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WELCOME
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Greenspring specialises in guiding leadership teams that need to respond to deep change.
we’re here to help.
Our approach blends advisory services, team facilitation and coaching.
Here is how we can help you:
- Stimulating courageous conversations to talk about what really matters and what stands in the way of strategy design and execution
- Managing resistance that comes with change, beginning with our own attitudes and behaviours
- Exploring new ways of collaborating across silos and beyond hierarchical structures, leveraging the power of the informal organisation where the conventional org chart falls short
- Developing high performance and accountable leadership, specially when there are no easy answers
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SERVICES
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ABOUT
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Greenspring was founded by
CHRISTOPHER BOCKMANN
With a French-Norwegian multi-cultural background, Christopher brings over 10 years experience as a team coach. His career has been a journey through various roles in organisational and executive development.
This journey has sharpened his curiosity and ability to sense and adapt to different environments, skills he leverages in every project he undertakes.
Christopher's expertise lies in navigating the complexities of global organisations and distributed leadership teams, drawing on his consulting and coaching experience.
He has dedicated over 15 years to facilitating post-merger integrations for leading global law firms, Clifford Chance and Linklaters. He started his career supporting the EU's enlargement efforts with the European Commission in the 1990s.
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Christopher holds an Executive Masters in Organizational Psychology and Coaching from INSEAD, France, and a degree in Political Sciences from Cambridge University, UK.
He has published on various aspects of leadership including transitions, collaboration and group decision-making and is a regular speaker at conferences (see « news » for more details).
Fluent in French, English, Spanish, and Norwegian, he bridges cultural divides in his work.
Beyond his professional activity, Christopher is committed to supporting women entrepreneurs through his pro bono work with the Cartier Woman’s Initiative Awards.
Greenspring teams up with
a diverse international team of coaches and consultants with whom Christopher shares a long-standing professional relationship with. The unique composition of these team who share a common mindset and methodology is carefully chosen to align with the specific needs of each client’s corporate culture and change initiatives.
Christopher regularly coaches on INSEAD's executive programmes and is an associate partner at the Kets de Vries Institute (KDVI).
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NEWS & PUBLICATIONS
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- Have traditional meetings reached their expiry date?— Publications
Research shows that remote working has led to meeting inflation, beyond the good advice to make meetings more efficient, we may need to question why we need to be in the meeting! Find out more (link)
Continuer la lecture → - Just imagine entering 2021 with the same state of mind as when we start a new job!— Publications
2021 FRESH MINDSET – rediscovering that same energy and find out more on what it takes in this article (link)
Continuer la lecture → - The tipping point in a change process: from « I have to » to « I want to »— Talks/Conferences
Virtual talk, with Positive Leadership Prof Noémie Le Pertel to top 300 managers at European Central Bank on what it takes to become an actor of change as its reorganises its Supervision arm (link).
Continuer la lecture → - Crisis leadership #4— Publications
ADAPTING TO POST-COVID WORLD – how can executives prepare a re-entry strategy in a context when so much has changed externally yet so much is still the same inside in the company? (link to article).
Continuer la lecture → - Crisis leadership #3— Publications
ONE TEAM IN ADVERSITY? – Over the last weeks I had conversations with a few clients about how these “out of the ordinary” times generate extra-ordinary team solidarity. What is behind that solidarity, how to maintain it once the imperative of acting as “one team” may be fading? (link to article).
Continuer la lecture → - Crisis Leadership #2— Publications
SURVIVAL & RESILIENCE – how our minds plays tricks on us and influence our behaviours as much as the external environment. More from survival experts in this second brief series (link to article).
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