Ready is not a state. It’s a practice.

Build the collective capacity to absorb turbulence, adapt deliberately, and keep creating without exhausting your organization.

Most organizations have a dominant form.

Programmed Machine
Professional Assembly
Personal Enterprise
Project Pioneers
Programmed Machine

Precision and repeatability dominate: production, insurance, mass services.

Professional Assembly

Expert autonomy dominates: hospitals, universities, orchestras.

Personal Enterprise

Direct leadership dominates: a new venture, small enterprise, or turnaround.

Project Pioneers

Inventive collaboration dominates: labs, films, and complex prototypes.

But when the context changes, so should your form.

It requires fluid agility.

The four organizational forms connected through fluid agility

And sustained agility requires robust foundations.

The Interlaced U forms a robust foundation beneath the organizational forms

Source: Henry Mintzberg, “Four Forms That Fit Most Organizations”, California Management Review, 2024.

Adapt deliberately. Strengthen what makes adaptation repeatable.

We facilitate a workshop that produces immediately applicable insights and practices for remote-first teams—not another transformation presentation. Your team controls the journey.

About 40 peopleMonthly practice3–6 months
Open

Map reality

Reveal work, tensions, strengths, and fragile connections together.

Practise

Choose and reteam

Use the form the context needs and strengthen the relational foundations.

Progress

Make it stick

Carry commitments, rendez-vous, and learning from one session to the next.

Built from practice,
not promises.

600registrations · 300 live

Co-organizer of Olivier Hamant’s 2026 Montréal conference on the art of lasting, with Dynamo, Niska Coop, and Céline des Ligneris.

Connected

Communities that practise

Organizer of Agile Open Montréal and facilitator of Montréal’s organizational agility community.

Customers include: Bank of Canada, Desjardins, Cascades, HEC Montréal, McGill University, RAMQ, Schneider Electric, Morgan Stanley, Intact, Canadian Blood Services, BDC, TD Insurance, Vidéotron, Astral Media, Bell Canada, Bell ExpressVu, Bell Mobility, Telus, CIBC World Markets, Innovapost, AT&T, Verizon, Canada Revenue Agency, Toronto Public Library, League Data, Deutsche Bank, Crédit Communal de Belgique, Trader Corporation / Yellow Pages, Optimum Informatique, RadialPoint, Motricity, BEA Systems / Oracle, and CMTek / Abilis Solutions.

Olivier Gourment

Olivier Gourment

Olivier has spent 30 years developing technology, coaching organizations, and helping leaders turn organizational agility into practical change.

He combines operational experience, systems thinking, and collaborative facilitation to help teams see clearly, reconfigure deliberately, and become more robust together.

What does your organization need to be ready for?

A free 45-minute conversation to clarify the context, make sense of the challenge, and decide who belongs in the room.

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