Emergenetics

I connected with our brilliant Emergenetics® Associate Crystal Vanderkolb, Director of Leadership and Culture Development at IMI, a company that recently won the top prize in the Big Company category in the St. Louis Business Journal’s Best Places to Work awards.

To learn about how they bring their culture to life and how they’ve used Emergene...

A Note to Associates

A few days later, after the room had emptied, I sat and paid attention to how we arrived and how we left Elevate.

We came in on memory. Institutional memory and lived memory — the DNA of what it has long meant to be in a room together as practitioners of Emergenetics. We reactivated it, and it moved us. That is real. Yet nostalgia only reaches the ...

You’ve probably watched this scene play out before. An executive kicks off a meeting, often saying all the “right” things about transformation and alignment. They have a strong presence and speak with clarity. Their presentation reinforces valid, important points.

And somehow the energy feels muted. Motivation and engagement remain flat. S...

Think about the last time someone told you exactly what to do and how to do it. Did it make you feel energised? Or did it make you feel more like an AI agent?

If you answered the latter, you are not alone.

That Was Exactly the Point.

The introductions went around the table.

A physicist. A quantum engineer. A biotech researcher. An editor at an academic journal. Someone whose title I couldn’t make out on first reading, let alone understand, so I looked it up surreptitiously under the table on my phone. And then: me.

With each introduction, I felt myself ge...