Visionary Transitions

Organizations that truly want to accomplish something they’ve never accomplished before - especially if they span the world and involve hundreds or thousands of people - are taking on a challenge that is often underestimated. When leaders set out to change the direction of such a company or agency - to make it more resilient or innovative, to increase its capabilities, to shift its strategy or to reorient its purpose - they are intervening in a complex system.

Working with Dialogos, leaders develop and apply an exclusive “sea change” process: a sequence of moves which are tested and refined through a variety of real-life change initiatives. Making a genuinely visionary transition requires that we invest the same kind of care, coherence, resilience, sponsorship and investment that we would invest in a new factory, brand or market.

The processes of sea change all draw deeply upon the unique ecology of each particular enterprise, but they have some qualities in common:

• We discover and articulate the issues that drive us to seek change.
• We engage the key sponsors without whom no significant change can be sustained.
• We map the critical components of the organizational system inside and outside its boundaries.
• We engage the people from those components, drawing them into full participation with us.
• We collectively learn from our own experiences, so that we can generate a deeper awareness.