Kinnford Consulting

Managers and leaders live in a world of rapid, unpredictable change. Like Kayakers shooting a rapid, they need to be able to maintain poise and direction lest they be swamped. In the world of the workplace, we think of that as 'adaptive capacity'. Kinnford specialises in providing tailored solutions for leaders and teams who need to sustain and increase that adaptive capacity. We can help to improve communication and collaboration, find productive ways to handle conflict and promote emotionally competent leadership and team work. Our unique background of advanced education in social science, combined with wide ranging experience, ensures we bring state-of-the-art to such things as increasing innovation and agility, supporting planning processes that deliver outcomes (not just charts on the wall) as well as building connections across silos and with stakeholders and so on. We have demonstrated capacity to unblock teams that are stuck or under-productive and to build improved methods for discussion, information sharing and creativity. Above all, we eschew simplistic slogans like 'conquering complexity' or 'driving change'. The world IS complex and human systems are complex and co-evolving. By definition, this cannot be 'conquered' not can change be driven through it. Instead, we have to find ways to live with messiness and uncertainty and navigate through it, making sense of it as we go and seeking to find things that seem to work.