Voices from the Field
Regenerative Change Leader "Voices" - Meet Erika Kimball, Founder / CEO of Kimball Sustainable Healthcare
Erika Kimball is a RN and now Founder / CEO of Kimball Sustainable Healthcare, a sustainability consultancy that provides sustainability strategy, program development, change management, reporting and communications to the healthcare industry.
Erika appreciated the opportunity to gather with people from around the world to engage in meaningful learning and discussions around this topic of regenerative change. She talks about three specific focal points (or, as we like to call them, "stepping stones") that provided valuable insights she brings into her leadership and her business, and also to her clients: 1) Three Horizons, 2) Seasonality, 3) Conscious / Resilient Leadership practices.
The Three Horizons appealed to Erika because it provided her with a map to better understand the context around the multi-dimensional (or multi-horizon) work that is necessary in healthcare. She says that the healthcare system is designed for stability with structures and rules that enable quality care and community wellbeing; making change a challenge. You have to really understand these traditional structures, rules and cultures (Horizon 1) in order to be able to identify and create evidence-based pathways for more sustainable ways of operating (Horizon 2), while also having an eye on what's possible for whole-systems regenerative transformation (Horizon 3). She felt the Three Horizons helped ground her in recognizing and honoring how each of these horizons show up uniquely in healthcare.
From a Seasonality perspective, Erika says that looking at healthcare through the lens of the seasons helps her take a more holistic perspective to notice the patterns and cycles, the ebbs and flows of change, both in the industry and in the businesses with whom she is working. She says that it is easy to be caught in a linear mindset because the reality of working in a modern workplace is to be faced with an abundance of deliverables that can seem never-ending. Her role as a changemaker can feel overwhelming at times when there is always something to be moving forward. Seasonality, she says, helps shift her perspectives to notice and honor where things are, as opposed to where they "should be". She now likes to recognize and celebrate the seasonal phase-shifts of her initiatives, and work backwards from them when planning, so that the transitional phases can be celebrated instead of simply looking at the end result as a win or a loss.
Erika is a systems thinker who likes to ask these questions of her clients: "What is your system designed for?" and "How do you want people in your system to feel?" and "What are the system elements that need to be put in place to honor the unique viewpoints of the people in the system?" She says this course offered her a new set of tools and frameworks, or new ways of applying living systems principles and practices to time-tested change tools, that have helped her uncover new levels of resiliency in her own leadership as well as regenerative pathways for personal development and culture change inside of her client ecosystems.
Curious about how Regenerative Change can help you better navigate change and complexity, and create conditions for greater wellbeing, healthier relationships, and higher performance?
Join us for the next 8-week Regenerative Change Navigation Leadership Course. To learn more about the course and to register, click here.
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To learn more about Erika, please visit:
Website: http://kimballshc.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erika-kimball-8b2392a/
Regenerative Change Leader "Voices" - Meet Arev Hakobyan, Human-Centered Nature-Inspired Innovation Consultant & Coach
Arev Hakobyan is a Human-Centered Nature-Inspired Innovation Consultant, Facilitator & Coach based in Canada. She said the course was a big eye-opener for her; giving her a new language and lens to better understand herself, her team and the organizations with whom she works.
Arev found that the course helped her gain a deeper appreciation for meeting people where they are in terms of their energy levels in relation to themselves, to each other, and to their work or project (i.e. how each person is feeling from a 'seasonal' energetic perspective such as needing to 'winter' or slow down in order to restore vital energy, or being ready and able to exert high levels of 'spring' energy for creativity, innovation and rapid growth, or maintaining prolonged periods of 'summer' energy for sustained momentum and growth).
As an Agilist, Arev finds that the constant pursuit of 'continuous improvement' can be exhausting. The course helped Arev develop her abilities to be more present and aware of the energetic cycles of her team and projects, to work more compassionately with her team, to create safe spaces for communicating in more self-aware ways, and to design healthy paths for everyone's success.
Arev has long considered herself an 'Achiever' and often measured herself based on what she had achieved or not achieved. The course helped her un-learn old ways of thinking, being and doing; realizing she could take time to heal, to listen to her body (heart and gut), to let go of the need to control outcomes, and to be more open to the 'uncertainty' of what may come as a result of slowing down or letting go. Letting go opened her up to new questions and new perspectives, and created space for un-learning, re-thinking, re-tooling, and innovating.
