Edge of Possible: Change, Transformation & Social Impact Consultancy
Expand Your Horizons: Unleash Your Potential as a Leader of Change.
Empowering you to transform your work with creativity and focus, creating change that flows.
No commitment. Let's explore what we can achieve together.
WhY The Edge of Possible?
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
(Albert Einstein)
Develop Competitive Advantage
Operate at the edge to become industry leaders, differentiate yourself, gain funding, and offer unique value propositions.
Boost Your Innovation & Problem Solving
Unlock new solutions and create and test new paths to overcome challenges.
Make a Cultural & Social Impact
Adapt and address social issues to transform cultural norms and behaviours.
Harness Inspiration and Motivation
Learn and grow. Seeing others push boundaries inspires others to do the same, creating a wave of progress.
Nuture Growth and Resilience
Foster skill development and build resilience, to adapt to an ever-changing increasingly complex world.
Increase Collaboration and Teamwork
Learning development inspiring people both internally and externally towards a shared identity and purpose.
What is the Edge of Possible?
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams”
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
The Edge of Possible represents the best of what we can achieve, the peak of our capabilities.
It’s a realm of discovery where the boundaries of what’s achievable are ever expanding.
When we don’t push the Edges of Possible, those edges reduce and squeeze us in.
As the world constantly changes, our knowledge and skills risk becoming redundant.
Unfortunately, it’s human nature to retreat into our niche where certainty reigns supreme. It is the kingdom of the obvious.
A zone of fear surrounds this safe comfortable niche, restricting our potential.
Good leadership and learning demand that we confront our fears. Supporting people to explore the undiscovered territories of the Edge of Possible.
By expanding our Edge of Possible we increase our capability. Making what was once thought of as impossible into an everyday reality.
So You want to Create Change, but Making IT Happen Is not Easy:
People are resistant to change.
You need to get funding and investment.
You are constantly fixing problems.
You never have enough time.
People just don't care enough.
You don't have enough resources.
The benefits are hard to measure.
It's hard to get your work noticed.
“People don’t resist change. They resist being changed”
(Peter Senge)
70% of change projects fail (McKinsey). Research suggests that (67%) 2/3rds of projects fail because of people issues.
Yet our leadership change processes haven’t changed. Too often we are trying to get people to change to fit a process, rather than create processes that fit people.
The world is the way it is for a reason. The current way of doing things is a result of everyone’s history. Trying to make a change in an environment that does not want to change, is an uphill task.
Not for a lack of effort, nor hard work, good ideas, passion or the amount of planning, but because our world is a co-creation of the environment and everyone in it.
Be kind to yourself; work with the world, not against it. Let’s make change that flows with people, not against them.
Start Your Journey to The Edge OF Possible
“If you work at the edge of knowing, then the impossible becomes possible”
(John-Paul Crofton)
Do you face a problem that you're eager to overcome?
Are you ready to make a transformational change, but unsure where to start?
I’m John-Paul, your personal guide to the Edge of Possible.
Let’s journey together, overcome your challenges, and unleash your potential to lead change for a better world.
Let me give you the tools and techniques to build on your unique strengths and be the best you can be through personalised tailored support.
Let’s talk. Book a free 30 minute chat.
Why Talk?
This is your opportunity to explore your unique challenges and aspirations.
Together, we’ll uncover if and how I can help you on your journey towards impactful change. It’s a chance to discuss your Edge of Possible and envision how you can expand it, creating change that flows.
Get Started With A CoNsultation
Your Free Consulation
Agree How We Can Best Work Together.
Start Working to Make Your Ideas Grow.
Services
Consultancy
Tailoured support to overcome problems and build on your unique strengths.
- Vision to impact: Guiding you from creating innovative ideas to real world change, with strategies to overcome challenges and build momentum.
- Grow and Scale Effectively: Secure funding and better engage stakeholders overcome problems and amplify impact, adapting to community needs.
- Measure and Enhance Performance: Optimise resource use for efficiency, foster continuous learning, and evaluate your impact, generating deep insights.
Personal Coaching
Unleashing your potential as a leader for change.
- Empower your leadership skills. Harness your unique strengths, discover new ways of thinking and find joy in leading transformative change.
- Master Decision-Making: Develop insight and situational awareness, building your confidence in responding to an ever changing world.
- Inspire and Influence: Elevate your impact. Boost your ability to inspire and motivate others towards goals.
Training
Gain tools and knowledge to help you and your team thrive and deliver impact
- Customised training to the specific needs of your team right now.
- Impact & efficiency: Sharpen the effectiveness of your team in making the best use of what you have.
- Communication & Collaboration: Learn to communicate persuasively and clearly.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Optimise the flow of information through your team for informed, impactful decisions.
- Adaptable Problem Solving: Develop flexible problem solving skills.
How The Edge Of Possible Can Help Turn Your Vision to Reality
Tailored Strategies for Real-World Challenges
Get custom solutions that fit your unique needs, goals and strengths.
