The ability to adapt to change is fundamental to the success of individuals and businesses in the modern world. This programme is about working with change as individuals, in our teams and in our organisations.

These essays are some of Jim Ewing's insights on how to master the art of change.

How we spend our time in meetings and what constitutes the real work of a meeting changes as the uncertainty in the work environment increases. Here are some ways to think about this and what we might expect to have to accomplish.

The formal communications organisation has a critical role to play in keeping the organisation nimble and change-worthy. But they aren't alone. A viewpoint and some ideas for creating a comprehensive, change-worthy system of keeping the folks on the same page.

Thoughts on how leaders may have to adjust their agenda with their charges when uncertainty grows and the ground is shifting rapidly under their feet.

Some thoughts on coaching as one core ability of all of us to live out our responsibilities to each other in a world where uncertainty and change are running high, invention and expression is a must, or where effective learning is required. Or in a world where we just want to show up as fundamentally good, helpful folks.

This is a long piece. An attempt to get at the roots of the speedup of damn near everything in our lives and work. It raises more questions than it answers. It argues that as technology allows information to move fast enough and organisations continue to pursue ever faster profit cycles, the genetic cycle time of natural change in our bodies will be more and more assaulted, an effect we have seen in the last decade.

Our most fundamental, cultural and religious assumptions about the nature of the universe and how it is supposed to go may well be mistaken. Though there are others in the world, with far older systems than ours who may well have got it right. This is exploration not answers.

Satisfactory changes cause us to grow, to use more of ourself, to extend our being into added dimensions. The unsatisfying changes are frauds, because we just repeat the same old life patterns in different guise.

This is an excerpt from “Braving Uncertainty”, a book of Jim Ewing’s work, which was published in summer 2024.

Exploring Purpose means exploring this equation to find what is active in the client’s mind. It is also a chance to widen their sense of what their Purposes actually are made of. Mine is hardly the only model of this, but it is enough to broaden the conversation and get at an authentic, nuanced and compelling Purpose.