EXPLORING NEW REALITIES

Padmini Nidumolu

How can the current Pandemic bring greater awareness of the need for a gender-balanced future

The quarantine period certainly made it evident that leadership, decision-making, household chores, home teaching children can be shared duties. The current pandemic situation opens doors to challenge gender stereotypes and rethink traditional narratives.This applies to companies living off the old narrative where the ‘dad’ sits at the top of the organization telling the kids what to do. It is more than a gender imbalance. It is an imbalance of what each gender contributes to the full potential and inclusive decision making.

Let’s explore how we can collectively use this experience to co-create a gender equitable future.

Benjamin Taylor

Crisis, total football, and human needs

All the barriers fall in response to the crisis – and adrenaline and freedom can be fantastic. As things pull themselves back together, pressures for differentiation and connection, autonomy and certainty will come back in at a much higher level. Benjamin talks to the successes and failures of ‘total football’, core human needs, organisational dynamics, and five practices that can help us make sense of – and use – the new potential and pressures the crisis has surfaced.

Sabine Neuenschwande

From zero to hero – a true story of how someone’s life completely changed due to the use of agile tools.

In summer 2017 Sabine’s life was full of problems. Health issues, family troubles, job issues, etc. She designed her life „2.0“ in less than 24 months and became a very successful coach & therapist. Sabine owns a company with 6 employees and loves to inspire other people with her story.

Lindsay Uittenbogaard

Every day is a new shared reality and alignment is more important than ever.

At the meta-level change is always happening. Today, it’s just much more turbulent, dynamic and there are wider extremes, so survival depends on how well we align. And it doesn’t happen by itself. It’s about what we collectively understand about our shared challenges (cognitive alignment) and how we will collaborate together (behavioral alignment). Lindsay will look at the nature of alignment, the drivers of misalignment, and the research behind better alignment. Let’s heal and prepare the future of our communities and institutions with new shared realities.

Patrick Hoverstadt

What happens next and how do we prepare?

When a crisis passes one of two things tends to happen – either a return to normal or significant shift. After the 2008 financial crash, governments worked hard to reinstate the same financial system so things could return to the old normal. It could happen like that again. But the plague destroyed the feudal system in England, society, technology and economics were never the same again. Crises also clear a space for changes to happen, for new technologies for new societal and economic systems. Crises can make transformation easier.

So which future do we prepare for and how do we prepare ourselves? How do we make ourselves and our organisations agile enough to deal with whatever comes?

Dawana Jones

What does steering through homelessness teach about using uncertainty and ambiguity

The uncertainty of knowing what lies ahead could take you down the path of anxiety and depression. Certainly, in the nine years I spent as a nomad and homeless, it was tempting. But uncertainty is also the path for growth. We have been given a huge opportunity to learn from the virus and the interruption that it’s caused, to decide how to self-manage and what we wish to co-create. Steering through any uncertainty, including homelessness, calls for something within each person that only adversity calls forth. Dawna Jones will share what she learned from her stint as an accidental nomad and why the interruption we are in now is the podium for a new level of co-creativity.

• How to reverse the downward spiral of depression.
• A different way of interpreting anxiety.
• What this virus can teach us and show us.
• Why now is the time to co-create the future together?
• How this virus develops the adaptive skills for working with climate change.