Formerly a digital innovation engineer, in 1983 I joined one of the world's leading open innovation labs.

When one of our clients asked me to help "their people behave more like our people" it launched the unique career path I've been on ever since.

Innovative, agile organisations thrive on rich interactions between people with different perspectives.

But without the right culture throughout the organisation, diverse perspectives lead to misalignment and fragmentation...

Traditional ways of organising encourage entrenched local perspectives that stifle value creation.

Innovation, agility, and adaptiveness only flourish when people respect, value and integrate their diverse perspectives to co-create new value.

People with innovative 2D3D mindsets don't just tolerate people with different perspectives - they actively seek them out.

This mindset emerges naturally and automatically when the penny drops that none of us ever sees the whole picture...

Tempted by external consultants, vision, mission and values statements, sheep dip training, top team coaching?

These four classic approaches all fail to focus precisely enough and deeply enough on shifting key influencer mindsets.

Every organisation has its own unique set of key influencers whose attitudes and behaviours systemically affect everyone and everything else.

It's a big mistake to assume these people are always in the most senior positions.

What we see can easily become entangled with our sense of who we are.

These Seeing-Being Traps are the #1 personal barrier to creating cultures of innovation, agility, and adaptiveness.

Examples of work with senior executives and internal change catalysts throughout Europe, Asia and the US, over 35 years.

These cases illustrate how shifts in key influencer mindsets systemically affect everyone and everything else.