We help teams surface and shift unspoken power dynamics to deepen connection, build capacity, and amplify impact.
Despite our best efforts, our impact can fall short, and even cause harm.
We help teams recognize and close the intention-impact gap so their actions consistently reflect their values and purpose.
Our work with impact-conscious leaders and their teams follows an approach based on feedback, experimentation, and agility - or as we call it, the 'Five D's' approach.
Discovery
Be conscious of inferences, biases, and assumptions and choose to engage people in meaningful conversations to surface needs, values, and hopes and fears.
"What do we know about this from our team's perspectives?"
Discovery is about asking powerful questions, listening deeply, and acknowledging the people you're sharing a big part of your life with.
Definition
Make sure that people are aligned on the understanding and meaning of problems, opportunities, words or terms, and any other signals that have surfaced.
"What is our shared understanding and agreement of existing challenges and opportunities?"
Definition is about establishing shared understanding, agreement, AND commitment, when it comes to the challenges and opportunities you will be prioritising and allocating effort to. In other words, it's providing clear and purposeful direction.
Design
Acknowledge the feedback, perspectives, and ideas that people have contributed, and clearly communicate the connection to what you will (and will not) be prioritizing as a team.
"What are we choosing to prioritize, and how might we approach this work?"
Design is about engagement, alignment, and feedback-informed experimentation and iteration – knowing you will learn and adapt as you identify more meaningful ways of working together.
Delivery
Create the roadmap, get the right people in the right roles, and establish your ways of working. Do not forget to confirm agreement (different from understanding) and to set up accountabilty rhythms.
"How are we ensuring alignment, agreement, and traction"?
Delivery is about is about supporting team members through challenges and opportunities as they present themselves. It's about the activation of awareness, skill, and commitment you've made together as a team.
Debrief
Continue to have meaningful conversations - asking powerful questions, surfacing helpful feedback, and making important decisions - to ensure the alignment of intention and impact.
"What is here for us now, and what is next"?
Debrief is about traction – moving forward through feedback, building capacity, and celebrating the learning (wins, misses and everything between). Debriefing is an amazing place for recognition and appreciation to shine!
Who we are
We are trusted leadership advisors, learning and development facilitators, and professional coaches helping teams to operationalize leadership and learning in the most meaningful ways.
What we're about
We are on a mission to help create and support as many leaderful teams as we can - where people consciously use their power to affect change in positive ways.
Partners in Practice
