Cense offers executive coaching services that equip leaders with the strategic vision, adaptive skills, and systems perspective needed to thrive in today’s complex landscape. With decades of award-winning experience in executive leadership, innovation, academia, and consulting, Dr. Cameron Norman brings a unique approach to leadership development that integrates behavioral psychology, systems thinking, strategic foresight, and design.
Leadership for Complex Times
Today’s leaders face unprecedented challenges: rapid technological change, social disruption, evolving markets, and increasing systemic interconnection. Our coaching approach is specifically designed to build the capacity needed to navigate this complexity with confidence and vision.
We support leaders in:
- Seeing Systems: Recognizing patterns, interdependencies, and leverage points within your organization and broader ecosystem
- Fostering Adaptation: Building organizations that can sense, respond to, and learn from changing conditions
- Designing for Resilience: Creating structures and processes that can withstand disruption while maintaining core functions
- Cultivating Learning Organizations: Establishing feedback mechanisms that transform experience into actionable knowledge
- Leading Strategic Change: Guiding transformative initiatives with both vision and pragmatism
Our Coaching Approach
Our coaching methodology draws on Dr. Norman’s unique combination of academic rigor, practical experience, and design sensibility. Sessions are tailored to individual needs while remaining firmly grounded in evidence-based approaches to leadership development.
Each coaching relationship typically includes:
- Systems Assessment: Mapping the complex dynamics, opportunities, and constraints within your leadership context
- Leadership Style Exploration: Understanding your natural strengths and areas for development as a complexity-aware leader
- Strategic Design Sessions: Working through specific leadership challenges using design thinking and strategic foresight tools
- Adaptive Learning Cycles: Structured reflection on leadership experiments and their outcomes
- Implementation Support: Pragmatic guidance for translating insights into organizational action
For Whom
Our leadership coaching is particularly valuable for:
- Executives Navigating Change: Leaders steering organizations through significant transitions or transformations
- Innovation Leaders: Those responsible for fostering creativity and new thinking within established structures
- Systems Change Agents: Leaders working across organizational boundaries to address complex social challenges
- Emerging Leaders: High-potential individuals preparing to take on greater complexity in their leadership roles
The Cense Difference
What distinguishes our coaching approach is the integration of multiple disciplines and methodologies:
- Systems-Informed: Drawing on complexity science and systems thinking to see beyond linear cause-and-effect
- Design-Driven: Applying creative problem-solving approaches to leadership challenges
- Evidence-Based: Grounding recommendations in research while respecting lived experience
- Developmentally Oriented: Meeting you where you are while creating pathways for growth
Leaders who work with Cense develop not just new skills, but a fundamentally different way of seeing and engaging with complex challenges. They emerge with greater capacity to design adaptive organizations, lead meaningful innovation, and create sustainable impact in an interconnected world.
By investing in leadership coaching with Cense, you’re not just improving your individual effectiveness—you’re building the organizational capacity needed to thrive amid complexity and change.
