Threshold Experience

Live development experience for change leaders and OD professionals.

Stop being pulled into the system’s noise - start working with greater clarity, steadiness and systemic impact.

Change not gaining traction?

Lead more transformative conversations between OD/HR and the business.

Conversations hosted in the right way supports adoption of new structures, processes and technologies. Change becomes easier.

Strengthen your presence

Develop your inner stance: how you stay clear, grounded and available when the system becomes anxious, defensive or noisy.

Read the system

See how your leadership, culture, structure, relationships, management practices and energy interact to drive performance.

Grow in community

Belong to a learning community who share in this development journey to grow personal impact and organisational effectiveness.

Inner steadiness x systemic insight = greater impact.

Develop the presence to stay centred while learning to read the hidden patterns shaping your organisation. Discover where energy flows, where it becomes blocked, and where your attention can help unlock meaningful change.

NHS

Sometimes we're lucky enough to stumble across something truly inspiring. A liberating experience that unlocks energy within you and within the system you operate in.

Anna D

Pharmaceutical

Threshold helped me reconnect with something we often lose touch with in business: the corporate soul and the individual, personal soul. That, I think, is where the magic is. I experienced your lovely generosity of soul. That was what I and others needed - and that is what’s different.

Stuart C

NHS

I usually don’t usually like online programmes, but I actually really enjoyed this one. It was very polished and well designed, but it didn’t feel manufactured or controlled. It felt meaningful.

Agi K

What people say about this programme.

Exec Coach

Engaging, supportive and thought-provoking. It provided a good balance of theory, discussion and practical application. I came away with valuable insights that I can use in both my professional and personal development.

Alex A

IT Leadership

Thank you for a really engaging and enjoyable programme. My experience of what Natalie and John have created here is overwhelmingly positive.

Will W

NHS

Such a fantastic group of like-minded professionals.
Lots of thoughtful content and the opportunity to learn through engaging discussions, practice and shared experiences.

Emma M

Who is this course designed for?

Contact us for NHS and Government offers

What can I expect?

How is the journey structured?

The OD Threshold Experience is built around four linked modules.

Each session helps you to develop a different kind of orientation: to yourself, to the patterns that pull you in, to the wider system, and finally to the real interventions you might make.

Module 1: Knowing Yourself in the System
Recognise how your own stance, identity, assumptions and reactions shape the way you relate to and influence organisational systems.

Discover and own how your state of presence is a key part of the intervention.

September 22nd 12:00-14:00 BST

Module 2: Mastering the Energy Lens
Explore the power of our reinterpretation of the Burke-Litwin model. See beyond symptoms to transform deeper patterns in leadership, culture, relationships, structure and performance.

Start noticing where pressure, trust, leadership, culture, structure and performance interact and identify where energy may be blocked, leaking or misdirected.

September 23rd 12:00-14:00 BST

Module 3: Becoming an Energy Catalyst
Understand the role of energy catalyst and bring more presence and power to holding spaces that enhance a leader's thinking and being.

You will explore your own story, patterns and default moves within the system. We'll be using reflective exercises and self-regulation practices to strengthen your capacity to stay clear, grounded and useful when the system becomes anxious or stuck.

September 30th 2:00-14:00 BST

Module 4: Belonging to a community of practice
You will explore the practices, relationships and rituals that sustain this work over time, cultivating social 'wells' of learning, wisdom and connection that nourish and sustain practitioners.

This final session helps you to integrate what you have learned and to consider how you will continue developing your OD practice beyond this foundation experience.

October 1st 12:00-14:00 BST

1:1 Coaching
A coaching session is included in your programme to help you on your way. Once you have reflected on the nature of your system and how to best apply what you have learned, you will receive a 30-minute 1:1 session to help you formulate the next key steps to elevating your system and to grow your impact within it.

Dates for your diary

Your hosts

Natalie Banks

Natalie is a transformation and organisational design specialist with 30 years’ experience helping leaders shape culture, capability and lasting change. She brings whole-system experience across operating models, leadership, culture and team development, with a strong global track record.

John Dickson

John coaches leaders, teams and OD practitioners to stay steady and notice what is really happening - within themselves, between people and across the wider system. His work brings together global commercial experience, systemic insight and deep psychotherapeutic practice.

Become a calmer presence in a more complex world.

When organisations become anxious or fragmented, it is easy to become absorbed by the pressure around us.

Threshold helps you strengthen your own presence while learning to read the living system more skilfully.

Instead of reacting to symptoms, you begin to recognise the patterns beneath them and to intervene where meaningful change can begin.

Join this systemic leadership journey

Crossing the Threshold is only the beginning

Threshold helps you learn to see.
Beyond the Threshold is where that awareness matures into practice, as you continue becoming the instrument of systemic change.

Beyond the Threshold