Joan Lurie
Discover the maps you didn’t know you have – the mind(full) versus brain response
Joan Lurie is the Founder and CEO of Orgonomics a consultancy she established in 2008 to help leaders and organisations develop, perform, transform and grow.
She is a Fulbright Scholar with a Master’s Degree in Adult Education and a Master’s Degree in Developmental Psychology.
Through her career she has worked in multiple internal and external consultancy roles;
among them – the Head of Organisation Development for PG Bison a publicly listed
manufacturing and distribution company, a senior manager in the Strategy Practice of
Accenture where she led the organisation strategy stream, a Strategy & Transformation
GM for First National Bank leading a large scale transformation during the critical
transition post-apartheid, and an internal culture change consultant for ANZ bank after
immigrating to Australia.
For the last 18 years she has worked as a coach and consultant to executives and leadership
teams to help them navigate their individual and collective adaptive challenges with
turnaround results. Together they emerge new cultures, operating models and ways of
relating.
She works with publicly listed to not-for-profit organisations across multiple sectors from
manufacturing, FMCG, financial services, education and professional services.
Applying OrgonomicsTM the unique systemic methodology she has developed, Joan
provides an ecological ‘map’ and scaffold for leaders to navigate change, while growing
their systemic intelligence and adaptive capacity for complexity in the practice of it.
Her work is most often referred to as liberating.
Joan’s core strength is ‘love of learning’ which she is continuously engaged in for herself
and with others, so we can be at ‘our growing edge’ and thrive in changing.
Her workshop –
When we find ourselves in Uncharted territory, in uncertainty, in places and contexts we’ve never been before we often feel lost. Not knowing how to navigate these, our primitive brain often takes over, our amygdala captures us, and our fear ‘drives’ to the reactive responses. We grab hold of the controls. But if we paused and breathed we would discover, we have a map in our minds and these maps paradoxically could be our greatest underminers instead of enablers They keep us lost. It’s not that we don’t have maps in uncharted places; it’s that we DO have maps of the systems we are in and ourselves in them. We mostly just don’t know we have them, instead they have us, we are captive to them. They are outdated and we are under their spell, eventhough they are ours. So how do we discover these systemic mental maps, reframe them and develop new ones so we can find our way forward…come and ‘explore’ this with me.
This workshop will help you learn how to discover your systemic mental maps, start to reframe them, and develop new ones to be fit for the systems and contexts you find yourself in…so they are not your constraints but your liberators!
Uncharted territory doesn’t mean we’re uncharted…we are always making maps it’s just that they don’t fit the context and the territory we are in, paradoxically though they keep us co-creating where and how we find ourselves in them…
