Pyramid to Circles

In this episode, Diane Musho Hamilton explores how the two polarities, Sameness and Otherness, impact group dynamics profoundly. Learn practical tips to navigate these forces in groups and organizations, and get insights on how to integrate these polarities in service of transformation.

Diane Musho Hamilton is an award-winning mediator and a teacher of Zen meditation. She is recognized for her skills in facilitating difficult conversations related to race, gender, and religion. She began working with Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute in 2004 and for fifteen years has held transformative containers for people interested in their own development.

B Corp is  a movement that brings together thousands of companies worldwide and that seeks to transform the economy by demonstrating, through the achievements of the B Corp community, that it is possible to reconcile the profit motive (for profit) and the collective interest (for purpose). Their standards  affect not only companies' business models and value chains, but also that drives a cultural transformation. You can not be exactly the same person in a B Corp. Their approach is an invitation for becoming more conscious and mindful of our ecosystems as companies, and also as people. In this episode, I interview Augustin Boulot, Executive Director of B Lab France. To know more, visit www.bcorporation.net

Christiane is a self-organization specialist, TED speaker, coach and an entrepreneur. She has been among the first to teach and implement Holacracy since 2009. Her journey has led her to address in a very deep way the People dimension of self-organization. In her new book called “New Stories of Love, Power and Purpose”, she invites us to understand our human potential and gives us some tools to unleash it. In this interview, she lays out some key distinctions that help me refine even deeper my understanding of what self organization means. In particular:

• What does self-organization actually mean if you look closer?
• What in the powershift is the most difficult for leaders?
• Why do words such as “leaders” do not make sense anymore in Self-organizations?
• The need to distinct and address two connected but totally different contexts, People and Organization, what it means and and how to address them?
• The definition of Purpose as an evolutionary need, distinct from a fabricated need.
• The understanding of people as Purpose agent and what it means in the organization culture.
• and much more!

I warmly recommend this podcast for people passionate and willing to deepen their understanding of the subtle but radical changes at play when we evolve towards self-organization. To know more about about Christiane, her services and her books, visit https://christianesplace.com

Au sein du groupe Orange, Fabienne et Bruno occupent chacun des fonctions managériales dans lesquelles ils sont au cœur de la transformation agile de l’entreprise. Tous les deux ont déployé et maîtrisent l’agilité à l’échelle (SAFE) et  la Gouvernance Adaptative, une approche de l’auto-organisation inspirée de l’Holacracy et adaptée aux grandes entreprises. Dans cet épisode, ils partagent leur expérience de la complémentarité des 2 approches. Un épisode utile pour comprendre comment différents frameworks d’agilité de pilotage de grands projet complexes d’un côté, et d’agilité organisationnelle de l’autre, se complètent et contribuent à construire une nouvelle culture.

Brian is the founder of Holacracy and of HolacracyOne, the company that supports the growth of Holacracy. He sees his work today as “allowing leaders to release the reins of personal power and persuasion into a trustworthy and explicit governance process”. In this episode he shares his profound vision of leadership. He also explains why and how working with tensions  is essential to navigate complexity and introduces the new version of Holacracy, enabling a more adaptive integration in organizations. He also shares about his personal journey of self-transformation and his core values. A wonderful conversation with one of the thought leaders of our field. Interested in adopting Holacracy in your organization? Visit https://www.holacracy.org

ICA is the Sweden #1 supermarket chain, with over 23 000 employees, 1300 stores across the country,  generating 100  Billion Euros of revenue. ICA has undertaken a very large agile transformation that has become a benchmark and a true inspiration for many companies in Sweden and all over Europe. The secret sauce of their success : make the transformation of matters of culture first, before any methods. Marvin Lilegren is the  “Head of User Experience & Design” at ICA and has been instrumental at the core of this story. In this episode, he lays out the step by step approach and key success factors of the ICA’s agile transformation journey. The principles he explains apply for any industry. Follow-us on https://www.linkedin.com/company/pyramid-to-circles/

