• July 31 · Virtual · 3 hours · Max 8 participants · $597

The Disruption Spiral

Reverse the Dynamics Dragging You — and Your People — Down

A peer workshop for senior people leaders at mission-driven organizations navigating change.

The pain created by organizational change won’t stop on its own.

You're carrying significant complexity through organizational change, probably for longer than you've let on to the people around you. Decisions made without enough information.

The disconnect between executive leadership and the people who make it happen. The weight of being the person everyone looks to for steadiness. The sense that no matter how hard you work, something keeps pulling you — and your organization — further down.

You're not here because you're failing. You're here because you've sensed for a while that something unique is driving the spiral. And you're ready to reverse it.

This workshop is for the senior people leaders who are done watching the same dynamics play out — in themselves, in their teams, and in their organizations — and ready to finally reverse them.

The leaders who navigate disruption well don't do it alone.

You've been carrying significant organizational complexity — probably for longer than you've let on to the people around you. The decisions made without enough information. The weight of being the person everyone looks to for steadiness. The gap between what you can see in your organization and what you can actually do about it alone.

You're not here because you're struggling. You're here because you're ready to stop navigating this in isolation — and to leave with something concrete.

This workshop is for the senior people leaders who are done going it alone through disruption, and ready to find a way forward with peers who actually understand the terrain.

Before, during, and after

Before you arrive

You'll complete the Disruption Dynamics Check-In — a short assessment that maps which of the three dynamics are most active in your leadership and organization right now, and what factors are driving them. You'll bring those insights into the room.

During the workshop

You'll move through a structured three-hour experience with your cohort — a small group of peers from mission-driven organizations navigating the same pressures.

Together you'll surface what's true in your organizations, share insights and approaches across different contexts, and work through which ideas and shifts are most relevant to your specific situation. John facilitates — but the group generates the clarity.

By the time you close, you'll leave with a concrete, actionable framework for not only reversing these dynamics in your organization, but future-proofing against them — so you don't get pulled back into the same spiral when the next, even more significant disruption arrives.

After the workshop

The relationships built in a cohort this size don't end when the session does. You’ll leave with a peer community that understands what you're navigating — without needing all the context.

What The Disruption Spiral actually is

This is not a training. There's no curriculum to complete, no certification to earn, and no consultant handing you a change management framework to implement when you get back to

the office.

It's a structured peer experience built around three common specific dynamics that show up in virtually every mission-driven organization navigating significant disruption:

These three dynamics don't operate independently. Together, they form a downward spiral — each one feeding the next, accelerating the pull, and making it harder to see a way out from the inside.

Over-sacrificing

The chronic depletion that results from a culture that treats personal wellness, boundaries, and balance as luxuries the mission just can't afford. It's modeled, encouraged, and rewarded — until it results in total burnout.

Over-individualizing

The tendency to diagnose systemic problems as individual ones, directing energy at people rather than the organizational forces and structures

actually driving poor outcomes.

Over-solving

Leading change through urgency, pressure, and burning platforms — an approach that at best produces compliance and more often feeds exhaustion and change resistance.

This workshop is where you finally see them clearly and where you start the work of reversing them.

Who belongs
here.

This workshop is for CHROs, Chief People Officers, VPs of People and Culture, and other HR and OD leaders at nonprofits, NGOs, higher education institutions, and other mission-driven organizations.

You're the right fit if you're currently navigating significant organizational disruption — restructuring, leadership transition, rapid growth, or funding uncertainty — and you recognize at least one of the three dynamics above in you or your organization.

You're not the right fit if you're looking for a training program, a certification, or a consultant to tell you what to do. This is a peer-led experience where you and other participants generate the

clarity.

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This cohort is limited to 8 participants. The work we do together can only happen at this scale.

What you'll
leave with.

By the time we close, you'll have:

A clear picture of which dynamics have been driving the spiral in your leadership and organization.

And why they've been so hard to see from the inside.

Peer insights from leaders navigating the same pressures in different organizational contexts.

The kind of perspective that months of solo thinking can't produce.

A concrete, actionable framework

For reversing the three dynamics and future-proofing your organization against the next disruption.

A personal next step

named by you, witnessed by your cohort. Not a takeaway document. A decision you made in the room.

A peer community

That already understands what you're carrying — without needing the backstory.

facilitator

John
Hildebrand

Executive Coach • Facilitator • Organizational Change Strategist

Help you find your own answers — with clarity, confidence, and support.

John works with senior people leaders at mission-driven organizations — humanitarian NGOs, nonprofits, healthcare groups, and higher education institutions — navigating some of the most complex organizational challenges in their sectors.

John's approach isn't to hand you answers or a framework. It's to create the conditions where you can finally see what's actually true — in your organization, in your leadership, and in the dynamics that have been quietly driving the spiral — and what to do about it.

In addition to his work with leaders and organizations, John teaches leadership and

organizational change at Rockhurst University's Helzberg School of Management in Kansas City, MO.

He earned his Masters in Positive Organization Development and Change from Case Western Reserve University and is a certified CliftonStrengths Coach and Appreciative Inquiry facilitator.