Partners Worldwide

The Axelrod Group helped to pioneer the use of large groups to bring about organizational change. It's Conference Model process for redesigning organizations and processes has received international recognition in books, articles, and videos. Richard Axelrod is the author of Terms of Engagement: Changing The Way We Change Organizations. The Axelrod Group is a partner with VISTA and Robert Jacobs in VCA Global Ventures.

Robert Jacobs a management consultant and authority on the complexities of whole-systems change, specializes in supporting organizations in achieving rapid, sustainable, organization-wide transformation. Jake's book is titled Real Time Strategic Change: How to Involve an Entire Organization in Fast and Far-Reaching Change. Jake believes the key to creating the future faster is a distinctive combination of work with senior executives, managers and front line workers including intensive "roll-up-the-sleeves" large group working sessions of up to 2,000 people at a time.

Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff are the creators of Future Search, an innovative planning conference used world-wide by hundreds of communities and organizations. It enables people to create shared visions and implement co-operative action plans across boundaries. They co-authored the book Future Search: An action guide to finding common ground in organisations and communities

Consulting Futures engage with business partners to develop and implement solutions to their unique business challenges. They are committed to increasing the internal capability of leaders and other staff.

Barry Oshry for over thirty years Barry Oshry has been on a single-minded quest to unlock the mysteries of power and powerlessness in social system life. In 1970 he created the Power & Leadership Conference (Power Lab) and since the mid-1970s he has developed and conducted organizational simulations with Tops, Middles, Bottoms and Customers that have been used to create "system sight" for organizations and institutions throughout the world. Barry is the author of Seeing Systems and Leading Systems, among others.

Barry Johnson helps organisations identify and manage issues where there are not apparent right answers, for example : do we want quality or quantity, focus on the team or the whole organisation, expansive leadership or focussed leadership? Barry has identified these as Polarities and has developed a simple, yet highly effective, suit of tools to help organisations with this process. Barry's book is titled Polarity Management(™) Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems.