Still Moving

Deborah Rowland brings a unique combination of practical experience, original insight and ground-breaking research to the leadership of change. She has personally led change in global organisations such as BBC Worldwide, Gucci Group, PepsiCo and Shell. Across her consulting career she has pioneered two major inquiries into leading change sustainably, which have been extensively published and whose insights inform the reality of organisational transformation around the world. The story of this book now inspires the Still Moving change consulting practice. Deborah acts as a change coach to CEOs and major institutional leaders in all walks of life and is a sought after speaker, teacher, and writer in the field. She is co-author of Sustaining Change: Leadership That Works (Wiley, 2008). Deborah tends to her own inner source via regular yoga, meditation, art gazing, painting and walks in nature, in particular along the spectacular coastal paths of Southern Cornwall.

Foreword ix

Acknowledgements xiii

Moved by Stillness xvii

1 Introduction 1

2 Is Change Changing? 11

3 Still Moving – The Inner and Outer Skills 29

4 It All Starts in Mindfulness 57

5 The Power of the Systemic 79

6 Make Disturbance Your Friend 103

7 Holding the Fire 125

8 The Time for Emergence 149

9 A Tale of Still Moving and Business Transformation 173

10 Still Moving and Your Leadership 199

11 The Sense of an Ending 215

Appendix 1 Detailed Still Moving Research Methodology from Chapter 3 227

Appendix 2 Detailed Leadership Development Programme Description from Chapter 9 229

Notes 233

Bibliography and General Recommended Reading 239

Index 241