By Harry McCord
The past few years have given our society one challenge after another, and they keep coming. We’re facing a growing mountain of interconnected racial, cultural, legal, gender, environmental, and economic crises that demand human centered innovation on a massive scale that most of us have never thought to imagine.
KAIROS (kai·ros-/ˈkīräs/)
An ancient Greek phrase that means: A decisive moment for the accomplishment of crucial action.
“What do we do now? What do we do next?”
These are the questions we hear from our clients over and over. They know things aren’t working, and they have the will to do something about it. But figuring out what “it” means is the challenge.
In response to this kairos, some organizations freeze up with uncertainty, hunker down and try to outlast it, or wait cautiously for someone else to make the first move.
But there are other organizations who react to this kairos with courage and commitment: the Progress Makers. They look beyond “best practices” and innovate from the inside out, building new strategies from the observations, values, and aspirations inherent in the organization’s culture.
Our goal is to transform every organization we partner with into a Progress Maker.
We want to help them figure out how to use this kairos to build a more livable future for all of us, where power is fairly shared and justice fiercely protected.
It’s a radical endeavor that requires a radical approach: to empathy, to inclusion, and to the experiences we create with each other.
