THRIVING TEAMS & LEADERS

Organisational Development: Cultivating Systemic Vitality

You've built something worth sustaining. The question is whether the way you work together can handle growth, transition, and the changes you can't yet see coming. We assess where your organisation actually stands, then work with you on the structures, roles, and processes that let it keep growing on its own.

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Who is it for?

Purpose-driven organisations, social enterprises, NGOs, and alliances that are actively navigating growth or transition with challenges like:

  • Your current structure is no longer serving your size or ambition, or doesn’t fit today’s market realities
  • Your team faces recurring friction, unspoken conflict or exhaustion
  • Role ambiguity and slow decision making cost you time and valuable resources
  • Formal or informal leaders feel regularly stretched or bottlenecked
  • You’ve tried Agile methods, self-organisation, sociocracy, or OKRs, only to realise that introducing new governance models didn't address the underlying dynamics

What’s included?

  • Evidence-Based Status Quo Assessment: Our established diagnostic tools surface and contextualise your current challenges
  • Strategy & Ecosystem Mapping: Together we work on your organisational strategy using the Impact Garden, a visual, living-systems inspired framework.
  • Regenerative Organisational Architecture: Co-designing clear roles, responsibilities, and decision-making processes based on what’s currently needed. 
  • Facilitated spaces for teams: We address power dynamics, inclusion, psychological safety, and difficult conversations in a safer space.
  • Integrated Leadership Coaching & Source Work: Individual sessions to build awareness and capacity.

Duration

7–18 months of ongoing support

Expected Outcome

  • Diagnostic Clarity & Grounded Confidence: You gain a clear, honest understanding of development areas and strengths of your organisation. This allows you to focus your energy and contribution where the leverage is highest. 
  • A Strategy You Can Live: We weave together mission, resource allocation, value creation, market conditions, daily collaboration, and human well-being to deliver the impact that you’re striving for.
  • Operational Coherence: Role clarity, transparent decision-making, and practical workflows that match your needs, including the digital tools you run them in.
  • Resilient, Sustained Collaboration: Structures and habits that maintain a healthy culture of communication and protect highly committed teams from burnout and quiet depletion.

Purpose & values in teams

Gain clarity about your team’s purpose & values and how they can support your daily and strategic work.

Trust & team psychological safety

Explore conditions & practices to increase the magic ingredient for effective teamwork: trust.

Giving & receiving feedback

Learn communication practices and approaches for more mindful and effective feedback conversations.

Empowering team decision-making

Learn tools & methods to make decision-making more inclusive, efficient & empowering.

Setting boundaries & saying no

Practise setting and respecting boundaries in leadership and teamwork, and learn tools to communicate them.

Leading with purpose & values

Develop clarity about your purpose & values and how they can guide you as a leader.

Building resilience & handling stress

Develop supportive practices for you and your team to deal with stress and navigate challenges.

Leadership in a changing and complex world

Equip yourself for wayfinding in a VUCA world (volatile - uncertain - complex - ambiguous).

Peer learning in organisations & networks

Tap into the wealth of knowledge, lived experiences and diverse perspectives that are present within every group.

The Impact Garden

Discover a regenerative approach to Theories of Change to create new insights and foster a deeper understanding of your project and work.

Rethinking impact measurement

Learn about measurement as an opportunity to foster participation, reveal hidden potential, and to serve people and the planet.

Collaborative Innovation

Explore how corporations, governments, and civil society can co-create ecosystems that foster life-centered innovation.

Working on the Soil: Foundational Topics

Thriving & Growing: Deep-Dive Topics

Effective team communication and meeting culture

Meetings take up a lot of our time and can drain our energy instead of contributing to meaningful collaboration. Together with you, we analyse your current meeting structure and culture to harness the potential of asynchronous and synchronous work.

Giving & receiving feedback

An organism without sensory input is blind to change and adaptation. Constructive and precise feedback is an essential part of team communication. Considering the statement “clear is kind”, we reflect on a variety of feedback situations and processes.

Empowering team decision-making

Clarity on the process of decision-making can boost team collaboration. Collectively we begin to unlearn old patterns of decision-making and create space to set up and practise appropriate new tools and processes.

Purpose & values in teams

Gain clarity about your team’s purpose & values and how they can support your daily and strategic work.

Trust & team psychological safety

Explore conditions & practices to increase the magic ingredient for effective teamwork: trust.

Giving & receiving feedback

Learn communication practices and approaches for more mindful and effective feedback conversations.

Empowering team decision-making

Learn tools & methods to make decision-making more inclusive, efficient & empowering.

Setting boundaries & saying no

Practise setting and respecting boundaries in leadership and teamwork, and learn tools to communicate them.

Leading with purpose & values

Develop clarity about your purpose & values and how they can guide you as a leader.

Building resilience & handling stress

Develop supportive practices for you and your team to deal with stress and navigate challenges.

Leadership in a changing and complex world

Equip yourself for wayfinding in a VUCA world (volatile - uncertain - complex - ambiguous).

Peer learning in organisations & networks

Tap into the wealth of knowledge, lived experiences and diverse perspectives that are present within every group.

The Impact Garden

Discover a regenerative approach to Theories of Change to create new insights and foster a deeper understanding of your project and work.

Rethinking impact measurement

Learn about measurement as an opportunity to foster participation, reveal hidden potential, and to serve people and the planet.

