Advisory | Financial Services

 Our advisory work takes the form of conversations with people who would like to explore and identify the current stories there are telling about their organisation and people, and have an expert story-decipherer listen to and help individuals and groups understand the stories they are telling themselves, the impact of those stories in terms of interpretation, decision-making and action (culture) in the organisation, and how to embrace and incorporate new stories into the daily life of the organisation.

Our advisory approach is subtle and proceeds not according to formal structures and established programmes, but using the tools of story examination, confrontation and renegotiation from Elizabeth’s academic and artistic research.  What is on offer is not another framework or business model, but a greater awareness and confidence of the embodied knowledge within the individuals and teams, and connection to alternative meaning structures.  We help individuals disarm falsely legitimate governing narratives and renewing trust in the individual and their senses of things, and to have and use their voice.

An example of this comes from Elizabeth’s time with a banking client in Russia.  Aware of challenges in the interpersonal dynamics of the leadership team, Elizabeth and her associates spent time creating learning events which allowed the leaders first to embrace new stories about themselves (for this they used the Strengths-Based-Leadership work by Tom Rath), and from there to undertake a series of reflections and conversations about what they most valued about the organisation, and what they most wanted to unravel and renew.  Alongside group work for the Board and Senior Leadership team, Elizabeth spent time coaching the CEO asking questions to enable self-reflection and depth of perception.