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Organizational Consulting Services

We work with organizations to provide holistic insights that combine (i) analysis of operating results & performance metrics with (ii) a holistic perspective that views organizations and teams as “living systems“. This approach recognizes that the surrounding context, dynamics and interrelations in a living system underlie and impact organizational performance.

Whenever a client faces an organizational challenge, we do not look to provide “solutions”, but instead to guide our client towards a deeper, broader and clearer understanding of the issue at hand. We believe the client is in the best position to select and create effective solutions and strategies once new insight is obtained.

Obtaining holistic insight involves combining a “left-brain” approach which focuses on analyzing data in a logical manner with “right-brain” perspectives to incorporate intuition, systemic thinking, emotional intelligence and “big picture” contextual issues. These right-brain insights are generated through techniques such as organizational constellations, creative exploration exercises and visual mapping.

Why Use A Holistic Approach?

A holistic, systemic approach is particularly useful for recurring organizational challenges and patterns that seem to defy obvious solutions.

Where a challenge is straightforward, a non-holistic approach applied directly at the level of the issue is often the most appropriate. For an everyday example, consulting a knee specialist for knee pain is an appropriate response. However, if this fails to resolve the issue, taking a broader, holistic approach can open up new solutions. Perhaps the knee pain is not directly about the knee but represents a broader issue such as poor posture, incorrectly lifting weights at the gym, a nutritional issue or a somatized emotional theme.

In a similar fashion, a repetitive pattern of financial issues that seems disconnected from the relevant product or service may reflect an underlying broader organizational or team dynamic.