Organisations Don’t Transform, People Do – Igniting intact leadership teams and cross-functional partnerships

In our last ‘Organisations Don’t Change, People Do’ hangout, we explored the importance of shifting how people think, feel and act at scale, and what it takes to create shared leadership practices that enable transformation to stick. We spoke about ‘unboilable frogs’ – a mindset centred on people staying conscious, resourceful and intentional in how they show up during transformation, rather than unconsciously adapting to the pressures around them. This is a key meta mindset shift around ‘being at my best’. 

Building on that conversation (and equally relevant if you weren’t able to attend), this next session will focus on Lever Two from our Four Levers for Sustainable Transformation: Igniting intact leadership teams and cross-functional partnerships.

While transformation often starts with bold ambition, it is sustained, or stalled, in the everyday habits, routines and relationships of and between teams. We notice that some of what undermines transformation vision and efforts can be leaders sponsoring change without truly role-modelling it; culture remaining owned by HR rather than the business; and collaboration breaking down because teams lack shared intent, trust and clarity on how they need to work together.  

Drawing on over 35 years of partnering with organisations navigating complex change, we’ll explore what really gets in the way of improving team performance and how your intact leadership teams and cross-functional partnerships can become engines of meaning, clarity, and momentum, resulting in culture shift. 

In this 90-minute virtual hangout, we will: 

• Sense-make together around the leadership team dynamics that most often enable, or block transformation  

• Explore how intact teams and cross-functional partnerships can create the conditions for culture change to take hold  

• Share practical experiences of building trust, shared intent, and collective ownership across teams  

• Create space to reflect on your organisation and the part you have and can play 

This hangout is designed for senior leaders and anyone committed to enabling transformation.