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- Acquire knowledge on stakeholders (including the customer) and their needs and limits, the work, how the work works, the waste, the anti-patterns, the problem space, the opportunities, the evidence value can be harvested, behaviors and habits
- Foster a humane performance climate and enable succession planning that protects and improves it
- Develop responsiveness and flow across value networks
- Nurture emergence and adaptiveness in a direction with clarity
- Engage people, including customers and colleagues.
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Evolved leadership–think different, enable extraordinary
In today's fast-paced world, leadership needs to move beyond the old-fashioned ways to tackle future challenges. Evolved leadership is about changing our leadership by embracing new ideas, understanding others, and being flexible.
Here's what Evolved Leadership means:
Evolved Leadership should be at all levels. It includes stimulating learning and adaptation in a direction, embracing uncertainty and failures, gathering first-hand information to make effective decisions, managing risk, and eliminating organizational inefficiencies. A leader is someone who demonstrates leadership habitually.
As a change agent, leaders should generally invite people to participate. Emergent change is the change.
Think Different
It's time to break away from the usual leadership styles. Evolved leaders encourage innovative thinking and creative solutions. They question the norm, welcome uncertainty, and are open to new ideas and technologies.
By adopting a way of thinking that sees possibilities, they turn challenges into opportunities for growth.
Enable Extraordinary
Evolved leaders enable individuals and teams to unlock their full potential. Instead of just managing people, they inspire and guide them towards their highest goals. They help teams achieve outstanding results beyond what people usually expect by providing the right resources, support, and freedom.
Lead with Purpose
Evolved leaders connect their teams to a larger mission, making their work more meaningful. They lead from ethics, fostering trust and commitment within the group. When everyone shares the same vision, it drives success together.
Foster Adaptability and Resilience
Change is constant, so evolved leaders promote flexibility. They encourage a culture where learning, trying new things, and bouncing back from setbacks are essential. This way, individuals and organizations become stronger and more capable of handling uncertainty.
Champion Inclusivity
Good leadership is about people. Evolved leaders prioritize emotional intelligence and compassion, recognizing the importance of understanding and valuing everyone's contributions. They build cognitively diverse teams where every voice is heard and appreciated, leading to collective success.
Create Lasting Impact
Evolved leadership isn't just about quick wins; it focuses on making a lasting difference. These leaders aim to create sustainable cultures and systems that continue to grow positively even after they're gone.
In Summary
By embracing evolved leadership, we can create a future where extraordinary achievements are not just possible—they become the norm. It's about inspiring those around us to think differently, act confidently, and significantly impact the world.
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MORE executive SUCCESS - the five opportunities – acquire knowledge, foster a performance climate, develop responsiveness, nurture emergence and adaptiveness, engage stakeholders (including customers) and colleagues
The Evolved Protocol: From Present Reality to Future Evolution
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 15, 2057
Executive Summary: The Journey From 2025 to 2057
Thirty-two years ago, in 2025, a small group of visionary leaders recognized that traditional management approaches were reaching their breaking point. They launched what would become the foundation for today's Evolved Protocol - not as a predetermined solution but as a journey of discovery.
Starting with executive workshops in 2025, they focused on a crucial insight: meaningful organizational change only emerges when leaders evolve their mental models first. Today, in 2057, we announce the culmination of that journey - The Evolved Protocol.
