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What is a growth edge?

Jennifer Garvey Berger, co-founder and CEO of Cultivating Leadership, explains the meaning behind a "growth edge," a developmental tool to help you think about where your points of growth may be.

JGB IDG 2023

Jennifer hosts Getting over ourselves:How we hinder our own inner development. Join Jennifer and a cast of coaches exploring how our light casts shadows, and fear of our shadows gets in the way of growth. What might be possible with a 2-3% shift of each?

Unleash Your Complexity Genius: Growing Your Inner Capacity to Lead

Laurel interviews Carolyn about her and Jennifer's new book, Unleash Your Complexity Genius: Growing Your Inner Capacity to Lead

Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps - Simple Stories

We are storytellers by nature, regularly seeing ourselves as heroes and others as villains... and these Simple Stories might be the trappiest trap of all. Here Princess Jennifer Garvey Berger introduces this Mindtrap, why we fall into it, and how to escape. To learn more, stay tuned for additional videos and check out Jennifer's book Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps: How to Thrive in Complexity - https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Lead...

Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps - Control

Holding too tightly when we cannot be in control actually makes things worse, and yet our bodies are wired to encourage our desire for control. In this video, Jennifer Garvey Berger introduces the Mindtrap of Control, why we fall into it, and how to escape. To learn more, stay tuned for additional videos check out Jennifer's book Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps: How to Thrive in Complexity - https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Lead...

Leading in Complexity: Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan in conversation with Jennifer Garvey Berger

Vas and Jennifer talk about the journey to grow yourself to lead in complexity.

Meet the Mindtraps

An especially animated Jennifer Garvey Berger introduces the five Leadership Mindtraps, why we're designed to fall into them, and how to escape them. To learn more, stay tuned for additional videos check out Jennifer's book Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps: How to Thrive in Complexity - https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Leadership-Mindtraps-Thrive-Complexity/dp/1503609014

Meeting in complexity

When your team is dealing with complex challenges then you need to run your meetings differently from the normal approach. In complexity there are so many variables that there is no right answer to be found. How do you run a meeting that is exploratory and still makes progress on the challenges you face? Keith Johnston has some suggestions to make in this short video.

How to run a successful virtual meeting

There is a lot out there about how to be in a virtual meeting but much less about the challenge of running virtual meetings well. Keith Johnston has been leading these meetings for years and he describes the key points he has learnt along the way.

Mindtraps Webinar session 3

Jennifer concludes the series of three Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps by leading a discussion about sharing these ideas with others. With whom do you want to share Mindtraps? What have you done so far? What do you need in order to feel confident and comfortable?

Mindtraps Webinar session 2

Join us in an interactive engagement with the Mindtraps. Below are some notes to find particular topics. 00.37 Centering exercise 03:45 Poem, Sometimes by David Whyte 05:26 A word about hopes for the time together 07:40 Poll: what is the trappiest trap for you? 08:30 Simple Stories 17:15 Rightness 18:30 Types of Listening demonstration 22:56 Listening to Win 26:00 Listening to Fix 30:00 Listening to Learn 37:27 What slips you out of listening to learn into Win or Fix? 41:10 Q&A 49:12 Agreement, with movie clip and noticings 54:30 Bodily

Mindtraps Webinar session 1

Jennifer talks about the life changing ideas in her book, Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps. She proposes ways we can identify and escape those traps when they don't serve us in complex situations.

Self Organisation and Basins of Attraction (with a little help from Jacinda Ardern)

With a little help from Jacinda Ardern, Keith explores the complexity concepts of self-organisation and basins of attraction, how the Old Boys Network organises itself to stay the same, and he ends up left holding the baby rather than a vegan biker’s burger.

Boundaries Define Complex Systems

In the 3rd of our animations on complex systems Emperor Keithius explores how the boundaries we create shape our thinking on complex challenges and the decisions we make about them.

Jamming On Complexity

In which Keith gets jammed in heavy traffic.  He uses this and organisational examples to explain how in complexity it is the relationships between elements that create the character of the system.  No 2. in his series on complex adaptive systems.