Collaborative Innovation

Explore how corporations, governments, and civil society can co-create ecosystems that foster life-centered innovation.

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Identify strengths and challenges regarding your organisational health.

Take the Systemic Vitality Scorecard

The Source Principles describe fundamental dynamics of collaboration and are foundational to our work.

Explore the Source Principles

Our Approach

Shifting how people collaborate requires inner shifts as well as structural ones. Working regeneratively is not a fixed endpoint, but a continuous practice of learning and adapting together. You won’t find us convincing you to adopt a one-size-fits-all structure, framework or methodology. We start by asking questions that surface root causes and acknowledge power dynamics. 

Our expertise and experience comes from the intersection of different areas:

  • Evaluation: We map the status quo and make change visible so we know whether we’re on track.
  • Collaboration: We co-design the conditions and structures necessary for a diverse group to contribute to shared goals. 
  • Facilitation: We bring people together for honest and open conversations, fostering joint innovation, learning, and development.

As a fully self-funded social enterprise, Unity Effect has been living the tension between purpose and profitability from the start (read more in our article here). We've been through the uncertainty, the departures, and the periods where our structures stopped matching our reality. It means we know what we're asking of you when we suggest a change.

In a unique way that is rarely found, Emily combines competence, professionalism and creativity with enthusiasm, authenticity and fun. Unity Effect does not only talk social entrepreneurship and new work, they know what it means and how to make it work in real life. I enjoy and have benefited from each and every collaboration with Unity Effect and Emily can only highly recommend them as a competent and professional partner.

Matthias Fecht

Matthias Fecht

Head of HR & Facility Management, Forest Stewardship Council

Thanks to that, for myself I now perceive leadership as the gift and sign of confidence that it is and am happy to assume this role in my organization. We as a team could already implement new structures and tools that help us to grow together and to create a work environment in which we feel safe enough to be ourselves and to bring in all our resources and ideas.

Golde Ebding 2024

Golde Ebding

Managing board member, migration_miteinander e.V.

Pricing

Based on our core principles to empower collaboration and solidarity we aim at a pricing that feels fair and appropriate for both parties. 

Tailored Workshop Series
from 6,000
EUR
7,140
EUR incl. 19 %VAT

For a shorter and more compact team support option, check out our Tailored Workshop Series.

Cultivating Organisational Vitality
from 14,400
EUR
17,136
EUR incl. 19 %VAT

4-7 months including initial and final assessment, customised workshops and individual coaching

Systemic Integration & Regenerative Architecture
from 25,000
EUR
29,750
EUR incl. 19 %VAT

9 months or more, working across several teams and workstreams, with deep work on vision, strategy, and evaluation.

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Your work and your ecosystem is unique. We're here to identify what sustains your ambition.

Schedule a conversation

Let's explore your current situation and how our support could help you move forward.

Schedule a conversation

Take the Systemic Vitality Scorecard

Identify strengths and challenges regarding your organisational health.

Take the Systemic Vitality Scorecard

Explore the Source Principles

The Source Principles describe fundamental dynamics of collaboration and are foundational to our work.

Explore the Source Principles

Building thriving organisations based on the Source principles

Read more
If we consider and value the special role of Source and pay attention to the order and connection of Sources in our initiatives, they become powerful and focused. Working with Source allows us to follow the flow of creativity and commitment – exceeding formal hierarchies and mission statements on paper – to let human initiatives thrive.

Introducing Unity Effect’s Living Library

Read more
At Unity Effect, we have been experimenting from day one with what supports us, knowing about the challenges not only to “talk New Work”, but to embody a paradigm of true collaboration. After countless hours of research, facilitation, supporting events, measuring impact and networking, we have now gathered all that we’ve learned and experienced in one place for you: Unity Effect’s Living Library.

Introducing the Capacity Compass: A practical framework for capacity development

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The Capacity Compass is built on a simple yet powerful idea: thriving individuals, teams, and systems are built upon a set of foundational human capacities. Drawing on foundational work in systems thinking, complexity science, psychology, and insights from contemplative and indigenous knowledge traditions, the Compass identifies 28 core capacities across individual and collective levels. It provides a shared language for the essential human and relational qualities needed for regenerative impact.
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Building thriving organisations based on the Source principles

If we consider and value the special role of Source and pay attention to the order and connection of Sources in our initiatives, they become powerful and focused. Working with Source allows us to follow the flow of creativity and commitment – exceeding formal hierarchies and mission statements on paper – to let human initiatives thrive.
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Introducing Unity Effect’s Living Library

At Unity Effect, we have been experimenting from day one with what supports us, knowing about the challenges not only to “talk New Work”, but to embody a paradigm of true collaboration. After countless hours of research, facilitation, supporting events, measuring impact and networking, we have now gathered all that we’ve learned and experienced in one place for you: Unity Effect’s Living Library.
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5 min read

Introducing the Capacity Compass: A practical framework for capacity development

The Capacity Compass is built on a simple yet powerful idea: thriving individuals, teams, and systems are built upon a set of foundational human capacities. Drawing on foundational work in systems thinking, complexity science, psychology, and insights from contemplative and indigenous knowledge traditions, the Compass identifies 28 core capacities across individual and collective levels. It provides a shared language for the essential human and relational qualities needed for regenerative impact.