THE INNER PATH OF THE TRANSFORMATION LEADER - Michael Hamman
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THE INNER PATH OF THE TRANSFORMATION LEADER
A Journey of Creation and the Possibility for Leaderful Impact
The word “transformation” has become ubiquitous in the world of organizational change,
especially in today’s hyper-turbulent, unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous world (“VUCA”).
However, in order to truly leverage the power of “transformation” we need to transform the way
in which we understand the term: from that which applies primarily to organizational structures,
processes, systems and institutions to that which pertains to the consciousness from which those
very structures, processes, systems and institutions arise.
For those of us who see ourselves as transformation leaders, such a notion of transformation
necessarily implies that to catalyze transformation in others necessarily means we must also
catalyze transformation within ourselves.
The Inner Path of the Transformation Leader: A Journey of Creation and the
Possibility of Leaderful Impact is a 6-month cohort program that takes you on a
deep journey of personal leadership growth and development. A journey in which
you create the possibility for impact around you by transforming the very
landscape of your own consciousness as a leader.
The fundamental focus of this program is your own inner development as a transformation
leader. Inner development, however, requires time to unfold—it rarely happens in a two- or
three-day workshop. The activities, practices, commitments, and conversations in which you
engage over the duration of the six months of this program will act as a sustained forcing
function for your long-term growth as a leader. As you grow over time in your inner
leadership—in your capacity to transcend your own inner uncertainty, hesitance, and emotional
triggers and to act, instead, from a place of intention, purpose and vision—so too will you grow
in your outer leadership—your ability to readily adopt the skills, practices and thinking needed
to catalyze higher performance in the human systems around you.
This program promises a profound breakthrough in who you are as a leader,
and in your capacity to catalyze profound change and evolution around you.
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Who is This Program For?
This program is for anyone who is called upon to lead within a complex environment in which
the nature of that complexity leaves them somehow feeling “in over their heads”. Someone who
recognizes that the nature of the complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity—both around them and
within them—is currently beyond their capacity to act with acuity, clarity, and grace. Someone
who, nevertheless, has a deep yearning to move beyond their inner limitations—and to better
leverage their inner gifts—in order to more fully embrace the power and scope of their vision,
and to make real its potential for deep and sustained impact in the world.
Such a person could be an agile team or program coach, an executive coach, an agile enterprise
coach, or an organizational change agent or OD (Organization Development) consultant. It could
also be middle-tier manager or top-level executive. Anyone who is committed to having their
impact in the world be a match with their vision for that world—whether that world be a team, a
program, a business, a church, or a city council.
When Might You Be Ready?
The Inner Path of the Transformation Leader is a rigorous program, requiring intensity of
engagement and commitment. The program will be perfect for you if what’s true about you is:
• You see a new possibility for yourself in your leadership and want to seriously upgrade
your leadership capacity, both in your own inner leadership capability and in your
capacity to impact the growth and development of the people and systems around you.
• You currently work, or you anticipate working, in a complex environment—however you
define that—which could form a kind of laboratory for your practice and learning.
• Your work and home situation is such that you will be able to attend all sessions,
including the 4 Day Residential (explained below). This is important since the
developmental thrust of the program grows over time, and that thrust can only really
happen when all are present for all sessions. Therefore, we set a very high bar for missed
sessions, such as illness or an unexpected emergency.
• You are ready to do the work needed for you to move to the next level in your
development. This includes a deep drive, commitment, and intensity to stay with it even
when the going gets tough, and to prioritize the program in the face of the many other
competing commitments that will likely arise during the course of the program.
Expected Outcomes
By engaging fully in the program, you can expect to significantly upgrade both your inner and
your outer leadership in the following ways:
• You will experience a significant upgrade in your own inner leadership, which you will
be able to readily observe and even measure for yourself.
Copyright Michael Hamman 2021 2• You will find yourself with an increasing level of confidence and manifested ability in
your leadership, even as you face challenges (and opportunities) which might currently
feel daunting or even overwhelming.
• You will dramatically increase your skillfulness in the arena of relationship,
communication, and group dynamics. As a result, you will find yourself being far more
effective in your ability to facilitate groups and teams toward increased relationship
intelligence and, hence, high performance.
• You will grow new skills in one-on-one coaching at all levels, but especially in the area
of coaching and mentoring other leaders.
• You will have immersed yourself in (over the course of the six months), and come to
integrate into your leadership, a body of distinctions and practices which hang together
into a highly cohesive whole.
• You will be eligible for IC-Agile Certification for Leading with Agility (IC-LEA)
Structure of the Program
The six-month program has two basic segments. The first segment, which is around 3 months
long (consisting of approximately six virtual video-conferencing program sessions) focuses on
the context of our own inner transformation. Looking through the lenses of adult developmental
psychology and ontological inquiry, we first uncover ways in which we make meaning of our
world, and how that meaning-making determines our capacity to act in relation to the situations
and circumstances we find most challenging. From such an examination—through deep inquiry,
group practices, and live coaching, all of which unfolds over the course of the six months—it
becomes possible to shift the meaning-making context which shapes how those situations and
circumstance occur for us, opening the way for greater capability and intended impact in our
world.
