What character of self is beckoned onto the scenes of your organizational life?  I imagine you can easily identify the roles that others take up. The thing is, while the scripts and the actors who read from them may be familiar, what we often don’t understand is how they came to be cast in the role, where they originated, and what work they are doing on behalf of the system. If you or the folks in your organization are feeling typecast, unable to diverge from the role you were cast in, not capable of flipping the script, you might benefit from a character study.

Often we are disappointed when folks in our organization do not show up in the way that we desire them to.  We expect that when someone has been placed in a certain position, or even have shown themselves to be ideally capable most of the time that they will always show up with those capacities…that they will never fall back to a smaller, more constricted, less capable version of themselves. But, in reality, humans are far more complex than that. We have a range of ways in which we show up to the scenes of our lives. And, now more than ever, organizational life is rife with the triggers that may send us back into ways of being in our roles that are less complex than what is needed.

Through my education and research, my own forays into leadership and followership, and my accompaniment of others through theirs, I have learned much about human development and its inextricable connections to leadership, about power and authority and how they manifest and are taken up in systems, about the complexity of groups and teams and the roles we take up by choice and by default, and about change. In my facilitation with teams and organizations, I bring all aspects of my knowledge and experience in these areas to bear.

I accompany individuals into a deeper knowing of the characters that are being cast in the scenes of their professional lives and an understanding of why. Using the metaphor of theater, we make discussable and navigable the dynamics at play within self and between others as the characters within the organization interact. We explore and make known what contexts and conditions allow us to bring our bigger selves – those characters who are capable of taking on different perspectives, navigating complexity, and unearthing new approaches and options to our most pressing challenges. And, we also make space for the inevitable times when our fallen back self comes on the stage. In so doing, we begin to connect to our intentions, individually and collectively, to design the kind of culture that allows us to try on different roles and in some cases, to flip the script altogether.

Let’s connect to see if I may be of service to you and your organization. Schedule a complimentary get-to-know you session.