Services
To support leaders, creatives and change makers to implement profound systems innovation and change.
KEYNOTES AND CONSULTING SERVICES
We co-create and innovate
with organizations from all sectors.
In his current work, Otto and his colleagues apply the U-process of presencing to three main areas: Leadership Development, Profound Innovation and Coaching.
Leadership Development
With his colleagues Otto has co-created numerous presence-based leadership programs. These programs help leaders to lead profound innovation and change in the context of rapidly changing environments by building their personal capacity to sense and seize emerging future opportunities. The outcomes of these programs include:
- Heightened power of presence, clarity of focus, and level of energy
- Significantly changed leadership behaviors and practices
- Breakthrough business results
- A field of high-trust relationships across organizational boundaries
Profound Innovation
Current applications of the U-process for leading profound innovation include companies like Eileen Fisher or multi-stakeholder systems innovation. For example, we facilitated innovations by a regional network of German physicians to produce a higher quality and lower cost emergency service in their region by linking all of the key players across institutional boundaries. Other projects focus on in-company applications of the U-process for six-month global deep-dive and fast-cycle prototyping conducted by diverse small teams.
Coaching
Otto’s current coaching work focuses on leaders in NGO and civil society organizations and on leaders in business organizations. The U-process of presencing is used in two ways: as a tool for thinking about the institutional and individual challenges that leaders face on all levels (individual, group, institution, system) and as a tool for structuring the coaching process as it evolves.
Presencing as an approach
to Leadership and Innovation
Focusing on seven cornerstones:
01. Action learning
dealing with the strategic challenges of the organization
06. A high-trust context
to enable powerful peer coaching sessions and processes
06. Methods and tools for prototyping
and leading profound innovation and change
02. Total-immersion deep-dive journeys
to explore contexts that matter
03. Creative-art-based practice fields
for developing new skills in safe environments
04. Practice tools and techniques
for producing generative dialogue and deep listening
05. Presencing practices
for connecting with the source of one’s best future Self
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CASE STUDIES
Sustainable Food Lab
As a case study, the Sustainable Food Lab provides evidence to support a theory of change, that is based on multi-stakeholder collaboration and partnership. Otto Scharmer refers to the pivotal role of the Presencing part of the U-Process.
Global Wellbeing and GNH Lab
The Global Wellbeing and Gross National Happiness Lab is a collaborative exploration of innovative ways that enable a shift of the global economy from “ego”- centric to “eco”-focused development.
Building Systems Leadership Capabilities with UNDP
The Presencing Institute has been partnering with the United Nations Development Program to build and sustain architectures of learning and connection for the cultivation of transformation literacy and action confidence within the UN system and beyond, aimed at building capabilities for awareness-based collective action.
Organizational Transformation
Otto Scharmer has been collaborating with Eileen Fisher on Leadership and the personal dimension of organizational change. key goal was on how to develop management skills through physical awareness.
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