Polytechnicien, ayant travaillé 20 ans dans l'Internet dans la Silicon Valley, en Europe  et en Chine, Sébastien a vécu un burn out qui l’a conduit à s’intéresser au rôle de l'ego et à l’importance de l’écoute  dans les entreprises. Il a développé l’Écoute Progressive, une technique basée sur des principes d'humilité, de bienveillance et de confiance en l'humain, qu'il dévoile dans cet épisode
En 2019 Sébastien a créé Tirezio, un cabinet qui accompagne les organisations en forte croissance ou en transformation qui veulent soutenir  le développement des individus à l’échelle mais n'ont pas forcément les moyens d'offrir du coaching “classique” à tous leurs collaborateurs. Pour en savoir plus : https://www.tirezio.com

Pernilla Wikman is the VP, Head of Global Business at Telia, the leading Swedish Telco company. Based on her long personal exploration in the field of learning organizations, she has initiated in her division a deep culture transformation promoting self-managed and autonomous teams. In this episode she shares her experience, the results obtained, as well as very concrete insights on how to lead the change. In particular, she introduces the 5 transformational areas that volunteer teams are invited to explore : Why, Me, We, Focus and Self-Organization.

I have been truly  inspired by this conversation, and by how Pernilla  is driven by a desire to continuously learn.

Adam Rosendahl is a facilitator, experience designer, and the Founder of Late Nite Art® - a creative learning and development lab. For the past 10 years, he has traveled the globe, supporting teams to improve creative confidence and deepen connection beyond the roles people play at work. His clients include Pixar, Stanford, LinkedIn... In this episode, he shares how to build psychological safety in a team so people can address greater challenges together. He brings numerous practical insights that leaders and facilitators easily can take inspiration from.

Atalwin Pilon is the founder of 100 Day Warrior, a spiritual and physical transformation program that creates the conditions for talented human beings to rise above themselves. This life-changing journey enables consciousness shifts, as well as renewed energy and meaning. Atalwin’s approach to transformation, by combining body and mind, is refreshing, highly innovative and quite unique. He inspires leaders to prepare themselves to face whatever challenges life throws at them. In this episode, he shares his personal journey that led him to create this program. Visit www.100daywarrior.com for more details.

Co-fondateur et Directeur d'Orange Campus Management, l'université d'entreprise d'Orange qui s'occupe des 20 000 managers du groupe pour des programmes de formation et de transformation, Jean-François Hadida est aussi conférencier; sa passion : décortiquer les comportements managériaux pour favoriser leur évolution et permettre à l’entreprise et aux humains qui y travaillent de mieux faire face à un environnement toujours plus complexe, volatile et incertain. Créatif et passionné, Jean-François partage dans ce podcast ses convictions sur la transformation managériale, construite sur plus de 10 années d’accompagnement au plus près des dirigeants du leader français des Telco.

PDG du groupe Armor depuis 2004, Hubert a conduit cette ETI française de 2500 collaborateurs dans 30 pays à multiplier par 4 son chiffre d'affaires, à racheter son concurrent américain jusqu'à devenir aujourd’hui le leader mondial sur son marché. Ayant mis l’innovation, le développement durable et l'entrepreneuriat au cœur de sa stratégie, Hubert dirige cette entreprise à partir de convictions humanistes et spirituelles profondes qu’il partage dans son livre L'Esprit souffle, suis-le” (ed. Mame, 2021). Son message:  “La priorité de l’entreprise n’est pas la maximisation du profit, mais bien son rôle de transformation de la société en profondeur, pour construire un monde plus humain et plus juste”.
Dans cet épisode, il parle longuement de son cheminement, et de sa posture de leader entre liberté intérieure et vulnérabilité.

