Who we are

For the last 20 years, our work has been coaching people, private and corporate, in situations that are often conflicted, with significant issues of either unrealized potential or underperformance and often a feeling of stuckness or frustration among those involved.

During our journey, we have been inside the rabbit hole of various schools of thought, learned from different teachers, and explored many theories. We’ve thoroughly experienced a range of approaches related to change, transformation, and complexity. Some of these include Integral Theory, Coach Training, Consciousness Training, Philosophy, Theology, Theory U, Holacracy, Adult Development Theory and Complexity Theory. While each of these approaches holds some valuable insights, some more than others, the truth each of them holds is necessarily partial. We have wrestled with these approaches and we have mostly been able to navigate past the blindspots and shallows of different schools of thought and teachings, and have, with some bruises, worked out, what works and what doesn’t work. It has made us who we are.

we are:

Anne Caspari

My speciality is transformational processes in all contexts, personal and organizational, long before it was called change management. Having studied ecology in the past, I can rely on a solid body of knowledge of how complex adaptive systems work and what tends to get in the way of self-organizing processes. I started adding humans to the equation around 20 years ago. Coaching, leadership development and transformational change have since become my main occupation. Getting exposed to complexity-thinking and sense-making years ago was a natural fit for me and my practice. I am a coactive coach, and university lecturer, and work as faculty for the Cynefin Company.

Johann Entz-von Zerssen & Anne Caspari

I understand my role to be the assistant to my clients and customers to step into the space of their ‘being’ wholeheartedly. Over the past 20 years, I have come to understand how difficult and yet possible change for individuals and teams is once awareness and a willingness to address these challenges have surfaced. I help my clients find a healthy balance between doing and being in the way they make decisions, overcoming learned resistance and, integrating ‘immunities to change’.I am a professional certified coach (PCC) and work as faculty for coach training for the Coactive Training Institute (CTI). Anne and I both operate from Germany.

Tomáš Hančil

I am a philosopher turned coach. I support people and organisations in their growth and development mainly through transformative and developmental coaching. My thinking is grounded in evolutionary biology and developmental psychology. In the past 20 years, I have trained leaders and supported their personal development both in small and large organisations. In the more recent past, I have focussed on group dynamic and complexity thinking that is proving to provide the most needed competitive edge for my clients. I am based in Prague, Czech Republic.

We are certified in the use of the Leadership Circle Profile TLC; Lectica’s Decision Making Assessment LDMA, and the SenseMaker-Software and are part of the 5 people worldwide to conduct the Cynefin Base Camp courses for the Cynefin Company (Cognitive Edge).

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Complexity Partners is a brand of EZC.Partners