Personal Update, 2019

This year, 2019, I’ve had the privilege of launching a new enterprise with my co-founders, Jess Nichol and Josh Zemel. We met years ago as fellow faculty at the Integral Center, a training and development organization. We’ve come together as Bedrock Culture and Leadership, bringing years of expertise in human relations and social systems to organizations.

We believe that how we work together is just as important as what we choose to work on.

We apply this principle to ourselves just as we bring this to our clients.

I’ve also come to believe a better world is possible through improving the quality of our relationships and approach to organizing our work together. This has been the focus of my work this past decade as I’ve practiced, taught, and facilitated Authentic Relating, Circling, and Holacracy.

I’d like to offer you a peek into a few of the insights motivating this focus of my work these days.

1. Many people have shared with me how important the quality of their relationships is to their work. It’s no longer good enough for many of us to continue tolerating difficult relationships at work or confining meaningful relationships to our private lives. Many of us are working partly from home, on geographically distributed teams, on serial short-term work projects, or at small, tightly-knit, mission-driven startups. These situations blur the lines between work and life in ways that confound typical approaches to…