Living, Leading, and Facilitating in Grey Zone Change

Description:

Grey Zone Change is defined as A space between the current state and the emerging future that is undefined and unknowable. The grey zone of change can be defined as the space in-between systems – between the from and to of change. Systems may be worldviews, philosophies, organization transformations, methodologies or social systems. How do we lead and facilitate transformations in this context? This session

provides an overview of the Grey Zone of Change, it's dynamics and what is needed to live, lead and facilitate through it. It is an overview of how Grey Zone Change helps us make sense of leading in the current times of complexity, ambidexterity and transformation as organizations explore new and innovative ways of living and leading in the face of new horizons and complex adaptive challenges.

We are in a world facing numerous systems transitions. From hierarchies to networks and sociocracies. From office-based to a global and mobile workforce. From a human resource era to a co-dependent AI/VR/robotics era. From patriarchy to equality-based systems. We are in the midst of major shifts and transitions, and organizational leaders must also shift their mindsets to move from only leading from traditional management practices to mastering ambidexterity—the ability to hold polarities and lead from both/and.

In this session, participants will engage in an inquiry around questions such as:

1. What is the experience of the grey zone?

2. What is required of organization leaders and facilitators experiencing the grey zone?

3. How do we navigate transformational change while in the grey zone through the subzones of transition, learning and synthesis and /systems development and do so with a focus on possibility and courage?

4. Now what?

Desired Outcomes will be to:

1. Provide an overview of the dynamics of living/leading/facilitating in times of chaos and complexity

2. Use transformative learning methodologies to support leaders to understand how to navigate the grey zone

3. Provoke thoughts for transforming Insights into Action

Who is this session for?

This workshop is targeted at all who experience themselves as navigating the grey zone of change and those who lead and facilitate within it.

Facilitator Bio:

Yabome Gilpin-Jackson is an Executive Leader and Consultant for leaders and professionals working to develop people and build organizational capacity for change. She is an experienced professional with proven expertise in the areas of leadership development, organizational development, facilitating strategic change and systematic organizing for social change and transformation. She has worked with corporate, non-profit/social profit and public sector organizations, internationally. She is also adjunct faculty for undergraduate and graduate courses in her areas of expertise. Yabome has been named International African Woman of the Year by UK-based Women4Africa and was the first ever recipient of the US-based Organization Development Network’s Emerging Organization Development Practitioner award. She also received the prestigious Harry Jerome Professional Excellence Award in Canada. Yabome is a post-doctoral Institute for Social Innovation Fellow at Fielding Graduate University, CA. In addition to many academic peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, she has published a ground-breaking book called, Transformation After Trauma, The Power of Resonance, was co-editor for the 2022 Palgrave Handbook of Learning for Transformation, is initiator and lead editor of the We Will Lead Africa book initiative and book series and has published short story collections about global African experiences Identities, Ancestries and Destinies. She is past Vice Chair & Chair of the Organization Development Network.