THE SYSTEMS COLLECTIVE - Key Persons
Akiko is an executive coach and facilitator who partners with individuals, teams, organisations and communities on the path to achieving their highest potential. Akiko's coaching and facilitation grew out of a twenty-year career in board level HR roles at FTSE 100, multinational and multi-stakeholder organisations.
She pairs her extensive corporate experience with a background in human development and psychology to achieve deep understanding and transformative results. Akiko is able to be with what is in a simple way that brings clarity and insight and from that stance new possibilities emerge.
Akiko is a truly gifted coach with a strong ability to listen to the unspoken and get to the heart of the matter. Over a 6 month period working together Akiko supported and encouraged me and helped me build my confidence to step back, consider my purpose and drive my career decisions. She brings a heart-centered approach that is grounded in solid theory and practical exercises. Akiko steered me to define what my version of great work looks like and create a plan to move toward that. I have no hesitation in recommending Akiko for any executive coaching assignment requiring a deep listening, empathic approach.
Cari Caldwell is one of the best consultants and coaches I have ever worked with - and, over the last twenty years, I've worked with many. She takes a stand for her clients' greatest and highest possibility, which would be terrifying in its enormity if she didn't also come at it with such love and confidence in her clients that it occurs as simply exciting. She won't stand for her clients playing small, and calls them on it, beautifully. To anyone who actually wants to make a difference, she's one of the best in the world. And for it.
Cari is at her best when midwifing new possibilities for individuals and communities creating their futures. Through her years of experience and her natural ability to connect and build trust, Cari catalyzes and draws out strengths in her clients, is able to create conditions for that which no longer serves to be let go, and stands in the future of what next, healthiest, potential is ripe to be made a reality.
Cari is able to hold complexity, allow all parts of a given system to be present and see and dignify multiple perspectives, especially those not often heard. From tactical to strategic to deeply personal, her work as a coach, facilitator, consultant and entrepreneur means Cari can move fluidly through the spaces required for multi- stakeholders groups to collaborate for the sake of a shared future they care about.
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- Open & Social Innovation Manager, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini
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- Minister for Climate Change, Minister of Statistics, Associate Minister of Finance of New Zealand
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- Senior Consultant
- Founder and CEO of Engaging Inquiry
Karen is a senior consultant who is best known for her practice of accompanying impact-focused organizations as they endeavor to stimulate and scale sustainable social and organizational change. Karen has over 25 years of experience as a weaver of methods and approaches, and especially loves designing novel analytics embedded within participatory organizational processes. Her recent work focuses on applying systems thinking and complexity principles to the design and execution of adaptive strategies for dealing with messy problems.
Karen is the founder and CEO of Engaging Inquiry, LLC based in Fairfax, VA. Engaging Inquiry is a "purpose-built" company that focuses on facilitating organizational learning and adaptive leadership capacity in organizations working on some of the world's toughest problems.
Nathan is driven by forces of curiosity, creativity, and heart, which he brings in service of individuals and teams who are forging inspired, outcome-oriented cultures of collaboration and design. Nathan designs and facilitates collaborative processes which unearth the innate collective intelligence of diverse groups and helps them work together in complex, changing terrain across difference, disagreement and conflict.
As a coach, Nathan invites the hidden and silent leaders in all of us to break the unspoken and tyrannical rules of stale, dying organizational cultures, and step into the courage and vulnerability of careful, fearless leadership. A long-time tai chi practitioner, Nathan also brings a rich understanding of human embodiment and behavior, utilizing the vehicle of the body to help people let go of their entrenched habitual patterns and access more effective communication, deeper leadership presence, and more collaborative and imaginative creative work, alone and within teams.
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- Head of Learning and Engagement, Asia Pacific, Goldman Sachs
Tracey is passionate about working with leaders and their teams to turn the complex into the simple. With more than 20 years' experience working at Board level in Global FTSE100, FTSE250 and Private Equity-backed businesses, she has first hand experience of working at the centre of major change programmes. Dedicated to acknowledging and creating a safe space for leaders and teams to see where they are; to courageously deal with the tough stuff, and to work with them on creating a healthy, balanced and sustainable system is what Tracey does best. She applies a creative approach focusing on the needs of each unique situation, partnering with leaders to ignite them, their teams, their businesses to be the best they can be in support of the wider system.
Vanessa is passionate about generating positive change in the world through people, promoting systemic health and restoration for the future. A core theme of her work is bringing together multi stakeholder groups to create the conditions for them to develop their individual and collective purpose, with a view to generating new systemic possibilities and healthy value creation opportunities within organizations and communities. Employing a range of theoretical perspectives, experiential learning, and 'real time' interventions, Vanessa works at a practical level of people and culture change.
She is at her best when working within complex systems, deeply listening and engaging to help bring forward what is seeking to emerge. She has a genuine ability to create meaningful relationships and to highlight the practical and subtle forces at play, in a way that opens up the space for collective action.
Vanessa was until recently, Global Head Culture Change and Leadership Development for HSBC and has a passion for helping drive change by enabling individuals, organisations and communities to become change agents for wider society.