Change
Start metabolizing change
We don't help you better manage change. We build teams with the capacity to metabolize change into shared action.
01
Learn
Leaders and their teams learn to see the behaviors that slow their acceptance of change.
02
Practice
On the job, teams practice new ways of metabolizing change into shared action together.
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Facilitate
Organizations map how their teams metabolize change and how they work through conflict.
How it works
Reforming three-centered teams
Using the Enneagram to reform teams around change, we build team-level change capacity into your culture in 15- or 30-day sprints, team by team.
Instead of training you how to change, we reform teams around real cultural, operational, service, or product challenges and facilitate the practice of new team-based change skills on the job.
Every sprint leaves a working team skill, a process to follow, momentum on a real challenge, and a team change metabolism report with integration suggestions.
Open for anyone to use
An equation for Change Metabolism™
We leave you with a new language and an equation to get your teams unstuck. The Change Metabolism map we build for each team shows leaders the dynamics behind successful or failed acceptance of change.
Our methodology is ours. The philosophy belongs to everyone. That's why we're releasing the equation openly, so any team can start measuring what it can't yet metabolize. If you’re interested in our research, we can bring our measurement program into your culture to analyze team coherence and meeting conversations as an indicator of metabolism.
The equation
Mc=A×f(C)÷E
Mc
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 as it's happening.
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.
For teams
Teams
We coach teams in transition, helping leaders reform their teams with greater awareness of their potential and how they metabolize change.
Team Enneagram assessments
Team member Enneagram debriefs
Enneagram teaming workshop
13 weekly 1:1 coaching sessions
3 Enneagram team workshops
On-call micro-coaching
Monthly price per team (for 90 days)
$5,000
Most popular
Sprint
We facilitate change sprints over 15- or 30-day cycles, accelerating awareness, conflict, and change metabolism in teams at important moments of change.
Everything in teams coaching
Applied work on a real challenge
Facilitated design thinking work
Integrative team member coaching
4 Metabolism team workshops
Change metabolism team report
Price per 30-day sprint
$25,000
For leaders
Leaders
We coach leaders in transition, integrating their whole leadership potential within their team and how they uniquely metabolize change.
Leader Enneagram assessment
Leader Enneagram debrief
13 weekly 1:1 coaching sessions
Fully bespoke content and tools
On-call micro-coaching
Coaching journey report
Monthly price per leader (for 90 days)
$2,500
Testimonials
“My executives loved the Enneagram. They can’t get enough. The anchor challenge took them a while to warm up to, but now they’re cranking on it. They feel like they can be successful owning it.”
Ed Zuercher (City Manager, Phoenix)
“My team struggled moving through uncertainty. I didn’t know what to expect initially when we started this engagement, but it has been incredibly helpful, and that’s an understatement.”
Senior 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.”
Senior leader on an executive team
About the facilitator
Jon Kohrs
Isn’t this change management?
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.
What originated this work?
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.
What research was it built on?
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.
Why use the Enneagram?
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.
How quickly do you see change?
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.
Book a 15-minute discovery meeting, or email us at hello@fresheg.gs.