Forward Thinking
Welcome to Forward Thinking, where we explore the ideas, insights, and strategies shaping the future of leadership, organizational change, and culture. This is where we share what we’re learning in the field—what’s working, what’s shifting, and what leaders need to be paying attention to. Grounded in practice and informed by research, our posts are designed to help you think more critically, act more intentionally, and lead more effectively in times of change.
Why Your Strategic Plan Needs a Forgetting Plan
Most strategic plans pour their energy into helping people remember new priorities and assume the old ones will fade on their own. Drawing on Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve and research on organizational unlearning, this post explores why old habits outlast new strategy and what it looks like to design a forgetting plan that retires them on purpose.
The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Methodology and the Art of Thinking in Systems
Most strategic planning conversations aren't failing because of bad strategy. They're failing because the format of the conversation isn't built for the kind of thinking that good strategy requires. In this post, we make the case that LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is less a creativity tool and more a systems thinking methodology, one that helps leadership teams externalize complexity, surface hidden interdependencies, and build the shared understanding that makes a plan executable. If your planning process keeps producing the same results, the problem might not be the plan. It might be the medium.
lead.forward - Our Framework for Leadership Development
Leadership isn’t a one-size-fits-all workshop; it’s a dynamic capability that flexes across self, team, and system. Without a clear lens, leadership initiatives risk becoming disconnected or generic. Discover the lead.forward framework - our intentional model for designing growth experiences that hit the mark. Learn how the "Look In, Look Around, Look Out" approach provides a scaffold for application that empowers leaders to make a meaningful difference at every level of an organization.