Applied Science
We look at the (many) flaws and assumptions of traditional change management practice and apply scientific solutions.
All In One & End to End Support
From dreaming big to making a real difference, we’ve got every step covered in helping you make your change a reality.
Smart, Effective Decisions
Use the power of information and science to do more with what you have.
Connection Through Communication
Celebrate and share your success and build your community.
Boost Your Leadership Skills
Gain confidence and learn to inspire others, even in tough times.
Grow and Adapt with Confidence
Recognise and respond to change to stay ahead of the game in a fast changing world.
Free advice, no commitment, let’s see how we can work together.
Create Flows of Change:
“The pessimist complains about the wind;
the optimist expects it to change;
the realist adjusts the sails.”
(John Arthur Ward)
Boost Engagement
Inspires & motivates participants, fostering a deeper level of involvement and sustained effort throughout the change process
Continuously Learn and Adapt
Creates a continuous feedback look ensures the change process remains dynamic and adaptable, based on new insights and challenges.
Efficient Progression
Reduces effort between steps, maintaining momentum.
Empowered Participation
Provides timely information and builds supportive networks, enhancing decision-making and camaraderie.
Reduced Resistance
Actively reduces fear and uncertainty, creating a positive environment for change.
Create New paths of Social Change By ExpanDing yOur Edge Of Possible:
Discover Your Path to Social Impact
It’s easy to have ideas. It’s hard to make change happen. At the Edge of Possible I provide insight knowledge and expertise to guide you on your journey at every stage.
I have used my knowledge and experience from creating social and cultural change to create and refine the journey to social impact.
Change is all about people, and each step of the journey increases the edge of possibility for the following stages. Meaning as you progress your journey more and more possibilities open up.
I am here to support you at every step of the way, or if you need, provide dedicated expertise to help you when you need, at just the point in the journey you want help.
The goal is to help you to explore how best to use your skills, knowledge and passion increasing your possibilities to create social change. Grow through gaining investment and partnership and effectively learn adapt grow and flourish through making a real difference.
Creating social change is not an easy or predictable journey and I will help you find your path up the mountain whilst playing to your strengths and building a strong team to support. Making sure you navigate the pitfalls and don’t get stuck or lost. Giving you the tools and knowledge to equip you for your journey of transformation.
Transforming Your Change Management with the Edge of Possible
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
Wayne W. Dyer
The Heart of Change Framework
The Heart of Change Framework is used to gain fresh insights diagnose problems and identify solutions as you expand your edge of possible. I have developed this tool based on years of day to day experience managing change and transformation. This model has many hidden depths empowering you to master the flow and rhythm of your change. Change projects naturally drift off course, but my framework helps you keep on track and focus, in expanding your edge of possible. It’s a diagnostic tool that helps you see fresh perspectives far beyond the usual KPIs. Opening up new paths and new solutions for effective change management.
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Environment: Adapt to external influences on your project.
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Motivation: Understand what drives your team and stakeholders.
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Structure: Establish processes for consistent success.
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Adaptation: Flexibly respond and empower people to keep things on track.
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Relationships: Enhance collaboration and identify influencers.
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The Pulse of Change: Harmonise the rhythm and flow of your project.
By integrating these elements, the Heart of Change Framework ensures a balanced approach, keeping your change management project flowing smoothly and efficiently. It’s at the core of creating a flow of change, revolutionising how you manage transformations.
The Edge of Possible Approach
“The best way to predict the future is to create it”
(Jan Owen)
To create impact, change and transformation you need to be different and not think and act the same as everyone else. Edge of Possible is about helping you create change that flows from your unique knowledge and strengths.
The Edge of Possible approach combines adaption and flow: Leading new paths of transformation through focused creativity. Implemented into a flow of change: connecting silos of expertise and aligning the change making process, from strategy development to funding, implementation, and meaningful communication.
At the Edge of Possible you can build on the unique strengths of you, your teams and communities. Empowering you to think and act distinctively, using your knowledge and skills to forge your path where you create change that matters to you.
The Edge of Possible approach has been created utilising tools & insights from physics, complexity science, psychology, network science, ecology, network and systems theories, enables you to craft your own strategies for change. The focus is to equip change makers with tailored insights and scientific rigor, supporting your journey towards making an impact.
At Edge of Possible, the focus is on empowering your transformation, leveraging your unique strengths to make a lasting impact and be the difference that makes a difference
Get started on your journey of transformation: Book a free 30 min discovery call.
If we choose to work together we can meet in person, if you are based in Brighton, London or the South-East.
Free advice, no commitment, let’s see how we can work together.
What Is the ScieNce Behind The Edge of Possible?
Complexity Science
The Cynefin Framework, Estuarine mapping – Dave’ Snowdens work
Complex Systems Science – Sante Fe Institute.
