Pyramid to Circles

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.

Ludovic Boutin est l’un des piliers de la transformation de Décathlon vers un modèle qui capitalise sur le potentiel de ses collaborateurs. Il incarne par son parcours des valeurs fortes d’authenticité, de confiance et d’autonomie. Dans son témoignage particulièrment inspirant, découvrez une transformation unique vue et vécue de l’intérieur et les dispositifs concrets mis en oeuvre.

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.