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Michael Johnstone

SUBVERSION AS LEADERSHIP

Guerrilla Girls, Benvenuti alla biennale femminista! (from the series "Guerrilla Girls Talk Back: Portfolio 2"), 2005; Lithographic...

POKING A STICK INTO A PREVAILING PARADIGM- AT THE HEART OF LEADERSHIP

Michael Johnstone

POKING A STICK INTO A PREVAILING PARADIGM- AT THE HEART OF LEADERSHIP

The research we undertook for our new book “Provocation as Leadership” has shown that real, adaptive, leadership always involves...

Turbulent times call for brave new leadership.

Maxime Fern & Michael Johnstone

Turbulent times call for brave new leadership.

Commentary on our new book Provocation as Leadership, in the Australian Financial Review.

Maxime Fern & Michael Johnstone

Risks of challenging the status quo

Provocation is also a powerful and necessary leadership tool for doing good

Maxime Fern & Michael Johnstone

Provocation is also a powerful and necessary leadership tool for doing good

Maxime Fern & Michael Johnstone

Turbulent times call for brave new leadership

Michael Johnstone

High impact leadership development

Vantage Point are designers and facilitators of high impact leadership development programs for senior executives.

Helen Trinca

A leadership tool that shakes workers out of their comfort zone

Maxime Fern & Michael Johnstone

Challenge prevailing thinking

Following the Global Financial Crisis in 2008-09, we worked with the executive team of an essential public sector agency.

Maxime Fern & Michael Johnstone

Uncover the tensions in a team

A professional services firm trying to rebalance their relationship with a major client.

Maxime Fern & Michael Johnstone

Overcoming the threshold of resistance

The inclusion of occasional provocative can increase the chances that your ideas will jump over the resistance threshold.

Maxime Fern & Michael Johnstone

An affair with the status quo

Consulting to a college to improve collaboration between departments and foster an environment of trust and open exchange.

Using shock and uncertainty to drive change

Maxime Fern & Michael Johnstone

Using shock and uncertainty to drive change

Living with contradictions

Michael Johnstone

Sparking an alive conversation

The principals of Vantage Point are sought after thought leaders, who regularly share their experience.

Maxime Fern & Michael Johnstone

Helping people learn

Case in Point as an experiential approach.

Maxime Fern & Michael Johnstone

Helping people learn (part 2)

How giving up control can create more power.

Michael Johnstone

Why change is so hard

Why change is so hard: How maturity and ripeness are necessary

Leadership, courage and learning during a crisis

Maxime Fern & Michael Johnstone

Leadership, courage and learning during a crisis

Leadership, courage and learning during a crisis: Poor behaviour or culture?

Maxime Fern & Michael Johnstone

Adaptation is both fast and slow

Lessons from family life during the Covid-19 world

Michael Johnstone

Innovation Under Pressure

The Covid19 environment is providing many opportunities to reexamine existing practices and behaviour.

Working with us

Becoming an adaptive organisation means going to the heart of the issues, stepping back to build perspective, taking a systems approach, and being clear on what to take forward into your future and what to let go. We work alongside you to identify, lead and respond to change, and find purpose and direction

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Provocation as Leadership

A Roadmap for Adaption and Change

Our new book is a blueprint for people who want to ignite change and help their organisations, group, or community break through to a better future – people who know instinctively that provocation is required.

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