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Michael K Spayd Jr, Founder & Principal
Michael has been a pioneer thought leader in organizational and personal transformation for more than 25 years. In the last few years his focus has evolved to more fully align with his internal compass, which at heart might be summed up by the term corporate mystic, with a focus on systemic transformation.
For many years he studied embodied systemic mapping — both teaching it and practicing it — and it has now become his primary focus. Michael has been teaching and articulating a new field that integrates systemic constellations, HSD complexity theory, and an ordinary shamanic worldview. The name that emerged for this new integration is Systemic Alchemy. This represents a major shift into the unseen forces at work in systems of all kinds, from families to businesses to societies to the land on which we live.
Michael is renowned as a transformational teacher and leader, with a near-magic ability to facilitate deeply compelling and transformational learning environments. He now leads a cohort for systemically-informed coaches and facilitators called The Systemic Way.
Michael’s life work has been prolific, co-founding the Agile Coaching Institute (2010), founding Trans4mation (2016), and most recently The Collective Edge (2020). He has taught, coached and mentored many thousand coaches & transformational leaders. He is the originator and co-author of the book Agile Transformation, bringing the Integral approach to a mainstream audience.
His teacher lineage in the systemic world includes Elmar Dornberger, Daan Van Kampenhout, Jane Peterson, Michael Reddy, Dan Cohen & Emily Blefeld, Cecilio Fernandez Regojo, and Jan Jacob Stam.
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Origins of Integral Sensemaking & Adaptive Action
Spayd’s book first applied Integral metatheory to organizational transformations. Since it's publication, Spayd and collaborators (Randolf Speigner & Glenda Eoyang) have developed the Integral Sensemaking & Adaptive Action method for working with such transformations, helping transformational leaders become instruments of change. The next task is to integrate the deep understanding of systemic alchemy.
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Meet the Faculty
Systemic Alchemy
Organizational Transformation
Complex Systems Change