The Challenge: Then and Now
2025's Reality:
Organizations struggled with:
- Leaders trapped in outdated management paradigms
- Change initiatives that didn't stick
- Disconnected executive education
- Tools and frameworks that didn't scale
- Stakeholder engagement that felt forced
2057's Complexity:
Contemporary organizations face an unprecedented rate of change:
- Market conditions shift with increasing velocity
- Traditional hierarchies impede rapid adaptation
- Strategy often becomes obsolete before adoption
- Talent remains constrained by rigid organizational structures
- Conventional management approaches limit innovation potential
- Emerging generations bring fundamentally different expectations about work and leadership
- What got us here won't get us there: the future demands new approaches
The Bridge: From Workshops to Protocol
The 2025 Foundation:
The initial executive workshop series laid the groundwork by:
- Empowering leaders to navigate continuous change
- Providing practical tools for immediate impact
- Building a community of forward-thinking executives
- Focusing on human-centered leadership approaches
- Creating spaces for experimentation and learning
Key collaborators included thought leaders like:
- Alize Hofmeester on adaptive leadership
- Dave Snowden on complexity
- Lia Caraman on human-centered leadership
- Pia-Maria Thorén on motivation
- Magdalena Firlit and Ralph Jocham on product leadership
- Daniel Russo on enabling team effectiveness
The 2057 Evolution:
The Evolved Protocol emerged from these foundations, representing a fundamental shift in organizational thinking:
Core Principles:
- Leadership emerges based on context
- Capability evolves
- Strategy emerges through action and bottom-up intelligence over pre-planning
- Decision-making adapts to changing conditions
- Learning and adaptation occurs through continuous experimentation
- Value delivery happens in small, frequent iterations
Implementation: From Theory to Practice
Phase 1: Foundation (2025-2026)
- Begin emergent adoption and validation of the base Protocol proof-of-concept
- Begin collecting organizational network data
- Initiate preliminary pattern recognition
- Establish feedback mechanisms
Phase 2: Adaptation (2027-2030)
- Enable dynamic role allocation
- Implement adaptive decision frameworks
- Launch experimental initiatives
- Monitor emerging patterns
- Monitor human factors
- Foster communities of practice
Phase 3: Evolution (2030 and beyond)
- Amplify successful patterns
- Refine Protocol based on observations
- Expand to additional organizational domains
- Document and share emergent practices, fostering the organizational transfer of learning
Measured Impact
Rather than traditional Return on Investment (ROI) projections, we track emerging value patterns:
- Value Delivery trend indicators
- Learning speed in the desired direction metrics
- Stakeholder (including customer, employee, vendor) understanding
- Stakeholder (including customer, employee, vendor) satisfaction
- Stakeholder (including customer, employee, vendor) delight
- Adaptation speed in the desired direction metrics
- Innovation emergence rates
- Value delivery and realization frequency
Leadership Implications
Success requires a fundamental shift in leadership approach:
- Embrace uncertainty as a source of opportunity
- Focus on enabling conditions rather than controlling outcomes
- Develop comfort with emergent patterns
- Lead through influence and distributed authority
- Balance structure with flexibility
- Meaningful change sticks
The Path Forward
For Today's Leaders (2025):
Join our workshop series featuring:
- Modular design (4-6 hours per module)
- In-person and online options
- Live webinars with Q&A
- Optional coaching
For Tomorrow's Pioneers (2057):
We invite forward-thinking organizations to join us in this evolution. The future of organizational effectiveness lies not in greater control but in better adaptation to uncertainty.
Call to Action
As Ed Catmull might say, "The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them." We invite you to join us on this journey - whether starting with our 2025 workshops or implementing the full Protocol in 2057.
The future isn't something that happens to us. It's something we create together, one experiment, one learning, one adaptation at a time.
The next renaissance in executive management
When the change is change itself
Elevate your long-term impact through continuous emergence in a powerful direction
Evolved workshops are designed to be practical and applicable to your work, giving you the confidence and action plan to implement your strategies.
Not everything from the past is wrong. Our future should leverage and improve ideas and embrace lessons from the past and present. Let's reduce everything to the essentials and recombine what's appropriate for the context.
We don't have one perfect plan, but we can give you some ideas to work with and try out in your own situation.
The Path Forward
- The journey to success is long and requires a deep commitment to change.
- You need to be mindful and self-aware.
- Your organization must evolve and be ready to pivot with new challenges.
- Your leadership will foster transparency, improve intentional collaboration, reduce delays, and encourage decentralized decision-making.
- We can help you start with some patterns to tweak and test in your context.
Dedication
The executive series is dedicated to W. Edwards Deming.
Photo courtesy of The W. Edwards Deming Institute®.
Improve Strategy Deployment and Emergence
Do Focus Top-Down and Bottom-Up
With the help of Generative AI, learn focus and what not to work on. Try Tom-Gilb-style Impact Estimation Tables for decomposition and prioritization and Tom-Gilb-style stakeholder value quantification at all levels.
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Create a Roger-L.-Martin-inspired Winning Aspiration (with vision, mission, or purpose).
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Create a Roger-L.-Martin-inspired corporate strategy.
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Create a malleable emergent direction of travel. Or create a Roger-L.-Martin-inspired product strategy.
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Align a parallel organizational strategy top-down, bottom-up, and horizontally. Avoid OKRs overload.
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Use the Pawel Huryn product strategy canvas. Or try the Jeff-Gothelf/Joshua-Seiden-inspired product strategy canvas.
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Create one sub-12-week OKR outcome-oriented objective. Write the objective using a Jeff-Gothelf/Joshua-Seiden-inspired business problem statement.
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Create three sub-4-week OKR outcome-oriented Key-Results. Write them using “in order to” style user stories with acceptance criteria.