The second program segment begins with a 4 Day Virtual Residential, during which the entire
cohort comes together (for now, virtually over zoom). During the 4 days, we continue to deepen
the work of inner transformation, while moving more firmly into the realm of relationship and
relationship systems. We will work extensively with large group processes, conversation
practices, the nature of genuine partnership and co-leadership, and a deliberate deepening of the
cohort’s emotional field (the “We” space).
The Virtual Residential is followed by a second 3-month period which consists of another set of
six whole-cohort virtual sessions. During this part of the program, we will continue to expand
our inner transformation into the realm of relationships, and relationship systems, expanding on
the work we’ve begun in the Residential.
In addition to the 12 cohort sessions, we will periodically offer participants 1-on-1
coaching/mentoring and coaching sessions.
Over the course of the program, each participant will have both a Personal Leadership
Development project and a Leadership Impact project. The program will culminate with each
participant creating for themselves, and sharing with the cohort, a portfolio of Leadership
accomplishments and Triumphs. This final portfolio will form a kind of program commencement
Copyright Michael Hamman 2021 3(which of course is both the completion of one thing (a “graduation”) and the start of something
new) for that participant.
Your Program Leaders
Michael Hamman is a thought-leader in the Agile world,
known mainly for his work helping organizations, teams, and
leaders toward greater holistic team and enterprise-level agility,
primarily through growing their inner capacity for leadership
agility in the face of the complexity, volatility and complexity
that is 21st century life and business.
He is well-known as a highly effective workshop leader, and
for his skill in creating deep learning environments which leave
participants feeling inspired by the insights and inner shifts
they experience.
Michael speaks regularly at Agile conferences, meet-ups, and
gatherings. His book Evolvagility: Growing an Agile
Leadership Culture from the Inside Out distills two decades of
work in helping individuals, teams, and organizations grow their capacity for leadership agility.
Michael Spayd has been a pioneer in the Agile world for
19 years, bringing in thinking and methods from
professional coaching, leadership development (LD),
organization development (OD), Integral and systemic
methods that are relevant to the transformation of self,
culture, and leadership in service of organizational agility.
Michael is known as a transformational teacher and leader,
with a deep ability to facilitate both compelling and
transformational learning environments. He is the co-
author of a highly anticipated book, Agile
Transformations: Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework to Think and Lead
Differently, due to be published in December 2020.
Your Investment
o Six months of your dedicated time and commitment
o $4,500.00 USD which can either be paid up-front or in two installments (the first installment
will be due upon registration, and the second prior to the Residential). Other payment
arrangements can be made—contact Michael Hamman.
Copyright Michael Hamman 2021 4What’s Included in Your Program Fee
• 12 Leader-facilitated cohort sessions (exact dates and proposed topics below)
• Periodic 1-on-1 coaching/mentoring with the program leader
• Harthill Leadership Development Profile with debrief
• Online learning platform with regular and frequent access to program leader
• 4-Day Virtual Residential
• Handouts, materials and workbooks
• ICAgile Certification in Leading with Agility (ICP-LEA)
Some Specifics
Each session will be 2 hours in duration, and typically fall on Fridays (Saturdays for those east of
India). Specific times will be determined during the early formation of a given cohort, depending
on which time zones most of the participants reside.
Each session will have some variation of the following format:
1. Brief check-in and setting of the intention for the session.
2. Questions and reflections on what’s happening for participants, with live one-on-one
coaching and mentoring from Michael.
3. Topic of the session: approximately 10-20-minute presentation of a new distinction, skill,
or practice. Plenty of interaction is invited, including questions, observations and
feedback.
4. Depending on the nature of the topic, a good part of the remainder of each session will be
devoted either to whole group work (when the topic points to aspects of groups and group
dynamics), skill-drills and practice (when a new skill or practice is the centerpiece of the
topic), or small group work (for instance when learning and practicing relationship skills
such as deliberately developmental coaching or shared sensemaking).
5. Closing the session: do or say whatever is needed to bring the session to a fulfilling and
inspiring close.
6. Each session will be recorded and recordings will made available to all participants
throughout the duration of the program.
7. All sessions (including virtual Residential) are conducted using Zoom.
Schedule and Topics
Note: Topics, and the precise way in which topics are treated, may shift and move around
depending on what unfolds within the cohort.
Topic Description
Copyright Michael Hamman 2021 5#1. Setting the Stage Introducing ourselves. Mapping the territory of the program.
(Special 3-hour session) Establishing a baseline of workability for the program
(agreements and commitments). Your first deliberate
sensemaking conversation. Continuing to reflect on your
leadership. The distinction of “sharing” vs “reporting”.
