Hatch what's next
Are you stuck between the status quo and what's next?
We design cultures and teams that metabolize change, so it stops costing you rework, resistance, and burnout.
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Distortion
The “new” quietly reshapes itself to look just like the “old.” Teams hold onto the illusion that they’re changing while they operationalize the status quo. What gets celebrated as progress is really rework that never creates what’s next.
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Imbalance
Change is decided at the top and handed down. Teams are left outside a future they had no part in shaping, and that separation wears away their sense of belonging. Resistance is how people protect a place they’re afraid to lose.
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Strain
We rush decisions to escape the chaos of ambiguity. Our teams’ nervous systems react by shutting down conflict, instead of responding to it in healthy ways. Over time, the lack of movement towards something new is experienced as burnout.
Changing how we change
Metabolizing at the speed of change
“He said that the future was already here, but nobody listens to the future. The future is all around us, but we don’t see the future yet. We don’t hear it or see it, so we can’t tell it.” (Bruce Sterling, Love Is Strange)
Change Metabolism is a practiced team skill to metabolize the future that is already here. It lets your team accept the reality of change at the speed they (with AI) can execute it. Teams unlearn and relearn faster, and they break the status quo instead of rebuilding it.
Invest in your people to transform culture from the bottom up, not from top-down programs that never stick.
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Signal
We notice something and think, feel, or sense we don’t fit any longer.
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Pause
We don't act on it yet until we sense it’s right to do so.
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Name
We say what we think is happening without controlling it.
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Share
We take in what others experience, feel it, and then share our own.
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Integrate
We choose to be part of a story that's different from today.
For Venture Leaders
The status quo
My venture teams have to outrun the organizational culture that is funding them. The human operation system we inherited gets innovation stuck invisibly.
The hatch
I want my team executing at entrepreneurial speeds. How do I create a culture that works in extreme ambiguity?
For People Leaders
The status quo
The hatch
For Change Leaders
The status quo
The hatch
We're good at one thing (change)
Four ways to start cracking
We aren’t consultants. We are masterful coaches, facilitators, and teachers who know how to transform learning into shared action through beautifully designed work experiences, workshops, workgroups, and workteams. We do this by working inside your culture, unlearning old ways of working by relearning how to unlock the whole potential and creative capacity of every person.
Change
Sprints and leadership programs that build your team's metabolic capacity.
Imagine
Coaching and future casting to help leaders see what's next through design fiction.
Learn
On-demand learning and micro-coaching through our online community.
Retreat
In-person retreats to immerse yourself, or your team, in the Enneagram.
A change case study
“My executive team feels like they can be successful owning change and pulling it forward.”
Ed Zuercher, City Manager, City of Phoenix
What was stuck
The City Manager wanted to help his executive team co-create a culture of customer service together. With over 40 different departments and 14,000 employees, leadership connection was focused around execution with limited space for shared exploration. How might they operate the city ambidextrously, exploring civic innovation through its culture of service to the community?
What was hatched
The Change Metabolism Leadership Program helped leaders gain awareness of the potential of the team and conflict style through the Enneagram. The team worked together to change in a whole new way. Over 90 days, the team increased their awareness of how they uniquely metabolize change, building momentum that lasted after the program ended.
An Enneagram certified organization
Connecting how humans and business change together
We bring phenomenology to business. It’s a fancy word for studying the first-person experience of change, what it actually feels like to live through it. That’s where humans and business realize their shared potential together. We integrate the Enneagram into cultures as a thesaurus, journey map, and decoder ring to metabolize change in ways that let inner work and outer work move together.
We love to meet new people. Start a conversation with us and we'll send you a quick note right back. If you have an aversion to online forms, just email us at hello@fresheg.gs. Or skip ahead and use the not-so-secret button below to book a 15-minute discovery meeting.