Pyramid to Circles

Remko has been coaching and facilitating multicultural and highly challenging contexts in the civil society for the last 2 decades. His professional journey has taken him from his native city of Rotterdam to Bangadesh, India and Mozambique, working in various advisory and leadership positions for international NGOs and their networks of partners. Today, as a senior Integral Facilitator, Master Coa...

In this episode, Diane Musho Hamilton explores how the two polarities, Sameness and Otherness, impact group dynamics profoundly. Learn practical tips to navigate these forces in groups and organizations, and get insights on how to integrate these polarities in service of transformation. Diane Musho Hamilton is an award-winning mediator and a teacher of Zen meditation. She is recognized for her ski...

“It is not the world outside us that has created the greatest problems facing civilization (or organizations), but our own limited consciousness. ” In this episode, I interview Marilyn Schlitz, an acclaimed social anthropologist, consciousness researcher and award-winning author. Marilyn has published the award-winning film “ Death makes life possible ” with Deepak Chopra, and is the CEO/President...

This episode is specially for Facilitators and Leaders who want to enable a team or a group of people to reach a new level of outcome with minimal energy or resources. I really enjoyed Keith energy and mastery. Mickael Unwittingly, the conventional structures used to organize how people routinely work together stifle inclusion and engagement. Liberating Structures are these new practices that libe...

B Corp is  a movement that brings together thousands of companies worldwide and that seeks to transform the economy by demonstrating, through the achievements of the B Corp community, that it is possible to reconcile the profit motive (for profit) and the collective interest (for purpose). Their standards  affect not only companies' business models and value chains, but also that drives a cult...

Jan Artem Henriksson is the Executive Director of the Inner Development Goals Initiative . He is also co-founder of Self Leaders - a Nordic leadership consultancy, senior faculty member at Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education, and a board member of Ekskaret Foundation . In 2015, United Nations Sustainable Development Goals gave us a comprehensive plan for a sustainable world by 2030....

Christiane is a self-organization specialist, TED speaker, coach and an entrepreneur. She has been among the first to teach and implement Holacracy since 2009. Her journey has led her to address in a very deep way the People dimension of self-organization. In her new book called “New Stories of Love, Power and Purpose”, she invites us to understand our human potential and gives us some tools to un...

Au sein du groupe Orange, Fabienne et Bruno occupent chacun des fonctions managériales dans lesquelles ils sont au cœur de la transformation agile de l’entreprise. Tous les deux ont déployé et maîtrisent l’agilité à l’échelle (SAFE) et  la Gouvernance Adaptative, une approche de l’auto-organisation inspirée de l’Holacracy et adaptée aux grandes entreprises. Dans cet épisode, ils partagent leu...

Brian is the founder of Holacracy and of HolacracyOne, the company that supports the growth of Holacracy. He sees his work today as “allowing leaders to release the reins of personal power and persuasion into a trustworthy and explicit governance process”. In this episode he shares his profound vision of leadership. He also explains why and how working with tensions  is essential to navigate...

In this episode I break a taboo by sharing my personal experience of an altered state of consciousness through legal psychedelics and how it has deeply impacted me positively in my life and in my work. I interviewed Christopher Kabakis and Dmitrij Achelrod (PHD), co-founders of Evolute Institute, who present their purpose, approach and results with leaders. Let me explain. We all know it, in an ev...

ICA is the Sweden #1 supermarket chain, with over 23 000 employees, 1300 stores across the country,  generating 100  Billion Euros of revenue. ICA has undertaken a very large agile transformation that has become a benchmark and a true inspiration for many companies in Sweden and all over Europe. The secret sauce of their success : make the transformation of matters of culture first, befo...

Polytechnicien, ayant travaillé 20 ans dans l'Internet dans la Silicon Valley, en Europe  et en Chine, Sébastien a vécu un burn out qui l’a conduit à s’intéresser au rôle de l'ego et à l’importance de l’écoute  dans les entreprises. Il a développé l’Écoute Progressive, une technique basée sur des principes d'humilité, de bienveillance et de confiance en l'humain, qu'il dévoile dans...

Pernilla Wikman is the VP, Head of Global Business at Telia, the leading Swedish Telco company. Based on her long personal exploration in the field of learning organizations, she has initiated in her division a deep culture transformation promoting self-managed and autonomous teams. In this episode she shares her experience, the results obtained, as well as very concrete insights on how to lead th...