Arev says she uncovered new levels of confidence and joy in celebrating spaciousness, uncertainty, self-care and renewal, as much as she celebrates her accomplishments. On many levels, Arev restored an inner/outer balance for herself through the course.
Curious about how Regenerative Change can help you better navigate change and complexity, and create conditions for greater wellbeing, healthier relationships, and higher performance?
Join us for the next 8-week Regenerative Change Navigation Leadership Course starting September 17th. To learn more about the course and to register, click here.
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To learn more about Arev, please visit:
Regenerative Change Leader "Voices" - Meet Nick Tucker, Marketing Communications Leader & Coach
Nick Tucker is a British-born New Zealander who owns and manages a regenerative farm in northern New Zealand. He is also a Marketing Communications expert and coach who works globally to market, coach and mentor organizations wanting to move to a more holistic, human and authentic way of marketing.
Between running his own farm, consulting and coaching, Nick also works on a NZ gov't funded project to facilitate and promote farmer-to-farmer learning and support amongst those implementing regenerative farming practices in New Zealand. Nick has been actively participating in a number of regenerative communities and learning journeys this year. He acknowledges that every experience has been valuable in offering him different sets of tools and new ways of thinking; including greater understanding of his own mechanistic mindset (the same one that drives much of modern society) and fresh perspectives that put life at the center of everything.
What Nick found unique about our course is that looks specifically at how to apply a regenerative lens to navigating and leading change; including how to find the courage and energy within himself to navigate change, and how to work with and influence the people and systems that are resisting change. In this course, Nick gained new regenerative tools and practices that have helped him develop more resilience (e.g. focus, presence, courage, and energy) when faced with resistance to the regenerative concepts he is trying to instill into the systems and people with whom he works.
He is also finding that the course helped him create more fertile ground for regenerative change efforts to take root, within himself and others, for further creativity and exploration. Nick also found the course offered a welcome relational space to cultivate lasting relationships and develop greater self-awareness, language, and energy for change among a group of like-minded people; helping him feel more connected and less 'alone' as a regenerative change practitioner.
Curious about how Regenerative Change can help you better navigate change and complexity, and create conditions for greater wellbeing, healthier relationships, and higher performance?
Join us for the next 8-week Regenerative Change Navigation Leadership Course. To learn more about the course and to register, click here.
Stay tuned for more Regenerative Change Leader "Voices" in the coming weeks. If you want to stay current with these and other posts, please sign up for our "Regenerative Change Matters" newsletter here.
To learn more about Nick, please visit:
Website: www.fromleftfield.co.nz
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tukkrr/
Change Requires More Than Insight
Most efforts at positive individual and organizational change fail because we stop at theory or insight, and don’t build the capacity to navigate transformation and shape an emerging future. Without cultivating personal leadership mindsets and self-renewal habits, change cannot come alive in our relationships and performance.
Therefore, Regenerative Leaders combine living systems approaches with personal change practices to build their team’s capacity for making an impact.
What if you could understand the enduring power of living systems principles to bring life-affirming practices to craft roadmaps?
Roadmaps to help you discover:
the emerging future of regenerative change
how to navigate the complex transitions
enhance your personal and professional energy
the courage to breathe life into the change work you are engaged in
How do you currently integrate living systems principles into your leadership approach?
And what personal change practices do you use?
Creating Regenerative Leaders with Future Readiness & Mental Fitness
At Regenerative Change Lab we help courageous leaders drive sustainable change using regenerative principles. We do this by equipping changemakers to be future-ready and mentally fit through our offerings.
Future Readiness - Seeing an emerging future
In our Regenerative Change Navigation Course, you'll join a small interactive group of change designers, facilitators, and leaders who want to refresh their approaches to working with teams, organizations, and communities with regenerative thinking.
Explore regenerative Tools and frameworks with targeted exercises to look for applications.
Refresh your sense of where we are coming from, understand the horizons of change, and spot where a regenerative future is emerging.
Find the opportunities for creating the conditions for renewing and restoring the capacity of living systems to flourish in your life, teams, and organizations.
Use living systems principles to invigorate yourself, your teams, and your organizations.
Mental Fitness - Sustained practice brings energy
We have all been to amazing trainings only to slip back into the same old patterns. Leaders do much better with a community of peers who can support building neural pathways that form lasting new habits and mindsets. This brings sustained results over time and the benefit of a more refreshed and energized approach to change.
