This is what I believe about the future:
As historical frames of reference fade in and out of informing our current
reality, traditional metaphors for work collide with the present framework. Our environment increasingly resembles a modern adaptation of the agrarian society where work and play coincide. The family unit has transformed into a variation of a partnership, contract, team, group, community, and company. The seasons of sowing, growing, harvesting and resting reflect how projects emerge, take shape, achieve results and dissolve in life and work life. In a short time we have developed fascinating tools that will serve us well, once we stop overusing and serving them.
Anatomically, the technical age has impaired our basic instincts and overwhelmed our rational brains into submission. By acknowledging the throwback to a historical time period where work was much more seamless with life, though not necessarily by choice, we must recognize the potential inherent in our senses: touching, feeling, intuition, and hearing, smelling, seeing. By combining a contextual, pattern recognizing reasoning with our senses, we can revive our survival instincts and use them to face the inevitable chaos reshaping future work.
It is through our senses,not our mind, that we create truly productive, resilient and adaptive relationships with work, with others and with ourselves.
This is what my work experience has taught me:
During my 25 years in business and organizations, I was never formally specialized or qualified for the positions I held. My appreciation for chaos and my inherent ability to detect disruption patterns and shift paradigms qualified me as an atypical leader in industries characterized by status quo and inability to recognize or accept the pressures for structural changes. By approaching the systems through a collaborative, inclusive style and trusting my senses and intuition I delivered results in both process and content.
This is my coaching signature:
Historian Theodore Zeldin and his fascinating book “The Intimate History of Humanity” inspired my professional life as a coach for the past nine years. This excerpt from his text illuminates my professional mission:
“The Swedish Baron Berzelius introduced the word catalyst into chemistry meaning the importance ofa third party in a combination of two. As catalysts intermediaries have an independent existence andpurpose: they can create new situations and transform people’s lives by bringing them together. To bea catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being a constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction by adding something positive to the world, particularly a world which seeks equal respect for everybody. Intermediaries follow the principle of Archimedes: the way for the weak to move the strong is not by force but by modifying the relationship, changing the angle of approach.”
My mission is to be an intermediary in the new interconnected environment, which demands new approaches for collaborative activity. Interconnectedness demands a new paradigm for organizing our individual and collective futures. Traditional hierarchy cannot support nor pioneer networked activity. Major shifts are taking place from command and control to coordination and channeling. From one-way to two-way flow, and from lectures to meaningful, equal interaction.
We are moving from competition and defense to a culture of giving back; sharing knowledge, time and connections. My role as coach is to facilitate the passages through change and link processes, people and ideas into new, more natural patterns of flow.
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor of Economics, Management and Organization
• EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council) Practitioner Level 7 Accreditation
• Diploma Executive Coaching Mastery and Advanced Diploma (Kudos), Oxford, UK
• Accreditation in Emotional Intelligence and Team Emotional Intelligence
–JCA Occupational Psychologists, UK
• Licensed Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Consultant
• Grove Consultants, Graphic Facilitation
• Certified Turnaround Management Consultant, Quality Reward Assessor,
Outplacement Consultant, Spiral Dynamics, training levels 1 and 2
• Member European Mentoring and Coaching Council
This is what I believe about the future:
An unconstrained workplace is becoming the norm as younger companies are recognizing that productivity is directly related to a more open, physical, sensory experience in the office environment.
Where traditional competitors in an industry often saw one another coming from a mile away, they are now challenged by new types of organizations that approach work not with the invincibility of an “established” institution, but with the bated breath of impermanence and rebellion.
The new generation of worker is leaving conventions behind. While internal management systems are adapting at a slower rate, it is our responsibility to gauge the potential of a new type of worklife and reflect upon what bygone conventions are facing extinction.
This is what my work experience has taught me:
One thing is for certain: that the visual world is dominating modern work. Data visualization is replacing the traditional mediums of e-mail and PowerPoint. Graphic facilitation is no longer a best-kept secret and creative canvases like Tumblr are opening communication lines like never before.
Film and social technology are now commonly used to inform business decisions, from how and where exactly to launch a new product to how to organize workers into a completely new assemblage, crossing boundaries of geography and time.
This is my coaching signature:
I began my professional life pursuing the art of storytelling through producing film and television before launching my coaching practice in 2011. The various creations and original ideas I developed and produced for film and TV now inform the tailored coaching programs I offer to individuals, teams and companies. My ideal client is one hungry to unleash creativity and nurture an innovative outlook within the corporate framework.
Unconventional business practices that were considered renegade, that I took for granted as an entrepreneur, are now elements that differentiate a futuristic company from an obsolete one. What makes the entertainment industry stand out as an exemplary system for fostering creativity is the unorthodox approach it has to project and people management. Watching how storyboarding (the visual representation of how an idea plays out) improved the collective understanding and cooperation around a film project, I incorporated graphic facilitation as a coaching tool for prepping teams and individuals for coping with the future of their profession. I believe graphic recording and facilitation can inspire progress and novelty from even the most boring meeting or tired idea.
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
● Bachelor of Cinema/Television Production, University of Southern California
● Accreditation in Emotional Intelligence and Team Emotional Intelligence – JCA Occupational Psychologists, UK
● Licensed Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Consultant
● Grove Consultant, Graphic Facilitation
● Certified NLP Instructor
