Vertical Development

Traditional development approaches focus on horizontal development, or adding skills and tools to your bucket. Vertical Development helps leaders get a bigger bucket, or shift to more expansive ways of thinking, being, relating, and leading so they can hold more in their bucket. Said differently, we help leaders upgrade their operating system so they can navigate more complexity and meet the increasing demands of our rapidly evolving world. We don’t have to be done “growing up” when we reach adulthood. Vertical Development provides a map to help us navigate the terrain of adult development, which unfolds in a predictable, repeating, expanding pattern like the nautilus. 

To learn more about Vertical Development, we recommend the following resources: Understanding Vertical Development whitepaper, Nick Petrie’s website, and Jan Rybeck’s resources. In addition, feel free to Contact Us to go deeper.

Enneagram

The Enneagram is an incredibly dynamic personal development system that describes 9 personality types, explains how we get stuck in unhelpful personality patterns, and guides us to outgrow those patterns by “coming home" to our true nature. We provide Typing Interviews to help clients find their type and then use the Enneagram’s wisdom to unlock revolutionary shifts for individuals and teams. Once again, we love the way the Enneagram helps clients find themselves in the repeating patterns found in human nature…and how it helps them expand beyond the limitations of those patterns. And best of all, this system syncs up seamlessly with Vertical Development and the Leadership Circle Profile.

To learn more about the Enneagram, please visit the website of our Enneagram teachers Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes, Chestnut-Paes Enneagram Academy, or Contact Us

Appreciative Inquiry

Appreciative inquiry (AI) is an approach to change rooted in inquiry and grounded in affirmation and appreciation. It is the study of what gives life to human systems when they function at their best and is based on the assumption that questions and dialogue about strengths, successes, values, hopes and dreams are themselves transformational. We believe people individually and collectively have unique gifts, skills, and contributions to bring to life. And, we see organizations as human social systems, sources of unlimited relational capacity, created and lived in language. You are not problems to be fixed but rather whole beings to be integrated with balance. We use appreciative inquiry in our assessments, feedback, our coaching and in organizational design.

To learn more about appreciative inquiry, please visit the website of our AI assessment partner, Shift+ 360 or Contact Us