Sustained change towards a more positive mindset, requires laying down neural pathways to form new habits through consistent daily practice combined with systemic application of regenerative principles and practices.
Strengthen three critical mental muscles to shift the balance of power from your inner Saboteurs (your negative self) to your inner Sage (your positive self).
Clear away the mental habits that stand in the way of leadership well-being, creating relationships that foster trust and productivity.
Regenerative Change Leader "Voices" - Meet Jenna Robertson, Regenerative Leadership Coach and Creative Facilitator
Jenna Robertson. a Scot living in Australia, is a Certified Regenerative Leadership Coach + Creative Facilitator for creatives and leaders. She is also an internationally award-winning opera singer, artist and arts leader. I highly recommend listening to her sing (link below).
Jenna said the course was well worth her getting up at 3am to gather, learn and share with other change makers and leaders. The mapping exercise helped open her heart to understanding the challenges of navigating the different horizons of our world; shifting horizons that many change makers find themselves operating within, designing within, communicating within, and often becoming exhausted, frustrated, and burnt out...within.
Having a better understanding of this evolutionary landscape, language and metaphors with nature as her guide helped Jenna align her inner and outer worlds; revitalizing the necessary energy, clarity and purpose to carry on.
Originally trained as an engineer, Jenna recently wrote about her life path "A 40 Year Journey from Engineer to Singer to Coach" (a fascinating read) and included this little bit about us:
"Then, a dear friend and colleague, Brad Peirce (Regenerative Change Lab) introduced me to the work of Giles Hutchins and Laura Storm in 2023 about 'Regenerative Leadership'.
'Regeneration' in a nutshell means healing, moving into harmony with the laws of nature and then into thriving.
'Regenerative Leadership' means leading self and systems through that process.
I loved the language deeply, which built on all that I had read and lived so far, and it also integrated the language of living systems (how nature works), which allowed my reverence for nature to meet my ways of being and leading in my mind. The laws of nature."
Jenna is now using this universal language of living systems as an ecosystem facilitator to create spaces that allow for both letting go and for emergence; communicating and offering tools to others in ways that cut through cultural boundaries.
Jenna has been a member of our community since May, 2023 and participated in Cohort 1 of the Regenerative Change leadership course.
Curious about how Regenerative Change can help you better navigate change and complexity, and create conditions for greater wellbeing, healthier relationships, and higher performance?
Join us for the next FREE Taster Session to experience regeneration in action, meet other change leaders from across the world, and peek behind the curtain on our Regenerative Change leadership course. Register here.
Stay tuned for more Regenerative Change Leader "Voices" in the coming weeks. If you want to stay current with these and other posts, please sign up for our "Regenerative Change Matters" newsletter here.
To learn more about Jenna, please visit:
Website: www.jennarobertson.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamjennarobertson/
Music (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/artist/1u5d0Cnkyr1C3IAFYxeDwr?si=umc6C4_ZTfmQ8VKIJB6s3A
Regenerative Change Leader "Voices" - Meet Jo Masraff, Agile and Sustainability Coach at AND Digital
Joanna (Jo) Masraff is an Agile and Sustainability Coach at AND Digital, who merges her passion for climate actionism with 15 years of Agile experience to empower individuals, teams and companies. As a trainer, coach, and former Scrum Master, she utilizes inclusive, curiosity-fuelled workshops to inspire individual growth, process improvement, and a conscious approach to our world. She is an international speaker and co-organiser of conferences, meetup groups, and a LinkedIn group called Agilists4Sustainability.
Jo was excited and fascinated to find so many similarities and crossovers between her world of Agile and the field of regenerative leadership. What resonated with her in particular was that Regenerative Change and Agile both look at the importance of the human dimensions of change. She also found that the Regenerative Change Navigation course awakened and renewed her connection with the natural rhythms, patterns and flows of the living world in deeply somatic ways.
The embodied part of this experience was important to her because, unlike so much of the learning today that awakens the mind, this course reconnected her inner ecosystem (mind/body learning dimension) with the living world around her (outer ecosystem, nature learning dimension) in ways that refreshed and revitalized the way she lives, works, and interacts with her clients.
