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The most transformative force in business? Your team.
For a team to truly have impact, individuals need to be in tune with themselves, the business and each other. But this is challenging with the day-to-day demands of BUSYness-as-usual.
We create a different space, the Sum Space.
Space for executives, leadership teams, and boards of directors to reconnect and align on what’s important. The team transforms in that space. And a significant shift in their business becomes possible.
A framework for breakthroughs
The root of business challenges often go deep. We’ve learnt that to tackle them sustainably, you need an integrative approach. Our work centers around a basic yet powerful framework: IT-WE-I.
IT-WE-I is a simple model. But it’s key to unearthing the depth and complexity central to your biggest challenges. The integration of all three is what makes real transformation possible.
Journeys through Sum Space
Team Journeys are the heart of what we do. To see things differently, you need to change the view. We create space away from the office to let people open up and connect.
Through workshops, interactive exercises and sessions in small groups, we make room for sensitive conversations and constructive problem solving. This inspires co-ownership and trust, and harnesses the group’s collective intelligence in the process.
The teams we help to transform
Executive teams
Our journeys typically start with the executive team. It’s critical for them to define their aspirations and strategic priorities (the It), shape a great team (the We) and strive to become effective and inspiring leaders (the I).
We orchestrate off-site workshops and curate a powerful Sum space. It is where co-creative visioning and crucial conversations replace the traditional PowerPoint battles.
Boards of Directors
Board meetings could be spaces for vibrant, creative exchange. Instead, members are often drained by lengthy pre-reads and difficult group dynamics.
We orchestrate Sum Space for boards to get clear and aligned on their charter, their mandate and their definition of success.
We guide you to formats and dynamics that leverage diversity of thoughts and established a productive interaction with management.
Leadership teams
for a function, division, regionLeadership teams within the organization need to translate their aspirations into concrete results and make sure that the whole organization can operate as high performing teams.
Cross-functional & Regional teams
Many businesses deliver sub-optimal results because of silo thinking, process inefficiencies or strategic misalignment between their teams. Sum Space helps bring these teams back together leveraging the collective intelligence across these teams.
Scaling and sustaining
“What about Monday morning?”
To really transform your business, we help you change your day-to-day operations and scale up the work from your Team Journey.
1. Leadership conferences
Not enough organizations use the full power of their leadership community. Our Sum Spaces reactivate communities by getting them to do things together (the original sense from Latin’s ‘con ferre’.) Through facilitating critical It, We, and I conversations, we engage, align, and have leaders co-create solutions to take their transformational journey back to their teams.
2. Executive coaching
We open Sum Spaces for individual executives in parallel to team journeys to help them address topics essential for their personal agenda. We help them reflect on their own purpose, on whether their way of working is effective and fulfilling, and what it would take to get to the next level. Our Sum executive coaches can work in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Chinese, Turkish, Danish, and Portuguese.
3. Culture Evolution
Many executives want to apply the language, tools, and energy of the Sum Spaces to their organization at large but wonder how to do so effectively and efficiently. Together with your team, we co-create a framework for scaling that defines a powerful story for change, integrates existing culture and processes, and complements Sum’s simple set of mindsets and behaviors, role modeled by senior leadership and other multipliers.