“I wanted my executive team to be in creative conflict together. You’ve delivered everything I wanted in the first week. I’ve never seen my executive team more connected.”
- Executive in city government
“My team struggled with moving through uncertainty. You aren’t consultants or OD people. They just teach us by talking at us. You’re human and deeply get our team.”
- Product leader in healthcare
“I was skeptical when I heard we were doing this program as a leadership team. I didn't really know what the Enneagram was. I can tell you now that I'm happy you're here.”
- Leader in an executive team
Define the challenge a team must address to break the status quo.
Step 2:
Reform the team around change
Map individual perspectives into team-level dialogue that builds curiosity.
Surface conflict and learn to signal, pause, name, share, and integrate as a team.
Facilitate experiences where teams practice change under real conditions.
An equation for Change Metabolism
We leave you with a new language and an equation to get your teams unstuck. Because each team is different, the Change Metabolism™ map we build for yours lets leaders clearly see the dynamics that lead to successful or failed acceptance of change.
Our methodology is ours. The philosophy belongs to everyone. That's why we're releasing the equation openly for anyone to use, so any team can start measuring what it can't yet metabolize.
(Mc) Change Metabolism: the ability to accept the reality of change at the same speed we execute it
(A) Acceptance: the degree to which people accept the reality of change
f(C) Conflict: the team's functional capacity to work well through conflict
(E) Execution: the speed at which we execute change beyond the status quo
Teams
We facilitate teams in transition, helping leaders reform their teams with greater awareness of their potential and how they metabolize change.
Monthly price per team
Sprint
Price per 30 day sprint
Leaders
We facilitate leaders in transition, coaching and integrating their whole leadership potential within their team and how they uniquely metabolize change.
Monthly price per leader
* Team prices are based on a team size of 4-10 people.
We also offer educational camps to teach up to 50 leaders and facilitators.
It began around 2008, building high-performing teams within the Federal Reserve System. It evolved through years of implementing change through innovation teams across industries, supported by team psychoanalytic assessments, and later through studying how coaching reduced burnout among family caregivers. Change Metabolism grew out of reforming hundreds of teams into subcultures with greater camaraderie, satisfaction, and creative output than the organizations around them.
Change Metabolism developed independently of established business change theory. Instead, it was shaped by humanistic work from both classic and modern thinkers in human transformation, including Carl Jung's exploration of the psyche and Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes's Enneagram model. Comparing it against the field later showed close kinship with William Bridges's work on transition. What's new is integrating these into a practice applied at the team level.
Not quite. Change management typically drives a specific initiative from the top, treating acceptance as something to produce through communication and sponsorship. We treat acceptance as a capacity teams build and keep. Change Metabolism works at the human level, helping teams accept the reality of change at the same speed they execute it, for this change and the next one.
We do not use the Enneagram as a traditional personality assessment tool. We use it as a thesaurus, a team map, and a decoder ring for how each person uniquely experiences change and conflict. It also reveals the potential of individuals and the team, and their unique paths toward growth through integration of the head, heart, and body.
Every engagement begins with individual and team awareness, then moves into on-the-job working sessions that reform how the team behaves around change. Each team is different, but we often see individual and team behavior change within the first 30 days. The program is designed to build habits that keep metabolizing change after we leave.