Let’s get wild.
How can we help systems change well? Just ask the bramble, a shrub that grows in marginal and disrupted environments and holds space for the next ecosystem to emerge.
Bramble might strike you as an unlikely hero. But an acorn that roots in the protection of its thorns may survive to become an oak tree. In this way, bramble acts as both pioneer and steward, facilitating the transformation from cleared land to thriving forest.
As leaders, we are often taught that we should be like the landowner who favours order over wilderness. But what if we were more like the bramble?
Be more bramble.
What would it look like for our teams and organisations to live in healthy reciprocity with the complex places and communities in which we are rooted? How might we accelerate change we need by liberating the innate innovative capacities in the systems around us? And if the seeds of the future we want are already with us today, how can we help them emerge?
These are the questions that guide our work with leaders, teams and organisations. Like our namesake plant, we are a work in – and a work of – progress.
Capacity for evolution
Organisations can get stuck preserving a familiar present at the expense of a needed future.
Bramble helps leaders and teams to release this future potential by developing three capacities:
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Be aware of the latent potential in self, teams, organisation and operating context.
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Cultivate the imagination, courage and ambition to envision and inspire others towards a regenerative future.
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Understand and harness the power to influence and evolve the systems they serve.
How we work
Deeply co-creative
Never off-the-shelf. We meet you where you are and build something novel together. We bring deep expertise but hold it lightly.
Outside-in
We bring the system into the room to help you avoid the pitfall of following others’ playbooks—and develop vision and agency in an increasingly complex, interdependent world.
Whole person
We help leaders build the inner capabilities needed to thrive in complex and changing environments, taking a holistic approach to “being” and “doing”
Stewards of potential
We hold your mission and long-term potential in our hearts and minds to guide everything we do.
Method and magic
The methodological rigour, expertise and strategic smarts to grapple with complex organisational contexts. Infused with creative, playful and inspirational experiences.