She specifically references our use of seasonal metaphors and also the "grounding exercises" we do at the beginning of each session to help participants learn how to shift their energy from the fast pace of life and be fully present with each other. She says this experience has created some fundamental shifts in her work with clients to help individuals and teams help themselves to be happier, healthier and more effective in the way they do their work.
Jo has been a member of our community since May, 2023 and participated in Cohort 1 of the Regenerative Change leadership course.
Curious about how Regenerative Change can help you better navigate change and complexity, and create conditions for greater wellbeing, healthier relationships, and higher performance?
Join us for the next FREE Taster Session to experience regeneration in action, meet other change leaders from across the world, and peek behind the curtain on our Regenerative Change leadership course. Register here.
Stay tuned for more Regenerative Change Leader "Voices" in the coming weeks. If you want to stay current with these and other posts, please sign up for our "Regenerative Change Matters" newsletter here.
To learn more about Jo, please visit:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-masraff/
Websites: Agilists4Sustainability ; Green PO ; AND Digital
Regenerative Change Leader "Voices" - Meet Cherry Ward, Founder of Bluebird Leadership & Thriving Women
Cherry Ward is the Founder of Bluebird Leadership & Thriving Women where she brings a holistic approach to leadership, culture, and sustainability transformation. As a seasoned leader, consultant, facilitator, and executive coach, Cherry empowers leaders to drive systemic change. She integrates regenerative practices, inner development, and systems approaches to inspire organizations to make a positive, lasting impact on their ecosystems.
In this interview, Cherry says she wishes she had taken the Regenerative Change leadership course 10 years ago to help her increase her impact while she served in various senior leadership roles inside of large organizations. She appreciated that this course opened her up to different ways of thinking and being that are aligned with the natural rhythms, patterns and flows of nature.
Cherry specifically liked the seasoning exercises and embodiment practices that gave her greater access to her inner voice as well as ancient wisdoms that have helped her 'un-condition' some of her inherited ways of thinking and being, to see and address problems differently, to slow down, to allow things to emerge, and to show up differently in life. She says that she now deliberately finds time for 'wintering' inside of a world that places so much emphasis on 'summering' (i.e. growth, high energy, productivity, etc.) and she brings this wisdom to her clients. She now spends more time taking her clients outside, on walks, bringing them as close to nature as possible to coach them and to conduct her business.
Cherry has been a member of our community since May, 2023 and participated in Cohort 1 of the Regenerative Change leadership course.
Curious about how Regenerative Change can help you better navigate change and complexity, and create conditions for greater wellbeing, healthier relationships, and higher performance?
Join us for the next FREE Taster Session to experience regeneration in action, meet other change leaders from across the world, and peek behind the curtain on our Regenerative Change leadership course. Register here.
Stay tuned for more Regenerative Change Leader "Voices" in the coming weeks. If you want to stay current with these and other posts, please sign up for our "Regenerative Change Matters" newsletter here.
To learn more about Cherry, please visit:
Websites: www.bluebirdleadership.com ; www.thrivingwomen.co
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherryward/
Why do we need both Resilience and Regeneration for Navigating Change?
Leaders need all the help they can get when navigating complex challenges and change; especially as it relates to the clarity and courage it takes to make strategic decisions that support individual, team and organizational thrivability.
In our work with leaders and organizations, we have found significant inspiration and courage for personal and organizational change through a combination of Resilience and Regenerative principles and practices.
Resilience brings a broad framework of research and experience about mindsets and behaviors that people use to adapt and rebound from adversity, and to emerge stronger and more resourceful in difficult or challenging life experiences. Resilience guides leaders with a framework that helps them maintain the energy and stamina for long term change.
Simply said, Resilience:
identifies a capacity to recover from difficulties = mental toughness.
demonstrates the ability to spring back into shape = mental elasticity.
is focused on HOW you rebound (although it doesn’t mean you will never stumble).
Regeneration brings a biological perspective on what living systems do to emerge, evolve and thrive over time. Regeneration provides leaders with a framework for making policy, governance, and strategic decisions backed by a billion years of evolutionary wisdom (a.k.a. living systems principles).
Simply said, Regeneration:
brings fresh insight to leaders, teams and organizations.
restores hope and overcomes exhaustion.
supports a path for social innovation and behavior change.
Both Resilience and Regeneration bring principles and practices that can be used to refresh and renew sustainability, ESG, Climate, policy, and impact initiatives.
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