Creating Conditions for Emergence in 2022 (Key Strands in a Culture for Value Creation)

Guest Speaker: Geoff Marlow      

Introduction to Emergence

For several years there has been a muted feeling amongst leaders that “there must surely be a better way than this?”  We are well aware of the many challenges brought on over the past two Covid dominating years, particularly in respect of our levels of business, ways of working and relationships.  Looking forward there are of course new opportunities for positive change and now is a good time to determine our way ahead including new ways of creating value both at the organisational and personal levels.  

In his 2020 book ‘Sand Talk’ Tyson Yunkaporta, a member of the indigenous Apalech Clan from far north Queensland, Australia, and a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne, takes a critical look Western society viewed from an indigenous lens.

Especially scathing of our habit of applying single dimensional ‘solutions’ to complex problems, he says: “Anybody who thinks they’ve got a solution or they have a plan or a design or anything like that – they’re an idiot. You can’t. Dynamic systems don’t operate like that. You have a thing called emergence. We know this. We know the science on it and emergence is the only thing that can deal with these kind of complexities. All you can do is foster the conditions for emergence

So, the question being addressed in today’s powerful workshop is focussed on is “how can we foster conducive conditions for emergence in our organisations irrespective of sector or size?”

Workshop Content

This interactive workshop will reconsider how insights from traditional wisdom, largely dismissed and discarded by more recent ideas about leadership, can inform our personal and professional practice.

We will also explore links to contemporary research that helps explain why and how emergence works in ways senior executives can embrace and apply with confidence in practice.

Outputs

The workshop will illustrate how senior executives can promote conditions that encourage, enable, and empower emergence, so their organisations can thrive in our increasingly uncertain and unpredictable world.

As is the SIBL norm, learning will also be gleaned from interactive breakout exchanges of views and experiences and subsequent personal reflections.

Geoff Marlow –Keynote speaker Bio

For the past 35 years Geoff has worked with senior executives and their organisations across Europe, Asia and the USA, helping them create “future-fit” cultures of innovation, agility, and adaptiveness.

Geoff is a former Director of Peter Senge’s Society for Organisational Learning (SOL) (2009-2015). He was also co-founder with Lord David Owen (Ex Foreign Secretary).of the Daedalus Trust and served as an advisory board member for seven years to 2017.

Prior to setting up his own consulting practice in 2001, he was Global Director of Innovation, Leadership and Learning with Arthur D Little (1995-2001).

Geoff qualified in business coaching with the international Meyer Campbell (2006-2007).

He has a degree in Systems Engineering from Coventry University.

For further information see https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreymarlow/