What is Zen Organisations?

This is my blog, where I share ideas on what it takes to confidently lead a successsful organisation.

I’ve been doing this for a living since 2012 – I help leaders make their business successful by working with them to create a real strategy, enabling their people to productively work together, and lifting their leadership game.  This happens under my business name Thompson Organisations, which is just me – so you always work directly with the owner.

If you’d like to confidently lead a more successful organisation or team, just send me an email by clicking here and we’ll simply find a time to have a chat about it.  You can also follow me on LinkedIn.

Why Zen Organisations?  I’m no expert on Zen,  but I do know what Zen means to me – it is when we get out of our own way.  It is about the concept of being actually present, engaged  – not to mean not trying, but to not be fighting an internal battle with ourselves or an external battle with our environment.

My speciality is working with growing organisations that have reached a size where things are starting to feel out of control…or with established organisations who can feel that their current conditions and strategic imperatives are going to require them to become responsive, agile and creative…while still delivering today.

With over 25 years of organisational leadership experience, including over a decade of organisational consulting, the trademark of my work is engaging expertise with a touch of humour (because real change needs it!)  I bring together a vast and evolving knowledge of strategic, organisational, systems and people models to create insight and understandings that are bespoke for each situation.  This then leads to personal and organisational changes that just make sense.  And work.

I help organisations in-person within South Australia, and via video anywhere in the world.  I work in both the social sector and the for-profit sector, and also include mutuals, membership and sporting organisations.  Drawing on disciplines of strategic thinking, work and system design, behavioural and cultural change along with individual development, my work creates a virtuous circle of engaged people….. leading to more valuable outcomes…..leading to engaged people….. and we spiral up.

If this sounds like what you would like to be leading, send me an email by clicking here. We’ll just find a time to have a conversation which you’ll find very clarifying at the minimum.  And if you like, you can follow me on LinkedIn.

All the best,

Adam.