Within organizations and groups we tend to think about change as something that comes from the outside, or is internally driven. Changes require the organization to adjust, and modify it’s culture. We don’t usually recognize that culture evolves over time. It’s in the details of how the organization is structured, the norms and processes that make it function. Culture is also influenced by external factors – the market, customers, technologies and the talent needed to make organizations function.

You and your organization are in constant movement, and it is inevitable that as you adapt to the context, consciously or unconsciously, you will be located in one of the stages of change:

• Preparation for change. Something is coming. We recognize we need to evolve, our clients ask us to be different, we are going to enter new markets, we are going to change technology, generational change, changes in leadership are coming.
• Assimilation. In transition, in the middle of a project, trying different things. There are unintended implications of the change, we made changes but they didn’t happen as we thought, we are growing and we don’t know how to handle it.
• Evolution. It is not the same anymore, we miss old ways, teams may be larger, lessons learned from projects that ended, we tried to change but we have not succeeded.

Miguel Vazquez del Mercado has worked with organizations across industries for over a decade, and knows how to support sustainable change, an evolution in culture that supports how organizations grow. He uses the skills of Process Work (MA in Organizational Change in 2012) and Julie Diamond’s Power Intelligence®. He has a unique and powerful view of how culture evolves, how we can recognize changes, and support people for sustainable, conscious change.