In this podcast, we turn the microphone. My friend and business partner Chloé Grabli interviews me. I share my convictions, my experience as a change agent, in particular my journey in collective intelligence, Holacracy, Adaptive Governance, as well as the story of Fabric, the one of the book I just published, and some of the lessons I learned in 20 years working with dozens of organisations... I also share the deeper reasons that drive me in this life and career path. I found this moment very authentic and intimate. I even said some secrets about me I had never told so far..! I hope it will inspire the listeners in their own journey.

For the last 15 years, Thomas Thomison has been developing Holacracy® into a replacement for conventional management power hierarchies. In 2015, he co-launched encode.org to upgrade underlying business legal, capital, and social structures with the same self-organizing principles. In this podcast, Tom shares the deep convictions that led him dedicate his career to create organisations that truly respect people and enable their potentiel to reveal itself. He explains many of the fundamental distinctions to understand how to shift from a centralised to a decentralised power system. A chance to get those directly from the source.

Michelle is a seasoned facilitator, speaker and researcher, as well as author of The Age of Thrivability: Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World. She lives in Montreal. In this episode, Michelle explains the 4 life universal design conditions and how to apply them in organisations. She brings advanced distinctions to help understand what it takes to shift from a mechanistic to a living system culture and explains how companies can be practice grounds for reinventing our world. A highly inspiring conversation addressing the core of the culture shift we need to evolve towards agile, resilient and adaptive organisations.

In this episode, I have the pleasure to receive my business partner. Axel has over 20 years of experience in the field of organizational transformation. He has worked on 100+ projects in over 30 listed companies. He presents the 6 practices that we, at Fabric (https://fabric.team), bring to our clients as they evolve from pyramid-matrix to self-organization. Axel draws from his extensive experience actionable insights to succeed change.

Roche is a leading global healthcare company. Over the last few  years, it has undertaken a major cultural transformation to become agile and digital, that many see as a reference. Alain Bindels has been a key actor in the design and the facilitation of this journey from its beginning . He shares his insider experience, explains in detail how Roche led this transformation successfully, the challenges they met, and the company's new focus on innovation.

Itziar Canamasas holds a PhD in tumor genetics. She works at Bayer Pharmaceuticals as Head of Oncology for the region Europe, Middle East and Africa. There, she pioneers new ways of working that favor empowerment and agility. In this episode, Itziar shares about the business challenges she faces and how to address them with a new approach. She gives many tips from her own experience on how to build a more networked and empowered organization, drawing on the energy of people.

Flora is the co-founder of Thaé (https://thae.fr), a philosophy agency based in Paris. She uses Philosophy to support managers leading the change. She draws from Epictetus, Krishnamurti, Spinoza, Bergson, Arendt or Socrates very concrete practices that challenge the way we think. In this conversation, we discuss why reasoning is key to collective intelligence, the power of questions, how to use company values effectively, and much more.

Sociocracy 3.0 is an innovative and comprehensive social technology for evolving agile and resilient organisations at any size. S3 offers a menu of transformational patterns from which teams and individuals can pick from and apply, one step at the time (see more at https://sociocracy30.org). In this podcast, James shares the journey that brought him to co-creating S3, and brings fundamental distinctions and advice that leaders and changemakers can apply to take their role to a new level.

Meet Norman Wolfe, author of The Living Organization (2011) ; he inspired Frederic Laloux for his book Reinventing Organisations.

In this episode, Norman explains why most of the transformation programs fail. He brings his refreshing vision of organisations as human beings and how to tune our intuition  to deeply understand them. He also explains the the notion of context, the "story" driving the organization, and the necessity to consciously replace it with a new one if you want to generate the collective behaviors that will enable reaching the expected outcome. A must-have lesson for change makers who wants to understand the fundamentals of culture transformation.

In this first episode, Mickael Drouard, co-founder of Fabric (www.fabric.team) and host of the podcast introduces why he decided to broadcast  and what to expect from the episodes to come.