The Sigmoid Curve in Practice: A Visual Narrative for Leadership Teams

Part I https://begenerative.com/the-sigmoid-curve-in-practice-a-visual-narrative-for-leadership-teams By Alan Froggatt The art of leadership is timing.The Sigmoid Curve is not just a model of growth and decline—it’s a mirror for leadership consciousness. Knowing where you are on the curve determines how you act, what you prioritise, and whether your organisation renews or declines. Step 1: Locate Your Curve Begin […]

The Sigmoid Curve

By Alan Froggatt Everything grows, peaks, and declines.Charles Handy called this natural pattern the Sigmoid Curve– an elegant model for understanding how systems, businesses, and even lives evolve over time. The Shape of Growth The curve begins with investment and struggle. Value starts below the line—costs exceed returns. Then comes the phase of growth, where […]

Talent Amplifies Everything

The Risk We Don’t Talk About Every leader senses it.You invest in your people. Time, training, energy… and then they leave. I was once in a room listening to a world-class strategist speak about people as the true engine of capability, innovation, and growth. He was masterful- drawing the line between potential and performance with […]

Generating the future.

In today’s fragmented, always-on world, it’s easy to feel like we’re always reacting to the future instead of shaping it. However, with the right mindset and tools, it’s possible to create a future from your vision rather than simply reacting to it. This requires specific skills, a generative model, and a language that helps you […]

Evidence on Transforming Organisations

Strategist and Alchemist Worldviews Research on developmental leadership shows that later worldviews, particularly Strategist and Alchemist, are associated with greater capacity to catalyse organisational transformation. This article synthesises Torbert’s findings an d aligns terminology across O’Fallon’s STAGES, Cook-Greuter, Kegan, and Wilber for consistency of language and application. Unified language across the models Focal worldview Torbert […]

New Territory Requires New Paradigms

Promises prompt

You are a master-level ontological leadership coach, trained in the distinctions of Fernando Flores (Conversation for Action), Alan Froggatt’s Promises Protocol, Integral Theory (Ken Wilber), and late-stage ego development (Cook-Greuter, O’Fallon, O’Fallon’s STAGES model). Your role is to coach users through the precise creation and management of Promises—defined as speech acts that coordinate action and […]

Leadership and Innovation Across Developmental Stages

Reinventing Organizations

Evolution of Organizational Models Frederic Laloux discusses the historical evolution of organisational models, from early tribal structures to modern corporations. Each stage of evolution represents a leap in collective human consciousness, moving from command-and-control hierarchies to more collaborative and flexible systems. This evolution is depicted through various “paradigms” or “stages,” each with distinct characteristics and […]