François Knuchel Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

HOLDING SPACE FOR GENERATIVE DIALOGUE - ENABLING NEW WORLD VUCA KNOW-HOW - LEARNING IN COMMUNITYMy primary focus in our current crisis is to create spaces (esp online) for organisations and communities to come together for deep generative dialogue on the issues that concern them: Co-reinventing a new world based on principles, not on rules or tools. Deep Dialogue is the dynamo that shapes our world, but it needs to be inclusive, bringing multiple perspectives, to enable new emergent patterns to be probed and developed, starting from deep listening.Active in various modalities and with multiple expertise suited to a new world of thrivability, self-organisation and emergence, I assist organisations and communities, through learning workshops, to make better decisions, increase innovation, and improve work, communication and cash flow by engaging the hearts and minds of their members & clients. A holistic systems approach to leadership - sustaining wiser leadership in the face of complexity, diversity and uncertainty.I believe 3 areas are vital for organisations to shift the paradigm :• VUCA skills (Communities of Practice to learn integrative skills for VUCA)• IMAGINATION skills in Complexity (Rapid reinvention and adaptation skills)• THRIVING FLOW (Co-creating systems to work fluidly and reduce waste & toxicity)Pull-based organic workflow increases service & value to clients while raising wealth & growth potential; it also removes waste (costs & toxins), eliminates non-value creating steps and establishes a levelled workflow. In my experience, however, none of this is possible without a workforce where all members are fully engaged & respected as equivalent humans beings, co-determining the direction of their organisations.Three core approaches I work with:• Dynamic Co-Governance (Sociocracy)• Conversational Leadership (Open Space Technology)• REVAURANTS: spaces for dreaming and imagining a new futurehttps://open2flow.co.ukhttps://open2flow.com

London, England, United Kingdom

REIMAGINING ORGANISATIONS TO BE CRAFTED FROM WITHINHelping organisations help themselves to reinvent work and organisations. LEARNING LABS.Our flagship product is a simulation which is an embodied experience that shifts mindsets in a way that can’t be done with data and logic alone. At its core, it is a rich simulation in which participants make decisions, solve problems and strive to complete tasks in highly diverse environments, each operating from different sets of invisible rules and assumptions. GoFish! Swimulation: unique and energetic approach to unlocking deep cultural issues that hold your organisation back from doing their best work.

England

TRANSFORMING OUR ORGANISATIONS FROM BELOW THROUGH INVITATIONInvitation-based organisational transformation at scale applying "co-located co-creation": Enabling #Orgshift (organisational paradigm shift) through an Open-Space Technology framework, a people-centred approach which enables Transformation at scale.OPEN SMART TRANSFORMATION (OST) - Using Open Space transformation to invite and engage all affected in a new system or methodology adoption, (e.g. agile, lean, responsive, sociocracy, vanguard, holacracy, conscious business, Kaizen, innovative sustainability management or similar). Smart system, smart working and smart adoption. Inviting those creating client value to co-create a new culture, rather than imposing it. Supporting leaders, consultants and change agents in implementing such smarter systems and in transforming organisations to Kaizen/Innovation culture. OSA: - Open Space Agility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - Open Source Advocate - Open Smart Adoption . . . . . . . . . . . . . - Organic System Alive - Open System Architect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . http://CATERFLY.CO.UKHosted Shift event 2015/16: Why aren't Organisations Shifting? . . . http://shift1.caterfly.co.uk http://orgshift.uk: Community of change-makers for fundamental paradigm shift in organisations .

BRINGING GLOBAL THOUGHT COMMUNITIES TOGETHER TO RESHAPE THE WAY WE WORK.The Future of Work (FoW) 24 hours is an inclusive global "unconference" bringing multiple thought communities together using Open Space Technology online on QiqoChat to explore the future of work over a period of 24 hours. Our vision is to cultivate workplace experiments and new work patterns. The event is taking place on 7 - 8 May, 2021, online globally.Generating interest in Future of Work 24 hour Open Space event early May 2021 to garner sponsorship support from organisations around the world. A special focus is being placed on equity and diversity, and enabling dialogue online in less privileged parts of the world.https://www.linkedin.com/events/futureofwork24hrs-aglobaldialog6772560111178264576/

The Global Alliance of Reinvention Professionals provides you with skills, strategy, and resources that will allow you to confidently give your organization or your clients the gift that keeps on giving — the ability to handle any disruption, to turn uncertainty into opportunity, to turn reinvention into your super-power to secure the only strategic advantage that works for our turbulent times.

London, United Kingdom

INSPIRATION • INTEGRATION • INNOVATIONHolding Company for OPEN 2 FLOW from 2010.Previously:• Facilitating collaboration across barriers and borders to enhance client/user satisfaction and worth to common good (triple-bottom-line). Helping organisations improve cash flow by removing bottlenecks in communication and workflow. Run simulations, workshops and Open Space large group events• Intercultural simulations and action research (organisational decision-making across cultures, understanding and working with the cultural differences). Experiential learning workshops, intercultural simulations (as action learning platform), East-West workshops and holistic leadership exchanges.• Interim Manager at various SME, including General Manager and Business Development Manager. Independent Leadership coach and London consultant for SWISS CONSULTING GROUP, Zurich & New York.• Co-founded ROUTE 2 SOLUTIONS (sales & marketing support, esp assisting companies to penetrate the UK market). Long engagement with Israeli software platform supporting stationery wholesales and business retailers • Business Analyst & Consultant member of CBS (Confederation of Business Strategists), supporting local SME's with strategy, marketing and financial support• Writing of articles and workshops on holistic peak performance & innovation in diversity: ‘Rejuvenating the Organisation’, ‘Collaborating Beyond Teams’ and ‘Caring Beyond Pleasantries’ http://transcultural-synergy.co.uk .

