Our Approach
Informed by Emergence
There are no pre-defined plans or roadmaps because we’re operating in complexity; what the work looks like will be shaped by the insights, tensions, and needs that collectively emerge from the team(s) we engage with.
Grounded in Practice
Beyond concepts and theory that are challenging to apply, leaders and team members build capabilities that can be easily integrated in the workplace.
In The Work”
To bridge the implementation gap of being given a roadmap that leaves one wondering where to start or leaving a retreat inspired, yet unsure what can be applied the next day, teams benefit from the presence of embedded practitioners along the way, who help form new habits “in the work”.
Designed for Resilience
Skills and capabilities are built within the team so that one day, the work continues without the need for external guidance. That’s what designing for resilience looks like.
Sustained Impact at Team Level
Because real change takes time, and real change often happens at team level, we favour long-term partnerships with full teams so that we can collectively aim for meaningful and sustained impact.
Accessible as a Long-Term Partner
Favouring long-term engagements means being mindful of the affordability of our services. Our engagement approach is designed to make our services accessible to organisations of all sizes and across all sectors, and for the time it takes to catalyse the desired change.
Lead Practitioner
“The only constant in my life has been a relentless drive to challenge status quo in order to make space for the meaningful change that wants to emerge.”
Meet Véronique,
Some of my earliest memories in my native town of Quebec city in Canada would be of friends and family members affectionately calling me “stubborn“; 30+ years (spent in five countries) later, people around me tend to use terms like “grit” or “drive” to define me. But drive is nothing without purpose, and my relentless quest for personal meaning only found its home once I became involved in the fascinating world of organisational transformation.
In what I consider the first act of my professional life, I spent roughly a decade at the headquarters of global technology firms, developing employee engagement strategies around transformation efforts that were impacting them, from restructurings and mergers to strategic shifts and crises.
Feeling compelled to help catalyse transformation on a greater scale within business and society, I left the corporate world in 2020 to enter the second act of my life and become a transformation partner at the future-of-work consultancy The Ready, where I engaged with a wide range of organizations across sectors (non-profit, regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, pharmaceutical, banking, media) as they sought to adopt more human and adaptive ways of working.
As I became increasingly concerned with the complexity and urgency of the global challenges we face, I felt the need to continue to accompany leaders and their teams as they adopt new ways of working, while intentionally helping them build the capabilities they need to be, think, and lead in ways that can help us collectively navigate those challenges.
That’s what has led me here, and led me to found COPE.
What has led you here?
Partner & Practitioner Ecosystem
We partner with a network of collaborators and practitioners based in Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and the UK who bring complementary expertise in the fields of organisational transformation & design, leadership & personal development, sustainability, and systems thinking in order to best serve the clients we engage with and best adapt to their evolving needs.