TCZ Episode #121: Alison Cameron: What Does It Really Take To Transform Teams?

In this episode Alison Cameron, an internationally acclaimed transformation strategist and I talk about what it takes to guide team leaders in enabling organisational evolution. I'm interested, how do we ourselves as team coaches, better understand what it takes to help our clients adapt their ways of working and worldview.

Alison's work has taken her from the boardrooms of large, multinational corporations working with leaders in business, politics and not-for-profit sectors, to leading social transformation initiatives around the world. She is the co-founder of Adaptive Cultures, a growing global community of leaders and culture practitioners working with many of the world’s most complex and influential organisations. Adaptive Cultures diagnostic instruments and methodologies have been endorsed and implemented by a number of teams going through significant transformations. We start our conversation talking about where she lives surrounded by mountains and a verdant tropical backdrop in Australia, and her own fascinating transformation journey which started in Alison's early teens and took her to be on stage with Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lamai and other respected world leaders. It's a moving story which she has never shared before and sets the tone for our conversation.

Here's what we talk about in addition to Alison's own story:

Awakening and being called to a higher purpose
Working with living systems as a leadership and team coach
The need to do the inner work as a practitioner
Developing adaptive capacity and agility in organisations
How to identify the different stages of cultural evolution
The critical importance of structure in nurturing potential
Tips for team coaches working inside organisations

You can find more on Alison and Adaptive Cultures here: *https://adaptivecultures.co

For show notes go to: http://teamcoachingzone.com/alisoncameron

Note: On the show notes page you can download the Stages of Cultural Evolution (see attached PDF) and the white paper on Adapting Organisations Through Leadership and Culture (see attached PDF)

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