ORBITALS
Regeneration
We have extensive, pioneering experience as creators and advocates of transformational practices that aid cycles of regeneration and lead to sustainable growth.
Transforming Organisations & Teams | Interchange Consultancy
Discovery and critical insights into our client’s needs and customer base, identifying blocks that prevent sales, implementation and regenerative growth
Delivering recommendations, education and consultancy for unblocking trapped and untapped value through people & leadership; perception & awareness; and systems, structures & processes
Identifying key champions, key communities and connection points to improve sales opportunities and implementation
GH & JK
Transforming Awareness | Interchange Insights Reports, Calls & Conferences
Presenting case studies, phenomenological data and insights on barriers and recommendations for implementing the conditions that aid navigation of possible, probable and preferred futures
GH & JK
Transforming a Non-Profit Global Ecosystem | Lausanne
Created a collaborative model for a multicultural, multisector non-profit working to address global challenges experienced in the workplace; this proof of concept experience was led over a 3-day in person event with 250 participants, 32 labs conducted, 19 challenges addressed using open principles and practices; participants left with a Lab Toolkit to enable this repeatable model.
JK
Transforming Culture & Futures | Interchange Community Calls, Roundtables & Masterclasses
Educating and advising senior leaders in the public and private sectors on creating the conditions for navigating possible, probable and preferred and futures
Including Secretaries of State, government CIOs, members of the ICA, European, and LATAM governments and government agencies and executives from the European Commission; charities; global NGOs; private companies
GH & JK
Transforming Place-Based Learning | Cities of Learning UK
Created the blueprints for Cities of Learning UK in collaboration with 3 UK cities, the RSA & DigitalMe, informed by my work in open learning, open recognition and open badge pathways
GH
Transforming Individual & Organisational Behaviours | The Open Index
Created a psychometric assessment that looks at several dimensions of cognitive behaviours across the five open principles; from individual to team to organizational level which showcases the root causes of “not being open”
JK
Transforming Culture | Open Org Ambassador
Facilitation and architecture of a growing community and driving global conversations on open culture
Providing leadership to the community
Authorship of books and resource materials
Invited expert and speaker on open culture
Created, launched and administered Open Org TV for the Open Organization project
JK
Transforming People, Leadership & Workplace Culture | Forbes Coaches Council
Invited to be a founding member and contribute thought leadership on people, leadership and workplace culture and represent as a recognized Executive Coach
JK
Transforming Systems & Process | Consulting
Led multiple projects that identified trapped value and untapped value due to workflow, systems and process challenges
The diagnostics and analysis led to uncovering multi millions in lost revenue and multi millions in new revenue opportunities as well as performance inhibitors in teams
Led strategy sessions to realign processes and workflow to release the untapped value to increase revenue, team performance, information flow and open for new opportunities for sustainable growth
JK
Transforming Recognition & Skills | Open Badges, Mozilla
Early adopter, pioneer and contributor to the development of the Open Badge open standard. Open Badges have created a paradigm shift in how we think about recognition and skills globally. The Open Badge standard is used by global top 5 companies and many more to transform skills programmes, talent pipelines and recruitment practices
Created blueprints for Open Badge Pathways (with Open Badges team at Mozilla)
GH
Transforming Scottish Further and Higher Education Assessment Practices | Jisc
Advisor to Scottish Further and Higher Education on transforming assessment practices and moving from paper based to digital assessment
GH
Transforming Service Model & Team Performance | Deloitte
Led data integrity and workflow analysis with team performance review which led to taking a bottom ranked service team to #1 in the Nation in 10 months
The new service model rolled out transformed delivery and support models across every national office.
JK
Transforming Scottish Social Services | Scottish Social Services Learning Networks
Led cross-sectoral transformation in working practices though open online learning, development of communities of practice and open collaboration
GH
Transforming Behaviours | Executive Coaching & Consulting
Researching and studying the most effective and sustainable transformation arcs for growth
Personal awareness for transformation
Executive Coaching for performance improvement, navigating major shifts, and empowering mindset and cognitive behaviour change
Research from behaviour studies led to crafting assessments and diagnostics to identify core intelligences, positive contribution value during change, unlock trapped value, discover untapped value, and to remove bias, barriers and limitations
Began deeper research into change horizons and how people respond and engage with change and necessary conditions for sustainable change leading to a Language of Change and various models and methodologies
JK
Transforming People & Systems | Deloitte
Led and facilitated workflow and system changes that led to increased performance in teams, reduced overtime and operational costs, increased service opportunity and resource utilization
Research derived from experience in performance improvement initiatives and new systems implementations
Coaching of direct reports, peers and leaders in the firm used in gaining awareness into mindset shifting and cognitive behaviour change
JK
Transforming Assessment | Re-Engineering Assessment Practices
Technical advisor to the Re-Engineering Assessment Practices (REAP) project, which had a global impact on influencing changes in assessment practices in higher education (University of Strathclyde)
GH
Transforming Scottish Social Work Education | Stór Cúram project
Advised and educated Scottish social work academics in higher education on how to transition to online delivery and open working practices
GH