Leading from the Roots: Nature Inspired Leadership Lessons

Learn how models from nature can help leaders understand how their organizations function.

Introduction

• Introduction

1. Why Leading with a Living System Mindset Optimizes Organizational Resilience and Vitality

• How living systems inform us to lead
• Multigenerational leadership
• People respond to being treated as a living human
• Adaptation and innovation are natural ways of being
• Objectification in organizations
• Self-made solutions

2. How Living Systems Behave

• Interdependence, diversity, resilience, constant change, feedback, and information
• Why interdependence is essential

3. Assess Your Organization

• Adaptive cycle
• PDF exercise introduction
• Interdependent systems and leadership
• System thinking
• Why relationships matter and relationship competency

4. Evolve with Feedback and Information

• Assessment of your company
• Resistance within the company
• Noticing dynamics

5. Living Systems Will Help Us Transform Our Organizations

• Seventh-generational thinking

6. Organizations in the Flow

• Energy flows are a great diagnostic on the health of the system
• Adaptive cycles are critical to regenerative capacity

7. Explore, Sustain, Launch, and Release!

• Balcony metaphor—spotting movement and patterns
• Explore and sustain
• Launch and release
• Organizational assessment

8. Form and Patterns

• Overview of forms and patterns
• Ask your employees about forms and patterns

9. Feedback Loops

• Shifting the way you think about and practice leadership
• The value of feedback and information
• Feedback, transparency, and changing patterns within an organization
• Feedback loops curb excess
• Feedback loops and working from home
• Feedback loops and leadership changing summary

Conclusion

• Working with the living systems form
• Overview summary of living systems thinking