'Alignment' with Lindsay Uittenbogaard

More change, complexity, employee diversity, and hybrid working have expanded and elevated the role of 'alignment', as a means of improving organization performance, from being important to a critical success factor. BUT WILL LEADERS RISE TO THE CHALLENGE - and if not, what's stopping them?

In addition to the alignment of organization purpose, strategy, and goals is the lesser spotted human aspect of alignment – shared meaning between people - for effective action . This is a huge opportunity for any change practitioner who can draw on the evolved understanding of the nature, definition, scope, and process of human alignment that is available today.

Human Alignment is about shared current reality so people can deliver the right stuff better together. Lindsay will present a bit about the research and thinking behind human alignment, as well as a bunch of questions, as you might expect at a Dialogic Drinks Session from EQ Lab.

Lindsay Uittenbogaard didn’t know she had Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) until last year and this awareness put much into perspective. She had studied Creative Arts to avoid having to concentrate on reading texts; she had worked in Broadcast Journalism because you don’t need an attention span to produce 30 second clips; then spent a decade travelling geographically and professionally from marketing to PR to management, learning but not finding a core purpose.

In 2001 she landed in the Netherlands in her 30’s as a Business Communications practitioner and strove to rise up the ladder in multinational organizations, becoming an IABC-accredited Business Communicator; a certified member of the Reputation Institute, and the CIPD; and a published author in the Gower Handbook on Internal Communication 2008. But inevitably, Lindsay found the culture of misalignment in these large corporate environments too constraining for the business and too frustrating for herself.

Her experiences led her to discover and develop a data-driven approach to team alignment in 2016, Mirror Mirror, which has continued to hold her attention, and that of many delivery partners and clients ever since.

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