Best Practices and Insights for Facilitating Creativity, Alignment & Organizational Results

Author: Gisela Wendling, Ph.D.

We often think of confidence as something solid, something we either have or don’t. But during deep change, especially when it’s personal or high-stakes, confidence can suddenly fall away. What once felt stable can feel shaky. You might question your instincts, hesitate to speak or wonder if you are still the kind of leader others trust.

This is not unusual. In fact, it may be a sign that something important is happening beneath the surface.

Ego Loss or...

Author: David Sibbet

Is it possible that we are entering a truly new era of organization change? Many believe that the shadow side of the pervasive mechanistic paradigm that underlies corporate strategies has led to a crumbling of confidence in traditional responses to change.

Our equating success with the ability to extract value from the earth, from less powerful nations and peoples, and from our very children through the attention economy has left us reeling with problems. When objec...

Author: Gisela Wendling, Ph.D.

This post introduces several important distinctions regarding types of change that are explored further in The Liminal Pathways Study, Chapter 5: Patterns of Change. You can download the full chapter here.

Whether we work with a team, individual leaders, or whole organizations, supporting their performance, helping them realize visionary futures, or simply facilitating an offsite, the underlying process they are going through is one of change. Because of th...

Author: Gisela Wendling, Ph.D.

As The Grove steps into its own visionary future, I have been turning my attention to what it truly means to commit. The picture above is from an early meeting in this process when I was talking with Erik Rolland, Grove senior consultant, and Nevada Lane, Grove partner.

I know that empowered enablers of positive change require an approach that values high engagement, visionary leadership, shifting fundamental assumptions and committing to a new future. Whe...

Authors: Gisela Wendling, Ph.D. and David Sibbet 

These times of continuing instability demand that we focus on how we work with change. In this article, Gisela Wendling, Ph.D., and David Sibbet explore how to work with the seven challenges of change they identified in their book Visual Consulting: Designing & Leading Change. The Seven Challenges of Change™ Framework is an integration of the Theory of Process, on which all of The Grove’s process frameworks are based, and the Wendling Liminal...

Author: David Sibbet

As the sun rose over the south shoulder of Mt. Shasta on the fourth morning of my vision quest solo, I found myself doing the “Standing Like a Mountain” pose. The theme of constancy in the face of change emerged as a big takeaway from days of reflection, and I would like to share some of that thinking.

Shasta felt almost like a partner on this quest, as my purpose circle looked directly across a large meadow and up to the peak. On the last night of the three-day sol...

“Many leaders across the company were looking to increase team engagement and find ways to support their teams in meeting goals. We were getting multiple requests for this type of team performance support, and we just didn’t have the capacity to facilitate all of these teams.”

Devon Twyford

Leadership & Organization Developer, Humana

We worked with Devon Twyford at Humana to address the challenges she and the organization faced around teaming. Through a combination of training and a cus...

As the pandemic transforms into a new normal, organizations will rely on visionary leaders who are skillful at navigating change.

What is Visionary Leadership?

Visionary leaders' essential capability is being able to connect to their own north-star vision (a general direction or calling, if you will) and simultaneously being able to engage the larger organization in a change journey to find out what it will take to develop and realize a shared vision.

Because all change processes go thr...

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Author: Bobby Pardini, President of The Grove

“I’m not sure what will happen next.”

With all of the uncertainty and disruption taking place in our lives, the above statement might seem a bit obvious. Yet, there is power in saying the words, especially in the context of leading teams and organizations. I have discovered this first-hand as my role at The Grove has forced me to reconcile the responsibilities of leading an organization that I have devoted 31 ...