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I am repositioning my work to stay true to my life’s intentions.
Over the past two years we have been watching a roller coaster ride of geo-politics, war and ecological disaster. And yet my own life is moving ever more calmly. I now have the luxury to adjust my work to what feels in integrity. This article explains why and how I am changing my business offering.
The Future We Need Doesn’t Fit in Most Large Organizations
I am a believer and an expert in leadership coaching. My aim has always been to support people to lead with integrity and heart, to leverage their greatest strengths and forward their passions through their work. That is still 100% true.
What’s changed is that I no longer believe that this is possible within the majority of medium or large commercial organizations. The pressure to perform has grown too high. For many leaders, working in organizations limits their capacity to be at their best as human beings. While many organizations make significant contributions to critical causes, the actual work of most commercial organizations involves extraction, depletion and exploitation. A future of human flourishing cannot be built within this structure.
And yet we are living in the narrative that working in large commercial organizations is the best way to secure our futures and the livelihoods of our children. This story no longer works for me. I see so many people who are struggling to cope with the pressures they face at work. Corporate workers are forced to limit themselves through too much focused work and not enough free time or play time. Human creativity is wasted at a time when radical innovation is needed. This narrow focus blinds us to what is most important in life.
This degradation of commercial organizations is not surprising as we near the end of the expansion of modern post-industrial civilization. The narratives we have built can no longer support our thriving. We must change our deep human operating assumptions. This change requires self-leadership and entrepreneurship.
We Will Find New Ways of Working
While we cannot change the generational shifts that are happening in our workplaces now, we can respond with flexibility and alignment with our own highest values. Each individual who pivots towards a role with more autonomy, more focus on their own development and/or more meaningful results is contributing to a societal change.
For the people who feel the call to align their working lives with their deepest aspirations, I am eager to help. I can provide a conversational space to explore possible futures and pathways grounded in the needs of the moment. And I can help people move through the emotional development that life changes can evoke.
Mindsets and Cultures are Changing
In changing jobs, getting laid off, retiring, volunteering, starting new ventures, going freelance or fractional we will face challenges to our ways of thinking and feeling. New needs and emotions will arise. Failing to recognize and integrate those changes can make transitions much more difficult. I can provide the support that eases transformation and maintains momentum. We need clarity, confidence and courage.
As individuals transform in response to the challenges of our current moment in history, our cultures will inevitably change as well. It inspires me to be able to support people to move towards the unknown at their own pace, learning and growing with every step towards new experiences. Together we are creating a better world, starting with the personal world that each of us gets to experience.
Please visit my updated website to engage with what I am offering.
Living & Leading in a Transforming World
This article was written by me alone, informed only by everything that influences me in my reading, community and experiences. The bias in it comes from my own life, not from an amalgamation of information that was gathered by a digital robot.