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.
Precision and repeatability dominate: production, insurance, mass services.
Expert autonomy dominates: hospitals, universities, orchestras.
Direct leadership dominates: a new venture, small enterprise, or turnaround.
Inventive collaboration dominates: labs, films, and complex prototypes.
But when the context changes, so should your form.
It requires fluid agility.
And sustained agility requires robust foundations.
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.
Map reality
Reveal work, tensions, strengths, and fragile connections together.
Choose and reteam
Use the form the context needs and strengthen the relational foundations.
Make it stick
Carry commitments, rendez-vous, and learning from one session to the next.
Built from practice,
not promises.
Co-organizer of Olivier Hamant’s 2026 Montréal conference on the art of lasting, with Dynamo, Niska Coop, and Céline des Ligneris.
Beyond agile autopilot
Co-author of Gearing Up Towards Organizational Agility?
Read the paper Agilité, robustesse et IA — piloter les organisations dans l’incertitude © 2026 Olivier Gourment et ACADYSCommunities 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 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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