Leverage Your Purpose to Create Paradigm-Shifting Innovations & Business Models
- Understanding Breakthroughs: The Art, Craft & Process Of Transformation
- Causing Breakthroughs: Assumptions, Paradox, Paradigm-Shifts, Strange Attractors & Innovating at the ‘Edge of Chaos’
- Designing Breakthroughs: Regenerative Business Models & Theories of Change
- Executing Breakthroughs: Minimal Viability, Imperfection, Adaptive Execution & Pivoting
- Leading Breakthroughs: Breakthroughs, Breakdowns & Emergence
- Optimizing Breakthroughs: Creative Flow States, Harmonzing Stability & Agility
Tribe-Making
Team Up: Bring A Group of Committed People Together to Improve & Execute Your Innovation
- Forming Tribes: Interdependence, Boundaries, Relational Fields & Reciprocity (Rights & Responsibilities)
- Uniting Tribes: Diversity, Psychological Safety, Attunement, Trust & Presence
- Consolidating Tribes: Code-switching between different developmental stages & value system
- Unlocking Tribes: Designing For Collective Intelligence, Cooperation, Collaboration & Co-Creation
- Unblocking Tribes: Difficult Conversations, Heart-Centered Dialogue, Conflict Resolution & Repair
- Evolving Tribes: Co-Evolution, Listening, Learning & Recentering
Movement-Making
Take Up: Inspire & Influence All Stakeholders To Play Their Full Part In Delivering Your Vision
- Starting Movements: Crafting, Embodying & Transmitting Vision With An Authentic Voice
- Influencing Movements: Stakeholder Mapping & Ethical Persuasion Techniques
- Building Movements: Surfacing & Integrating Theories of Change
- Inspiring Movements: Transformational Storytelling & Masculine & Feminine Hero(ine) Journeys
- Managing Movements: Transparency, Generative Hierarchies & Self-Organization
- Leading Movements: Service, Stewardship & Unstoppable Resolve
World-Making
Lift Up: Harness Your Enterprise To Shift Your System Towards A Regenerative Future
- Understanding Social Worlds: Complex Adaptive Systems, Poverty & Precarity & Societal Stages Of Development
- Understanding Natural Worlds: Living Systems, Wholeness/Interdependence/Reciprocity & Regenerative Systems/Tech
- Envisioning World Change: Scenario Planning, Cosmolocal Models, Decoupling Carbon & Recoupling Connection
- Designing World Change: Designing & Sequencing Systemic Interventions & Inventions
- Leading World Change: Processes & Practices For Whole Systems Transformation
- Catalyzing World Change: Conscious Activism, Ahimsa (Non-Violent Action), Working With Resistance, Holding Generative Spaces
Our Experience In Capacity-Building & Leadership Development
100,000+ leaders developed
220+ leadership development programs for major institutions/corporations
100+ takeaway tools developed
50+ countries and regions worked in
10+ leadership toolkits produced
“Empowered our leaders across Africa to design and execute effective collaborations and co-create program innovations.”
Director, Oxfam
Our Game-Changing Leadership
Curriculum, Interventions & Theory
Most leadership programs fail to deliver the results promised—because they are locked in an outdated training model that fails to deliver transformed leaders or concrete business impact.
With our origins in strategy and innovation consulting, training in behavioral and brain science, and years of experience, we have innovated a genuinely pioneering approach to maximize your leadership development investment by changing leaders as fast as humanly possible.
Coherent & Comprehensive
Self-To-System™ Leadership Curriculum
Over 25 years, we have researched, evolved, tested, and codified a coherent and cohesive "Self-to-System" leadership development curriculum that starts with how to change oneself and ends with how to transform systems. Our curriculum enables leaders to master the inner and outer games of leadership.
State-Of-The-Art Transformative Interventions
Alongside the curriculum, we developed a number of innovative interventions for unlocking and sustaining exceptional leadership. These range from peer-to-peer coaching that builds trust and traction to truly transformative experiences that can break persistent habits and unfold rapid change.
A Science-Backed Theory Of Change
Our curriculum and interventions have been built upon our own original theory of human development, Bio-Transformation. We developed this methodology to transform, as quickly as humanly possible, how leaders feel, think, act, interact, relate, innovate, and communicate by working with, not against, human biology and culture.
“Uniquely combine deep systemic thinking, expert knowledge of human behavior, and a strong creative flair. And lots of fun to work with!”
Director of Change, WWF
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