IT IS ABOUT YOU

Whether you are a manager or an individual contributor to knowledge work, recent developments in GenAI will likely serve as a catalyst to change your work processes. You will reevaluate goals, assumptions, norms, and interactions associated with your work and the work of others.

GenAI will complement some of your tasks, replace others and generate new ones, affecting the broader social fabric of organisational work.

You must reflect on your role identity (your self-understanding) and redefine what you do and who you are in relation to others.

We help you to identify what you perceive to be your threats and how to overcome them. We also discuss how your identity and your valued contributions can be expanded with the use of AI.

WILL AI RECONFIGURE YOUR TEAM'S WORK?

Leaders promoting AI-human collaboration may wonder why colleagues do not embrace AI and do not share their excitement about the future of "enhanced" work.

We help you discover what stands in the way of adoption by exploring what "work" means for those around you, how people see themselves and how they relate to their work "tools". We help you explore how fears, such as misrepresentation by AI, can be addressed.

Organisations may overuse the narratives of "efficiency" and "effectiveness" in AI deployments to legitimise their proposed course of action. Research has shown that "collaboration" with AI may take many forms and deliver unexpected outcomes.

Neither leaders nor vendors can benefit from cloaking this complexity in fancy slogans and absolve themselves of responsibility to surface employee tensions. They must work through them.

NEGOTIATING STAKEHOLDER PRESSURES

The current state of AI value exploration has been described as a "great experiment". Technology vendors, organisations, and governments worldwide are all involved in intellectual entrepreneurship to harness the power of AI.

You will be expected to legitimise your efforts to use AI advancements and proactively showcase that you are ahead of the curve in your industry.

There will be moments when you, as an organisation, will be torn between looking good and doing good. Your workforce may be preoccupied with status competition to prove their value.

We help you consider your strategies and action repertoires within your broader situated context.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

People, technologies and organisations are not stable entities. They are continuously becoming as their relationships unfold through mundane everyday activities. Adaptations, just like identities, are relational and dynamic. They emerge over time.

Enacting leadership involves designing and embedding processes and conditions to create the desired consequences. We work with leaders who are concerned with their decisions' broader implications.

We help you make sense of what you and your colleagues are learning, developing, and enacting. Although your ability to make change is entangled with what is around you, you always have choices, and we help you see them clearly.

ABOUT US

We are passionate about helping you identify new pathways to create value and extend your capacity to make a visible impact.

Our founder, Laura Hefer, is insatiably curious and resistant to committing her life to a single profession or discipline. She is a generalist completing her fourth degree in a fourth discipline.

In her research, she explores technology vendors' idea of reality and how users experience their reality, how vendors package their knowledge and how users unpack it in their specific contexts. Laura is interested in the opportunities and threats AI-fuelled digitalisation presents to our work practices and how we see ourselves, others, and the world.

As a leadership and team coach, Laura draws on her strengths to integrate her knowledge, experience and diverse social networks to ask unexpected questions during her interventions.

We are focused on innovation and are expected to move fast while taking on more responsibility and changing roles. We started with the feeling of disconnect and your program provided a great reset. The questions that we had to answer were very thought-provoking.

- Senior Leader at Schneider Electric

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