Collaborate & Innovate Better.
The Expansive Thinking process helps teams increase their performance and unlock their collective intelligence.
Has your team maximised its full collective intelligence potential?
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Expansive Thinking gets your team to think - and act - differently.
Build Psychological Safety
Create a Positive & Open Environment
Unlock Exponential Intelligence from the Team
How Does Expansive Thinking Work?
Expansive Thinking is an exploration process focused on facilitating the collective intelligence of the team to emerge. Each idea shared in the group is connected to the last idea, “stacking” ideas on top of each other to collectively build something new and meaningful.
The 3 Phases of Expansive Thinking Success
Starting The Team Off Right
Using Expansive Thinking To Open Possibilities
Expansive Thinking is an active, collaborative, forward-moving exploration process where your team re-imagines challenges and expands the realm of possible innovative solutions.
Transforming Expansive Thinking Into Action
Expansive Thinking takes into account when the exploration phase is over and how to bring dreams back to reality. The team stays high performing and agile through execution.
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Expansive Thinking vs. Other Team Methods
Expansive Thinking
Exponential Power
Every contribution adds new insights, depth, and nuance to expand possibilities.1 + 1 = exponential!
More & Better Ideas
New ideas emerge as a direct result of the conversation as it happens live.Unique Stacking Method
Team members contribute brand new thoughts based on others' contributions.
The Others
Collaboration
Working together to exchange information and get tasks accomplished.1 + 1 = 2 process.
Brainstorming
Working together to create solutions and next steps.
The loudest voice wins.
Co-Creation
Working together to create solutions and next steps.
1 + 1 = 3, at best
How You as a Leader Can Cultivate Expansive Thinking
Read our headline article in Developing Leaders Quarterly, the magazine that identifies the best and most usable cutting edge research and distills it into ready-to-action Ideas for the real world.
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Meet The Expansive Thinking Team
Lisa Christen
Zurich, Switzerland
Lisa is an Executive Coach and the CEO of Christen Coaching & Consulting GmbH. She specializes in 21st century leadership and the human skills needed in the digital era. Lisa is an official member of the Forbes Coaches Council and a Fellow Member of the Institute of Coaching McLean / Harvard Medical School. She has been featured in news outlets such as CNN Money, Forbes, Thrive Gloval, and Coaching World.
Rolf Pfeiffer
Frankfurt, Germany