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Create Hypotheses using Jeff-Gothelf/Joshua-Seiden-inspired hypothesis statements. Test them with experiments using a Deming-inspired Plan, Do, Study, Act cycle at all levels.
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Use Mike Rother and Jochen Krebs inspired Improvement and Coaching Kata. Adopt a deliberate rhythm and change discipline through intentional practice.
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Discover the tradeoffs of short-term and long-term goals and goals vs. vectors.
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Learn another path, a vector of change that captures coherent emergence. Afterall, change is not linear or predictable.
Learning Outcomes
Workshop Goals
Select your module
Improve Strategy Deployment and Emergence
Integrate Objectives with Adaptiveness
Strategy as a Collaborative Generative Activity
Understand and Address Variation
‘See’ demand and how the work works
Cultivate Short to Long-term Success
The next renaissance for top executives
Target Audience:
- Top-level executives
- Senior-level managers
- Change management executives
- Product executives
- Program or portfolio executives
- Anyone involved in leading change initiatives
Duration:
- Multiple modules (4 to 6 hours per module)
- Join one or many sessions with peers
- Private or public
Delivery Mode:
- In-person sessions with full engagement required
- Online interactive sessions with cameras on and full engagement required
- Live webinars and Q&A sessions
- Private or public
Why This Workshop Series?
As a leader, you navigate entanglement daily. Save yourself with better stakeholder satisfaction, strategic clarity, delivery, and effectiveness at the lowest costs.
Our executive workshop series, with multiple modules to choose from, is a starting point for improving your ability and confidence to lead through uncertainty while inspiring short-term and long-term success.
What Makes This Series Stand Out?
- Customizable Learning: Join one or many modules based on your needs. The modules are interconnected yet independent.
- Proven Strategies: Interlace time-tested ideas and innovations to deliver change that sticks.
- Engaging Formats: Live training workshops tailored to executive needs and executive audiences, supported by free podcasts and webinars.
- Practical Insights: Apply visual management, stakeholder satisfaction strategies, and evidence-informed decision-making to your unique context.
- Pragmatic: Exercise and experience-driven ‘try before you buy’ approaches. The training favors interaction to facilitate adoption.
- Supported by Optional Coaching for your Context by Industry-leading Practitioners: Breadth and depth across approaches, domains, and industries with an agnostic approach for knowledge
work.
Key Focus Areas
- Clarity in Action
- Master Complexity
- Visualize Success
- Adapt & Evolve
What You'll Gain
- Strategic Tools: Optimize decisions and optimize stakeholder values (including customers and users).
- Leadership Mastery: Uncover actionable insights into self-leadership, team dynamics, and organizational impact.
- Practical Application: Exercises and tools are ready to be adopted in your organization tomorrow, with an acceptable invitation to change.
- Scalable Solutions: Catalyze systemic changes with strategies designed for the enterprise level.
Ready to Lead with Impact?
Transform how you lead with actionable insights, a supportive community, and a path toward becoming more adaptable, resilient, and successful.
How
Through:
- Agendashift™
- Beyond Budgeting
- Customer Experience
- Cynefin®
- Design
- Estuarine Mapping
- Flow
- Inspiration
- Kanplexity™
- Leadership Circle Profile®
- Lean
- Liberating Structures
- Marshall Goldsmith’s Stakeholder Centered Coaching
- Mind Body Connection
- Motivation
- Obeya
- Organization Design
- OKRs
- Planguage and Evo
- Plan Do Study Act
- Process Behavior Charts
- Product Management
- Product Leadership
- Purpose
- Strategy
- Strategy Deployment
- Team Effectiveness
- User Experience
- Wardley Maps
- Vanguard Method
- X-Matrix
Your Facilitators:
- Alize Hofmeester
- Allan Kelly
- Daniel Russo
- Dave Snowden
- Jim Benson
- John Coleman
- Lia Caraman
- Magdalena Firlit
- Mike Burrows
- Nader Talai
- Pia-Maria Thorén
- Philippe Guenet
- Ralph Jocham
- Steve Morlidge
Enroll Today
Choose your modules and start your journey toward leadership excellence.
For any questions and registration, please feel free to contact hello@evolved.institute.
By attending, you will be able to
- Address Variation: Variation is part of the parcel of normal business activity. Apply techniques to diagnose abnormal variation. Visualize the normal variation that might require a big change to unseat. Also, understand when variation theory is more useful.
- Attain Clarity: Communicate measurable, malleable goals to optimize value. Get some help from Artificial Intelligence Large Language Models (AI LLMs).
- Deal with Complexity: Understand and apply techniques to deal with emergence. Give voice to a renewed freshness of thinking so the organization adapts to or pre-empts the marketplace.
