How To Survive any Change with Grace – in Just 7 Minutes with Dr. Natasha Todorovic-Cowan

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Summary:

Dr. Natasha Todorovic-Cowan is the CEO and co-founder of the National Values-Center Consulting (and owner of Spiral Dynamics brand). Whether your challenges are resistance to change, cultures in conflict, strategic partnerships, dysfunctional teams, or strategic change implementation, Natasha's experience includes unraveling the people side of organizational challenges from C-suite to shop floor using a proven human systems approach.

For over 25 years Natasha has been working with leaders, consultants, coaches, and organizations applying her proprietary Spiral Dynamics cultural DNA survey, leadership assessments, and change readiness index to predict hurdles to change. Her techniques for handling corporate change are rooted in 70 years of research and application in a variety of industries and sectors.

Here are the highlights of this episode:

Dr. Natasha's ideal client would be a senior executive who is in a transformation and people-oriented. She says that every time there's a profit or production problem, IT IS a people-problem. If your team is not rowing in the same direction, if there is unproductive conflict, if people are showing up but not putting an effort or not engaging, or a merger acquisition that you are concerned it will go south, then these are actually a people-problem. What Dr. Natasha sees is that when they try to solve this problem on their own, they tend to focus mostly on the nitty-gritty stuff like the legalities or finance, and not putting into account the people-side of it. Leaders are not aligning change for the way people want to or able to absorb change, perhaps not even taking people's motivational flows into account. She says that everyone has cognitive biases or blind spots to other human beings, so her team helps in trying to build that bridge biases and understand people at a core level. 

Dr. Natasha’s Valuable Free Action (VFA):

One of the things that she always insists on is to take a people-centered assessment to give you the landscape. Because whatever you think is going on, that's not going on.