In our modern culture, organizational dynamics are often chalked up to nothing more than a range of variables that are oriented to value, performance, and profit optimization. It is not uncommon for these to comprise the whole of a company’s interests. It is not uncommon, in other words, for herculean efforts to be waged in these directions without ever having discerned whether these three (value, performance and profit) were ever observed within the wider range of considerations that would allow a verdict as to whether these efforts amounted to any true good.
In my counselling practice, I routinely observed the very real ways that work, so undiscerned—so unassessed in its broader implications to the broader public—gnaws and tears at the spirit of those who perform it. Over and over, I saw it proven that human beings aren’t made for just any kind of work—that humans are made to do profound good with the skills and innovations that we are capable of rendering.
Where people are under resourced, is not in the territory of their readiness to work hard or efficiently, therefore, but in discerning how to find the best application of these capacities for the good of their neighbour and communities at large. People are under resourced in the awareness that it is possible to establish modes of work that don’t require a business owner to betray the aspects of their humanity that they are otherwise prized for in the other essential domains of their lives—domains like community, family, spirituality and physical health. Domains that require the best of their humanity in order to prosper.
I witnessed that, while we are made for such good and such corresponding work, too often entire educational paths and careers are waged without ever having paused to ask about the meaning in it all, about the impact on one’s neighbour and society.
It is my interest to join organizational leaders, business owners and leading employees who wish to slow enough to gain proper sight of the work that receives so much of their energy, so much of them. In our glimpse at it all, it is both a great adventure and a privilege to help organizations and their leaders find a better story to tell—both, about the organization they had been building, and, about the one they ought to; the one waiting to emerge.
If you are interested in listening for something truer and more beautiful—an optimization of your and your organization’s gifts and capacities that is oriented, not merely to profit and efficiency, but kind and careful innovation—I’d love to meet with you and learn more about your needs. Perhaps there’s something we have on offer that could benefit you along the way. It would be my honour to meet with you to discern as much, and I’m grateful that you’ve taken the time to consider it here.