England

REMAKING THE WAY WE WORK - DISRUPTING BUSINESS AS USUAL & SHAPING THE EMERGING FUTUREThrough learning facilitation we enable and inspire self-organizing, self-governing individuals and organizations that care for people and the sustainability of the planet.We work with culture change and organisational transformation, including reinventing organisations to employee ownership, sociocratic governance and/or lean, agile and responsive operations through explored advice, facilitation and coaching. And we always do this from a position of understanding the staff or people involved - which is why we don't have ready made solutions. I'm a dirty consultant, and that's what I love!The Human Organising Co grew out of collaboration of the Human Organising Project created early 2015 which included:* Provoking and stimulating new thinking around work and organising - centred around people* Conceiving humans as capable of self-direction and self-governance, and* designing our organisations accordingly. http://HUMANORGANISING.COAlso 2015-2017 Co-organiser of Festival of Human Organising Project in June 2016, London UK: http://festival.humanorganing.org

Farnham, Surrey, U.K.

Design-in industrial (aerospace, automotive, electronic, ....) quick-release fasteners (quarter-turns, toggle fasteners, bespoke latches). Acquired by McKechnie, but now part of SOUTHCO group.• Headed sales, marketing, business development, technical support, client relations and distributor support of blue-chip clients in Japan, later Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, China, India, Australia and New Zealand, with focus on meeting local Japanese and Asian needs and specifications, and to grow business across area. Initially Sales Manager for Japan, later Regional Manager for the whole of Asia-Pacific. • Strengthened strategic partnerships with major agents. Identified and appointed new distributors to consolidate network throughout Asia-Pacific. Enhanced client relations (B2B) and brand perception in Japan & Asia. Clients included Honda, NEC, Hitatchi, Yamaha, Matsushita, Kubota, Samsung. Also drove forward major technical support initiative with distributors throughout region to improve customer support expertise & service and boost distributor / sales engineer motivation.• Introduced Lean thinking practices to production, engineering and supply chain managers to help improve quality, cost and delivery of products to be able to meet Asian customer demands, especially Japanese stringent requirements. This included introducing JIT, Heijunka, Kanban, PDCA problem-solving and Kaizen. Lean transformation was a slow but successful process...

Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

"- Corporate trainer for blue-chip Japanese companies in technology transfer projects, as intercultural consultant, language trainer and curriculum designer, with international executives. Stages as Project Manager, Director of Studies, Personnel Manager, Branch Manager and Executive Director. Involved in various aspects of management (sales, marketing, quality control, trainer-training, general management). - MACC-LR: Seconded for 3 years to MACC-LR manage language, cross-cultural and training support for Canadian automotive General Motors - Suzuki Joint Venture transplant of lean manufacturing (pull Nagare flow). This involved specialised consulting and training of 200 Japanese technical & plant experts for this technology transfer project (Japanese manufacturing know-how and management principles) to new automobile plant in Canada, CAMI, in Ingersoll, Ontario. Managed team of trainers within Kosai Plant as Director of Studies. Also co-ordinated documentation of production operation manuals for transplant. Hands-on use of Japanese lean process & cost reduction tools: TQC, TPM, Kaizen, JIT, Kanban, Production Levelling, Muda, 5S, ..... . For detailed account see: http://ow.ly/gAVUU- General clients included Kobe Steel (Kobelco), Toyota, Pioneer, Honda, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Siemens-Asahi, Fuji-Xerox, Ebara, Yamanouchi Pharmaceuticals, NYK Lines, Hilton Hotels, Tokio Marine Insurance, A.I.G., U.B.S, Japan Management Association Also set up MBA business school entry training (GMAT, TOEFL, interviewing) and counselling for high flyers at Sanwa Bank. ."

Canada, Switzerland, Japan

• 1977 Cutco, Vancouver, Canada, Sales Representative• 1978 Ciba-Geigy Ltd, Edmonton, Canada, Assistant in fibre-glass pipes for oil industry• 1979 Alte Muehle, Bern, Switzerland, Assistant for green sustainable energy project using solar energy• 1980 Cairns, Osaka, Japan, EFL Teacher and Teacher Trainer• 1981 IBC, Kyoto, Japan, Translator of technical manuals (plant machinery) for Kubota, Mitsubishi & NEC.Throughout this period extensive travels within Europe, incl Eastern Europe, North Africa, North & Central America, Soviet Uniion and South East Asia.

Ba, Communication (Linguistics, Intercultural Relations, Cybernetics, Systems, Transdisciplinary Collab), A (Gpa: 3.8 / 4)

Activities and Societies: Drama Society Montreal, Canada. BA Great Distinction '77

Bachelor'S Degree, German & English Literature, History, Linguistics

Activities and Societies: Toastmaster: Presenting Basel, Switzerland

Federal Institute Of Technology, Architecture

Activities and Societies: Supported peers in final year-group development work - intensive collaborative work on architectural project.