Creating the conditions for change
Our Philosophy
People and Practice work with individuals and teams who are willing to do meaningful work. This means helping people see grey scales not black and white boxes. To question and understand themselves, enhancing their awareness of the systems and cultures they live and work in to spend their time on what creates meaning and honesty for them and the people around them.
In this, the underpinning philosophy is about context and nuance, embracing simplicity where simplicity exists but not at the cost of doing the meaningful work at the root of change. This is thinking with head, heart and gut, accessing information and data that inhibit growth and authenticity. We coach “people" not just executives, entrepreneurs or personal coaching. How you choose to make a living and spend your days invariably affects your life, and how you choose to spend your life has an impact on your work. The coaching takes place in your focused context, however we don’t slice people into separate parts when we know they are connected. We need to look at the whole person or team for change. The approach is equal parts scientific and creative. Backed with neuroscience and innovation, the past and future, digital and raw, empirical and emotion based; we meet you in the moment where you are now as an individual, team or organisation.
We offer coaching to individuals and teams, mentoring, process consulting, coach training, targeted leadership programmes and facilitation (including transformation, innovation, disruption, openness and bias), and organisational culture consulting. All of our Associates are certified coaches and have training with group dynamics and systems and understand the interplay between people and practice.
How do things look when you think in isolation?
We help you gain clarity so you can see in context and think better.
Theories on a page are great for understanding, but it's what translates into real practice that matters. You strengthen what you practice. Whatever we allow ourselves to think about becomes our inclination. So much of what we think we are deciding is driven by habitual and automatic practice whether we like it or not.
People and behaviour are at the root of all we do.
Direction
We are on a mission to bring rationality, nuance, grace and compassion into interactions, thinking and conversations. We are concerned about social norms limiting originality, and how people's great intentions and thinking can be inhibited by others or their own assumptions. We want to build environments to create better thinking.
Route
Help create more self-aware societies by creating the conditions for change through our work, research, voice and content. We seek clients who can bring something great into the world and to help them think better to make it a reality. We pair our practice with original content and research, aimed at uncovering new thinking.
Vehicle
Our people use themselves as instruments and our practice focuses on solutions for systemic change to help individuals, teams, groups and organisations think better. We help people get out of their own and each others way. We help people think about thinking and understand what enables and derails change.
Client organisations Heather or People and Practice have delivered global work with (for, to or associated with) when she has been based in Australia, Canada, the US & UK.
Our individual and start-up clients are too many to list. Ask us who we have worked with to find out more.
Grey Matters
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