Adaptive Spaces – Mary Uhl Bien
Wardley Mapping – Simon Wardley
Ecology
Fitness Landscapes – Sewall Wright
Ecological Niche – Roswell Hill Johnson
Adjacent Possible – Stuart Kauffman
Mathematics
Power Law Distributions – Pareto
Dynamic Systems Theory – Edward Lorenz
Probability Space – Andrey Kolmogrov
No Free Lunch Theorem – Walpert and Macready
Theory of Constraints – Eliyahu Goldratt
Psychology
Cognitive Bias – Tversky & Kahneman
Active Inference (Free Energy Principle) – Karl Friston
System 1 and System 2 Thinking – Daniel Kahneman
Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory – Lev Vygotsky
OODA Loop – Col John Boyd
Physics
Non-linear systems – Poincare, Lyapunov, Pol, Lorenz, Smale
Constructor Theory – Deutsch & Marletto
Entropy – Carnot & Carnot
Shannon Entropy (information Theory) – Claude Shannon
Constructal Law – Adrian Bejan
Edge of Possible Frequently Asked Questions:
What is the Edge of Possible Consultancy?
Edge of Possible Consultancy is a change and transformation consultancy that helps leaders, teams and organisations with tools, techniques and skills to create positive change through focused creativity adaption, learning and flow.
What Makes Edge of Possible Different From Other Change Management & Leadership Development Consultancy?
Whilst many consultancies have a method and a plan they want to sell you (often with names copied and pasted in). The Edge of Possible approach is that you are the expert in your people and organisation. We are here to give you and your team the tools and techniques and skills to build on your own knowledge and strengths, so that you can forge your own unique path to the edge of possible.
What is a Transformational Leader or Leader of Change?
A transformational leader inspires and motivates others, fostering innovation and teamwork. They empower individuals, challenge the status quo, and create a psychological safe and diverse environment that fosters and supports personal growth and change setting a positive role model for those they work with.
If you would like to create social and cultural change or create social impact, please read my guide for social impact leadership.
What Unique Approach Does Edge of Possible Take Towards Change & Transformation?
The Edge of Possible approach is to apply scientific insights into how people and society behave creating the conditions for continuous growth learning, and adaption to maximise the evolutionary potential of the present.
Traditional change management methods are fantastic at improving products and processes, but sadly consistently fail at changing people. They replace science with control and wishful thinking.
People are not robots to be programmed or to follow orders mindlessly. Furthermore, the future is not predictable so many ‘as is’ – ‘to be’ plans don’t work, as the future is never what we expect. This is why we apply scientific insights to create momentum and flow for changing people evolving change through learning to break through the edge of possible.
Who Can Benefit From Edge of Possible's Services?
Leaders, organisations teams and communities can benefit through gaining new tools techniques and skills for learning adaption and social and cultural change. We foster growth, resilience, and effective collaboration towards a shared purpose and looking to make a bigger difference in the world.
Do You Provide Consultancy Services Beyond Brighton & Hove, London & The South East?
Yes firstly, I can provide support through online calls. Travel is possible further afield and I can visit you if we feel we can achieve a lot together.
Please book a discovery call and we can discuss how best we can work together.
Does Edge of Possible Also Improve Efficiency & Cost Effectiveness.
An important aspect of Edge of Possible’s work is creating an efficient and cost effective flow of change. We can analyse your data and understand the shape and flow of your spending in reality. Rather than apply some magic average we look at your organisation as it is.
Our natural focus on creativity and innovation will help you identify novel solutions and innovation and avoid the narrow ‘race to the bottom’ that is so prevalent in many organisation.
Can The Edge of Possible Provide Support For Both Individuals & Teams Within An Organisation?
Yes, Edge of Possible offers personalised consultancy, coaching and customised training tailored to the specific needs of individuals and teams. Based on your needs and goals. Tell us your problems and we will aim to give you the tools you need to overcome them.
How Does Edge of Possible Approach Cultural a Social Impact Initiatives?
The Edge of Possible addresses cultural social impact initiatives by adapting to and addressing social issues to transform cultural norms and behaviors, it focuses on creating change that aligns with community needs and fosters a positive societal impact. We help you create social projects to help you test and find new ways and scale up social impact.
Can Edge of Possible Help in Securing Funding and Investment for my Change Projects?
Yes, I have many years experience in both running application processes and applying for funds. I have a number of tools to help with creating funding proposals and can help with personalised individual support. Please read my guide to applying for funding or take the Project Funding Application Test.
Is the Niche the Edge of Possible Refers to, the Same as a Marketing or Customer Niche?
No, but it has similar origins. The niche referred to in the edge of possible directly relates to ecological niche. Your niche is your ‘nest’. The place you have comfort agency control and certainty. You niche is the routines that you typically operate within every day. We use the terminology of niche rather than comfort zone as we can then learning from ecology about niche construction and adaption.
The fundamental difference is that in marketing you cannot change your customer’s niche. In this science based understanding of niche, it can be possible when the conditions are right.
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