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PODCASTS EXPLORING VERTICAL EVOLUTION
Pete Holliday and Dave Yeates lead WHAT'S NXT
Pete and Dave are both experts in Integral Theory and Vertical Development. They have been interviewing advocates of vertical evolution to share their stories, challenges, insights, and solutions. Here's my version! Click on the pic to listen/watch on YouTube.
Watch on YouTube
Lyssa deHart, Master Coach @The Coaching Studio
Lyssa deHart, a US-based Master Coach, interviews other Master Coaches to share their journey with others. I hope you'll enjoy our conversation talking through what led me into Vertical Development. We explore insights into expanding our consciousness and cultivating our self identity to uplift our coaching presence and elevate our own life experience. Click on the pic to watch on YouTube.
Listen on Spotify
Jeff and Mindi Caselden lead Caselden Chats
Jeff and Mindi invite diverse perspectives to explore today's challenges in shifting to the leadership of a more sustainable, healthy, and equitable world. A diversity of voices sharing different points of view. Click on the pic to watch on YouTube.
Watch on YouTube
ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
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Enjoy the first two chapters of Executive Coaching in Strategic Holistic Leadership to find out more about the History and Stages of Transformation. Discover the Strengths and Shadows in Executive Archetypes.
“It is more vital than ever before that leaders develop the ability to take multiple perspectives, think systemically, consider the long-term effects of decisions and base them on the best of available scientific evidence – this book offers a path to help leaders acquire these later stage characteristics.”
—Susanne Cook-Greuter, Strategic Advisor & Research Director, Vertical Development Academy
Antoinette’s brilliant work creates an effective, practical and grounded approach to guide coaches and leaders in a pivotal arc in the developmental spectrum to see what is not yet seen and heal underlying hidden dilemmas not yet identified.
—Terri O'Fallon, Founder & Partner of STAGES International
“This is a much-needed, research-based book that has already helped me to refine my coaching!”
—Maureen Metcalf, Founder & CEO, Innovative Leadership Institute
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Senior Executive Development to a mature Synergist Mindset 3 times faster than usual i.e., in just 1-2 years instead of 5-6, if ever.
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Vertical Perspectives Underpin Leadership
At Conventional 3rd Perspective are the fixed Specialist and growth Achievist Mindsets. Their focus is thriving in a conventional competitive business context.
At Postconventional 4th Perspective are the curious Catalyst and open Synergist Mindsets. They underpin the journey through more contemporary approaches to leadership development that enable leaders to lead collaborative synergy.
Visionary Inspiring Purposeful Leadership
VERTICAL MINDSET & EXECUTIVE ROLE FIT
A match between Vertical Mindset and Executive Role Level enables effective leadership and personal growth across all levels of the organization. This chart simplifies and activates organic growth, unlocking latent potential to more mature levels of human development needed today in human-centric enterprises.
Synergists Flourish in Senior Executive Roles
If you have a growth Achievist or curious Catalyst Mindset in a Synergist-level role, you will feel out of sorts, out of synch, and out of depth. Unless you know how to lead transformative evolution for self and other, system and culture, you're stalled and work can become overwhelming. You can free yourself by developing an open Synergist Mindset and applying the proven StageSHIFT knowhow to uplift the collective system and culture you lead!
A SELECTION OF VALUABLE ARTICLES ON VERTICAL DEVELOPMENT
Beer et al, HBR
They advise that corporations are victims of the great training robbery! They suggest organisational redesign to enable the system to change is essential for leaders to change. They also don't appreciate vertical development to Synergist when the two become synonymous.
Antoinette Braks
Braks presents the drivers and dynamics of vertical development to Synergist following a multiple case study where 80% of Strategic Leaders shifted one stage and 20% shifted two stages to SYNERGIST after an average of 8 * 90-min Transformative Coaching Sessions.
Antoinette Braks
Braks presents the 5 Active Coaching Ingredients that facilitated Vertical Development from Achievist to Synergist in one year drawing on coaching and vertical development literature.
Barrett Brown
A terrific business-oriented read on how more conscious business intersects with Vertical Leadership Development.
Barrett Brown
One of the most diligent and compelling summaries of vertical development in relation to business. "Meet complexity with consciousness."
Susanne Cook-Greuter
A thorough evidence-based and sophisticated lens to view and understand the individual stages of development through the eyes of one of the most erudite and compassionate researchers in stage leadership development in this era.
Jones, Chesley & Egan
The trio explored the implementation of vertical development in 15 large organisations. They found that a conscious open mindset, leadership principles and later stage executive coaches who had navigated vertical development themselves, were critical to outcomes.
Kaiser & Kaplan
The authors focus on the inner game of leadership and take it to a deeper level of shadow resolution in relation to failure, inadequacy, rejection and dependency. Doesn't go quite as far as spiritual intelligence but it's going in that direction.
Kilburg
Kilburg explores the significance of resolving shadow as part of the executive coach's repertoire. He provides examples of coaching conversations to illuminate the psychodynamics approach for practitioners.
Frederic Laloux
Laloux illustrates the evolution of organizations through the similar lens of Spiral Dynamics. He focuses on shifts through to creating self-managing holistic organization at Teal.
McCauley et al
McCauley and friends look at the stages of development through the eyes of Kegan, Torbert & Kohlberg to better appreciate the demonstration of increasingly effective leadership in relation to vertical development.
Moldoveanu & Narayandas
They advise that 50% of senior leaders realise their talent development efforts don’t build critical skills and organisational capabilities. They're right but their answer that development go digital is insufficient, it needs to go vertical as well.
Terri O'Fallon
A complex and intricate exploration of the stages in terms of the Tiers and Zones of inner and outer development in the Individual and Collective quadrants.
Nick Petrie
He provides a great introduction to the concept of vertical development vs. horizontal development and the expanding capacity of leadership from Conformist to Achievist and onto Synergist.
Nick Petrie
Petrie extends his introduction to encapsulate some ideas on the who, what and how of vertical development. It's a great initiation although I would add the inclusion of later stage perspectives to facilitate vertical development.
PWC Report
In collaboration with Rooke at Harthill Consultants, PwC expose vertical development and offer new statistics over the last two decades in relation to the executive population. They extol the value of Synergists in organisations.
Jonathan Reams
Reams takes us through the history of Adult Development and how this body of knowledge and continuing research relates to executive leadership development.
Rooke & Torbert
One of the most popular articles on leadership ever published in the Harvard Business Review. Pragmatic examples and statistical distribution of executives operating at different stages of development.
Rooke & Torbert
The only longitudinal research study reviewing organisational transformations and business performance in relation to the vertical development of their leaders and executive teams. Evidence of the need for transformative CEOs at Synergist+..
Reinhard Stelter
Stelter takes the lid off developmental coaching taking us to a new generation of transformative coaching that includes mutual insight and meaning-making as foundational to the discovery dialogue in a coaching partnership.
Vincent et al
Vincent undertakes a substantial research study of 335 adults attending Community Leadership Programs in South Australia. She measures their vertical stage development before and after the programs in contrast to a control group.
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