In this episode, I share some of the key learnings I had throughout the 1st season of Pyramid to circles, in particular what the term ‘Living Organization’ means for me, as well as the key leadership skills necessary for managers who lead a transformation towards empowerment, including Intelligence of the Self, Emotional Intelligence (a lot in there to say), and Polarities Management. I would love...

Patrick Fransen is a Partner at Pebble Wave , a new type of consultancy whose goal is to incubate and invest in for-purpose start-ups. In this episode, Patrick explains why and how becoming a purpose-centric organization is a growth accelerator. He also introduces Pebble Wave’s 7-steps method to apply purpose centricity in all the company dimensions, including Culture, Ways of working, Busine...

Very often, sustainability is addressed in the realm of  “doing”: Indeed, individuals and organizations must react  to the alarming data indicating the destruction of our living systems. But as we react, we are not yet in a creation mode, one that is truly innovative and inspired. For that, we need to experience that sustainability is also about “being”. It is about a shift of mindset in...

Jef Cumps is the author of Sociocracy 3.0, the Nove l , and th e founder of ILean, a Belgian consultancy specialised in Agile and Sociocracy. In this episode, Jef shares about his experiences with companies and how he supports them finding the right balance between “ maintaining the structure” and “ empowering people” , two polarities often difficult to reconcile, by working both on the organisati...

Bruno Thévenin a été jusqu’en 2020 le CEO de Pepsico France, où il a créé les conditions d’un cercle vertueux alliant performance économique - une croissance exponentielle puisque l’entreprise est passé de 30 M€ à 1 milliards d’€, à la performance sociale (N°1 Great Place to Work, N°1 Top Employeur France). En parallèle de ce parcours de dirigeant, Bruno s’est formé au Coaching et à l’Intelligence...

Marco Bogers is the author of “Getting Started with Holacracy: Upgrading Your Team's Productivity”. Over the years he specialized in helping leaders and organizations find their Purpose. In this podcast, Marco explains that it is not about writing a statement, but rather about finding a place within yourself that he calls the "Trusted Source", into which you can tap in order to make better decisio...

Adam Rosendahl is a facilitator, experience designer, and the Founder of Late Nite Art® - a creative learning and development lab. For the past 10 years, he has traveled the globe, supporting teams to improve creative confidence and deepen connection beyond the roles people play at work. His clients include Pixar, Stanford, LinkedIn... In this episode, he shares how to build psychological safety i...

Atalwin Pilon is the founder of 100 Day Warrior, a spiritual and physical transformation program that creates the conditions for talented human beings to rise above themselves. This life-changing journey enables consciousness shifts, as well as renewed energy and meaning. Atalwin’s approach to transformation, by combining body and mind, is refreshing, highly innovative and quite unique. He inspire...

Co-fondateur et Directeur d'Orange Campus Management, l'université d'entreprise d'Orange qui s'occupe des 20 000 managers du groupe pour des programmes de formation et de transformation, Jean-François Hadida est aussi conférencier; sa passion : décortiquer les comportements managériaux pour favoriser leur évolution et permettre à l’entreprise et aux humains qui y travaillent de mieux faire face à...

PDG du groupe Armor depuis 2004, Hubert a conduit cette ETI française de 2500 collaborateurs dans 30 pays à multiplier par 4 son chiffre d'affaires, à racheter son concurrent américain jusqu'à devenir aujourd’hui le leader mondial sur son marché. Ayant mis l’innovation, le développement durable et l'entrepreneuriat au cœur de sa stratégie, Hubert dirige cette entreprise à partir de convictions hum...

In this podcast, we turn the microphone. My friend and business partner Chloé Grabli interviews me. I share my convictions, my experience as a change agent, in particular my journey in collective intelligence, Holacracy, Adaptive Governance, as well as the story of Fabric, the one of the book I just published, and some of the lessons I learned in 20 years working with dozens of organisations... I...

For the last 15 years, Thomas Thomison has been developing Holacracy® into a replacement for conventional management power hierarchies. In 2015, he co-launched encode.org to upgrade underlying business legal, capital, and social structures with the same self-organizing principles. In this podcast, Tom shares the deep convictions that led him dedicate his career to create organisations that truly r...