Kate Beecroft
Organisations fail in predictable ways. Beneath the surface, the relational substrate degrades. The capacity of leaders to stay present and aligned under pressure breaks. The coherence and trust between the people holding it together frays.
Deep coaching with leaders doing the unhurried work of becoming who they need to be. Sense-making for hypercomplexity — we include what traditional business coaching excludes: meaning, mortality, legacy, longing, and the parts of you the company has never met.
Helping networked organisations, communities, and platforms see and unlock the value flowing through their structures. In a networked business, value flows between participants; through shared resources, relationships, and coordination, not just from company to user. Find out how to unlock your network effects.
Helping organisations stay coherent during the system shocks brought about by the Age of Hyperintelligence. The relational substrate determines whether AI makes you stronger or more brittle. We help with strategy, sense making, organization design, and internal coherence.
I facilitate and host this 8-week peer accountability programme for people tired of building alone or just with a bot. Real peers. Real deadline. You ship.
Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2021
A peer-reviewed paper introducing dissensus into debates about peer governance in online communities. Where most blockchain governance seeks to resolve incompatible differences through consensus mechanisms, dissensus proposes that productive disagreement is the precondition for new possibilities to emerge.
European Commission, 2020
A Science for Policy report commissioned by the European Commission mapping 131 projects across Europe using distributed ledger technologies for social and public good — from cooperative economies to participatory governance to digital commons.
Enspiral
I contributed a chapter called Start with I, on what it takes to show up well in collective work, beginning with yourself. Written after a decade experimenting at the edges of collective ownership, governance, and organisational design with the Enspiral network.
I publish a Substack on organisational coherence, discernment, AI and human collaboration, organizing in complex and chaotic systems, and books.
I helped shape Enspiral, one of the world's most influential experiments in networked organising. I have designed governance frameworks for DAOs, cooperatives, and organisations in transition, led governance at Centrifuge, and researched and published on peer governance and distributed systems for the European Commission and peer-reviewed journals.
I have coached and advised numerous leaders, including the CEO of Rewiring Aotearoa through the complexity of leading energy transition in New Zealand. I trained in the Aletheia coaching approach, have worked as a bibliotherapist, and train as a freediver.
Based in Barcelona and New Zealand. Working globally.
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