Culture Shift and Next Stage Organisations Facilitator / Consultant

Keen to introduce self-organising living systems and holistic thinking into health and care. This includes multi-disciplinary collaboration, as well as enabling people who do all the hard value-creating caring work (careworkers, nurses etc.) to grow and flourish, by creating the right conditions and safe environment. This requires a mind-set shift and a new spirit of learning and change.

While my background is not in health or care per se, I have a keen interest in it working well as a consumer, and I have many transferable skills which I think may benefit the field. This includes a strong background in lean thinking, learned on the shop-floor for many years in Japan, reducing waste, continuous improvement (Kaizen) and empowering the workers. As an Open Space facilitator I focus on enabling deep conversations between various stakeholder to unfold. I also specialise in decentralised collaborative decision-making.

Having lived and worked in 3 continents (Europe, America and Asia) and worked in a large variety of settings, I hope to be able to contribute with a different perspective on health and care.  I believe the field needs to shift from a mechanical mindset to a more organic one, honouring the humanity and potential of carers, and bringing in a more holistic perspective to the whole system.

PROFILE:

François is a vastly experienced trainer and consultant, specialising in transcultural management training, new-paradigm leadership and lean business design. His experience of using circle management methods in the Japanese automotive industry has deeply influenced his passion for re-imagining the way that we work together. He is an important member of Open Space and Sociocracy communities and has been working with Lean Management since before it was called Lean.  Francois is a director of the Human Organising Co, and co-founder of Caterfly. He is also co-founder and former co-organiser of RSA’s fast-growing ‘Reinventing Work Network’. He runs his own independent training business as Open 2 Flow. François has been exploring different facets of collaborative decision-making and self-management in organisations for the last 20 years.