#2. Beginning the Dive Developmental Theory and the architecture of meaning-making.
Into Ourselves and the Confronting our inauthenticity. Beginning to examine The Gap –
Architecture of Our between intention and impact. Beginning to dive more deeply into
Meaning-Making Action Logics as domains of possibility. (HW: Read About each of
the Action Logics –from Diplomat to Magician).
#3. Stepping into the Gap Action Logic vocabulary. Diving more deeply into the Gap;
Between Our Intention examining our blind spots. We are that who we are is a product of
and Our Impact our past: our future is a projection of the past. Introducing the
distinction of “possibility” (An option, is an alternative that you
develop out of your past – out of experience. A possibility, on the
other hand, comes from your commitment to the future.). Reflecting
on the nature of your own predominant Action Logic vocabulary.
Deliberate Sensemaking conversation.
#4. The Power of Reflecting on our Action Logic vocabularies and how we see them
Language and the Practice played out in our leadership. Examining the nature of language
of Deliberate and the power language has in how we see the world and make
Sensemaking sense of it. We look at the ways in which our speaking determines
Conversations our own way of being, as well as the manner of occurrence in the
world around us. Here we dive deeply into the very foundation of
how we make meaning (or, rather, how it makes us) in order to
provide for ourselves more ready access to the source of how we
show up in our leadership. The 1-2-3 of the deliberate
sensemaking conversation. HW: Notice the nature of your
speaking and listening. What does that appear to generate in terms
of effects in your world, in your relationship with others, in your
leadership?
#5 Opening to the domain Reflecting on speaking and listening and on the nature of
of Relationship languaging. Being with another. Deeper dive into deliberate
sensemaking conversations. Practicing in triads, and the role of the
reflector.
VIRTUAL “RESIDENTIAL” During our 4-Day Virtual Residential, we will significantly deepen
the sense of connection and relationship within our system, and
further explore the outer reaches of our own leadership, both as
individuals and in relationship with others.
You will discover the impact of your leadership on others in ways
that will ground you in your overall leadership journey.
Furthermore, you will ground yourself in your own leadership
stand—that for which you stand both in your leadership and in
relation to the impact you intend in the world around you.
Copyright Michael Hamman 2021 6You will take a deep, experiential, dive into the nature of
relationship systems and venture beyond the places we usually
stop when relating with, and working with, others.
You will receive the results of your own personal Leadership
Development Profile, and will have ample opportunity to begin to
process what it teaches you about your own capacity for meaning-
making and its impact on your leadership.
You will continue to practice Deliberately Developmental
Conversations and will begin to expand the practices learned there
into small group Deliberately developmental conversations as well
as Shared Sensemaking Conversations.
Throughout the 4 days, you will experience a variety of group
activities as an aid in helping to uncover the nature of group
dynamics and how you might, as a facilitator, leverage those
dynamics to help groups raise their intelligence and align around
common purpose.
Over the 4 days, you will design an alliance with a cohort “buddy”
who will be your accountability partner throughout the remainder
of the program.
In many ways, the Residential is the heart of the program as well
as a launching point toward even deeper engagement, as you start
to expand out from—but in no way leaving behind—the focus on
your inner leadership to a keen attentiveness to the impact you
have on others and on the organizations in which your leadership
shows up.
#6. Re-grounding In this session we devote ourselves to reflecting on the impact of
ourselves post- the learning and developmental opening that got created in the
Residential Residential.
#7. Distinguishing Leaders create from what is, not from what they prefer. This is
“Integrity”, what it means not the same as “going with the flow” or “accepting what is
for us to be in Integrity happening”. I said leaders create from. It is a starting point, not
with who we intend an end point. Leaders create from their boredom, from their
ourselves to be as leaders disappointment, from others’ boredom, from others’
disappointment. They start there, and then take it where they say
they want it to go.
In this session, we look more deeply at what this takes, and
consider that “integrity” means to be congruent with who we
envision ourselves to be in our leadership, and in our impact in
the world.
Copyright Michael Hamman 2021 7At this point, we also take a deep dive into the practice of Shared
Sensemaking Conversations as a way of being more deliberate
about the sensemaking that always already determines how we
make sense of the challenges and situations we face.
#8. Topic related to In this session, and in subsequent sessions, we explore the
Relationship Systems and systemic nature of relationship systems, and we introduce a
Systemic Consciousness human technology for exploring the ways in which human
systems get constituted and the ways in which they unfold within
an emotional and relational field.
#9. Topic related to
Relationship Systems and
Systemic Consciousness
#10. Topic related to
Relationship Systems and
Systemic Consciousness
#11. Integration
#12. Completions (Special In this session, each cohort member will have an opportunity to
3-hour session) share the nature of their development and learning. This is a truly
creative expression of deep personal impact and gratitude that can
take any number of different manners of expression.
Final closing circle for this cohort.
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