Who we are
Democratizing leadership development
Leadership development has mostly been offered to a few people near the top of organizations. We think everyone who leads should have the support they need, whether they lead a team, a project, a family, or only themselves.
It also means development that lasts: done over time, practiced in your own work, with a development mentor alongside. That is what we mean by democratizing leadership development.
Adeptify grows out of years of academic research integrated into consulting practice about how leaders develop. It draws on networks of colleagues who have also worked deeply on these questions, as well as what many mentors have passed on along the way.
Adeptify is owned and operated by the Center for Transformative Leadership AS, a Norwegian company.
The team
Jonathan Reams, PhD
Co-founder and principal consultant
Jonathan works on how leadership grows: as a consultant and development mentor, and through action research on how leadership development is designed and delivered. He is a co-founder of the Center for Transformative Leadership and its Chief Creative Officer.
His focus is the inner workings of human nature, and small, repeated development processes that build the capacities complex work asks of people. He leads mentor orientation.
Juliane Reams, PhD candidate
Senior researcher
Juliane does the research behind our action research and our programs. Her focus is the foundations of self-leadership, in particular building emotional resilience. She also holds debriefing conversations about developmental assessments, as a development mentor.
John Richard Hanssen
Co-founder and senior consultant
John Richard supports organizations through change, taking an integral view of organizational development. Besides being a partner in the Center for Transformative Leadership, he works as a management consultant on digital change through Abilator.
Wayne Buckhanan, PhD
Developer and consultant
Wayne supports and advises on building the Adeptify platform. He is a computer scientist, electrical engineer, physicist and mathematician, and has taught electrical engineering and computer science at university.
He has taught ChangeWorks®, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Applied Neuro Synergy and 4MAT® instructional design, and his work with people draws on productive tension management, Octalysis gamification, ChangeGrid® and the LAB Profile.
Mark Keily
Consultant
Mark is a strategist in leadership and organization development with more than 35 years of experience across industries, much of it in senior vice-president and general manager roles reporting to business unit managing directors. He is an active member of the Australasian Thinking Environment Collegiate.
Clint Fuhs, PhD
Senior consultant
Clint is a consultant in organization and leadership development, with expertise in human development and organizational learning. For more than fifteen years he has designed work that builds people's capacity, in technology, education, the military, pharmaceuticals, retail, research and human services.
Associate consultants
Associate consultants work with us on our own engagements, with our clients.
Around the team is a wider, informal network of partner consultants and development mentors, who work with their own clients through the Leader Development Center. Consultants and Coaches →
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Our associate consultants will be introduced here as they join.
Partners
We work with partners in research and practice who share our interest in how people develop.
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