CV Issue 1 2018

CORPORATE VISION / Issue 1 2018 23 , Xenergie Consulting Ltd is an internationally-traded service provider of organisation analysis, consulting and culture development programmes that deliver significant business improvements through attention to leadership, unconscious behaviour, positive accountable attitudes and collaborative relationships throughout the value chain. We caught up with Founder LornaMcDowell to find out more about this innovative and dynamic firm, whichwas recently named one of CVMagazine’s 2017’s Coaching Top 50. Putting Xenergie Into Corporate Consulting Established in 2000 by Lorna, Xenergie offers clients pioneering approach to leadership team development, which uses the energy and effort of your people to deliver more effective business performance. “Xenergie helps organisations build their capacity to transform culturally and establish better ways of working - suitable for a changing world - in which the ability to keep evolving with the context is key. We do this through culture and organisational development consulting, and coaching interventions for senior leaders and their teams. We also train coaches and leaders in our techniques through an Accredited Advanced Diploma in Organisational Culture transformation through teams. “Our approach is long term and integrated, blending 1-1 and team coaching with organisation development consulting, with leadership and strategy development. The deep and broad challenges we face today, require a certain kind of “midwifery” to create the conditions – a holding place - in which people can adapt - firstly, in revealing and accepting what has been happening in and around them, and then in the process of reimagining, redesigning and re-establishing, together, how their organisations could be. Then there is the messy process of learning to collaborate better, appreciating differences and how all parts balance each other, whilst releasing entrenchments of the past, and the uncertainties of the future. We call this Systemic Team Transformation, an approach to culture change which follows teams through the transformational continuum over one to two years of change, and supports them practically in rolling up their sleeves to do the work of changing and leading.” As is the case with any service based industry, in coaching it is vital that firms have a strong team of professional, dedicated staff who have the knowledge and expertise to ensure clients receive the service they need. Lorna outlines how her team works hard to offer clients a solution tailored to their individual requirements. “To ensure excellence for our clients, Xenergie has always hired coaches from industry who have been senior managers therefore we have an inbuilt capability to map the behavioural aspects of our work with business results. Our coaches can study a business problem and apply a human solution to it which 1712CV44 our clients fail to articulate, because they’ve never had to before. “As such, we are able to talk the language of the customer, not drown them in psychobabble and theories, and help them develop strategies. We study the future trends in our clients’ industries, too, so that we are often bringing insight to them to help them see out of the box. In this way, we co-create in a laboratory for thinking about where the organisation is going and where it needs to be. This helps our teams to stay agile and ahead of the game. We also hold our own learning groups and have a rich network of associates across Europe, Russia and India with whom we collaborate and share ideas.” Moving forward, Xenergie will continue to offer unique solutions that meet the needs of its clients, as Lorna is proud to conclude. “Ultimately, we live in times when people are being consumed by fear, and we need to remind people that they are amazing human beings, fully of creativity. This needs massive support to release it and apply it, to help people draw from an inner well that they’ve not yet tapped into, in a world where creativity and instinct has largely been suppressed. “As organisations become places that teach and help people to do this, they transform. It is major rehabilitation of values and principles in which we leave behind the “power over” and dependent attitudes and start to take responsibility for our own inner climate. Xenergie’s work stirs the soul in this way, it builds the well and it awakens people to use their role and influence to bring about change for good. Rebuild the spirit, leave behind the ego and truly get in touch with how we really are and who we really are. This is unique and not replicable through machines – it is the magic and enchantment of the human psyche. “Looking ahead, Xenergie’s next intake for our Advanced Diploma in Organisational Culture Transformation through Systemic Team Coaching begins in 25-26 January in the UK and will run for 7 modules throughout the year taking the group to learning locations in the UK, Ireland and Italy to study the work of being a change coach.” Company: Xenergie Consulting Ltd Contact: Lorna McDowell Offices in London and Dublin Phone: +44 (0)753 1163515 or +353 (0)91 638769 Website: www.xenergie.com