- ‘See’ Knowledge Work and Waste: ‘See’ rather than not see. Visualization trumps blindness to knowledge work and waste. And go to the source to get the facts for yourself.
- ‘See’ the flow of outcomes: Do your teams check if they ‘hit the bullseye?’ Learn and adapt. Experiments, result-feedback, side effects, and marketplace changes offer ample to learn from if you and the teams would look.
- ‘See’ ‘Demand’ and How the Work Works: Convert failure to serve stakeholders well to value demand. Develop strategies that promote active participation from all stakeholders (including customers and users). Understand organizational workflows, processes, and systems. Discover how to serve stakeholders better, including the customer or user.
- Viable Management Models –Align Management Models with the Environment and your People: Strive to eliminate misalignment between what is said and what is done. Foster the harmony and consistency between your organization's management processes, your words, and your behavior. Create an environment where people face and adapt to reality together. Watch them deal with it constructively and appropriately.
- Enable Smarter Investment with Discover to Deliver: More often than you think, when your teams build it, customers don’t come to it. Let’s understand that result-feedback, side-effects, and marketplace changes provide the most impactful learnings. And here’s a Newsflash: stakeholders struggle to articulate what they want or need, so observing can be better than listening. If you can spend 5k USD on discovery to save investing 5m USD of waste delivery, it’s worth it. Get some help from AI LLMs.
- Address Measurement: Informed by evidence, persevere, pivot, or stop. Learning without adaptation is pointless. Get some help from AI LLMs. Empower vendors with agile contracts.
- Address the Work Climate: Engage customers, users, and employees. Stimulate a climate where you hear the truth before the grapevine and are glad to hear it. Inspired, motivated, and cognitively diverse people lead at all levels.
- Address Yourself: Become More Coachable. Master personal development techniques that enhance your leadership capabilities.
- Lead Yourself: Harness the innate power inside you and feel good enough, and at the same time, learn how to improve personal inner harmony.
Other Inspirations Include
Public Works
related to:
- Andy Carmichael
- Annie Dukes
- Bas Vodde
- Bill Joiner
- Brené Brown
- Christina Wodtke
- Clayton Christensen
- Cliff Hazell
- Craig Larman
- Corporate Rebels
- Daniel Pink
- Dave Snowden
- Donald G. Reinersten
- Donald J. Wheeler
- Edgar Schein
- Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Ellen Gottesdiener
- Esther Cameron
- Heidi Helfand
- Henrik Kniberg
- Henry Mitzberg
- Indi Young
- Jared Spool
- Jeff Gothelf
- Jeff Patton
- Jocko Willink
- Joe Krebs
- John Carter
- John Doerr
- John Kotter
- John Seddon
- John Turner
- Joshua Seiden
- Jurgen Appelo
- Karl Scotland
- Ken Schwaber
- Kent Beck
- Klaus Leopold
- L. David Marquet
- Leandro Herrero
- Leif Babin
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Marshall Goldsmith
- Martin Fowler
- Marty Cagan
- Masha Omeragic
- Melissa Perri
- Michael Huynh
- Michael Porter
- Mike Beedle
- Mike Green
- Mike Rother
- Nigel Thurlow
- Peter Senge
- Renee A. Mauborgne
- Richard Rumelt
- Robert Sutton
- Roger L. Martin
- Rory Sutherland
- Russell Ackoff
- Russ Lewis
- Sam L. Savage
- Scrum.org Evidence-Based Management™
- Scrum.org Nexus
- Siegfried Kaltenecker
- Simon Wardley
- Stephen M. R. Covey
- Steve Tendon
- Taiichi Ohno
- Tom and Kai Gilb
- Walter A. Shewhart
- W. Chan Kim
- W. Edwards Deming
- Woody Zuille
- Yves Morieux
Themes
Modules
‘See’ demand and how the work works
Understand and Address Variation
Strategy as a Collaborative Generative Activity
Integrate Objectives with Adaptiveness
For the bold and curious, we unlock unseen possibilities, turning human potential into stories worth sharing and futures worth building
For the bold ones, making the impossible irresistible
Evolved leadership–thinks different, enables extraordinary
For those who dare to imagine, we turn audacious dreams into realities
For the fearless dreamers, where vision fuels creation and the extraordinary becomes inevitable
Where bold ideas meet boundless curiosity to craft futures that inspire and endure
For the relentless seekers of more, we ignite potential and shape tomorrow's legacy
For the curious ones making the impossible probable
Where intuition meets ingenuity to shape a better tomorrow
