PACTS Personal and Cultural Transformations Inc.

The History: Foundational principles that we used in building our offering

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Our values assist us and our clients in differentiating our activities and how we create sustainable wealth. Through their application, clients gain new insights, innovation and agility and undergo a transformation that is real.

Where attention goes, energy flows:

Our actions reflect what is top of mind. To achieve new outcomes, we need to shift our own and others’ attention and keep it on new realities. When we act within this new attention, we gain new insight and craft new outcomes. The trick is to find out where our attention is!

Build on Strengths, Minimize Weaknesses:

Effective people know about optimum energy management. It takes more energy and resources to fix weaknesses, than what it is to build on strengths. We do not ignore weaknesses, but find smart ways to minimize these.

Originality - Be your talk:

Original expression enriches your expression of who you already are – not to copy other role models and ideas, but to boldly show us all of the richness of your unique life. We encourage others to deliberately put on different parts of their personalities and playfully start exploring the richness of expressing different facets of who they are.

Use imagination to sculpt PossibilitySpace:

Our gift of imagination, focused on new possibilities, provides unexpected rich new creativity. Without imagination, there can be no true innovation. We celebrate the space between "Black: and "White", Either and Or. We know that in-between the Absolutes, is the Realm of PossibilitySpace. We apply skillful means to sculpt in this space of limitless potential.

Execute with Elegance:

Elegance is the attribute of being unusually effective and simple. Genius is not only about generating creativity, but the discipline to master the art of elegant execution to express it. Elegant solutions may solve multiple problems at once, especially problems not thought to be interrelated. Execution can be visual, decorative and narrative, even within the business world.

Enjoy the Journey:

Play makes us smarter, more happy and less stressed. If we do not enjoy what we do each day, we become miserable . We have the capacity to reframe our life’s journey and have a playful, creative attitude. Taking ourselves and our ideas too seriously leads to intolerance of others and their world, harshness to ourselves and ultimately a dull experience for our clients. Joy is a strength.

The History: A PACTS Journey towards Strategy Execution philosophy and approach

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Like any organization, PACTS evolved over the past few years. One of our original thought pieces considered the journey that leader need to take to implement their ideas successfully.

Thought Leadership:
With constant new information generation within an uncertain environment, previous expertise and knowledge become obsolete fast. We assisted business leaders to stimulate thought leadership through our network of experts, some who work outside the traditional business context.

Design Mastery
Leaders have to be able to translate their vision into focused strategic intent, which has to be expanded into clear strategic objectives, as well as the scope for strategy (who has to deliver, areas of execution and responsibility, portfolio). Design mastery employs not only analytical thinking processes, but requires whole brain thinking, combining logical, rational thinking processes with intuitive pattern sensing.

Deployment mastery:
Deployment is the "missing link" in strategy execution. Through effective deployment, strategic intent is translated into meaningful context at the right levels of work, providing for simultaneous organizational structuring, communication and change management. Roles and responsibilities are clarified, and organizational resources are perfectedly aligned towards achieving strategic objectives. Social collaboraton technology platforms create transparency and opportunities to collaborate across and outside organizational borders.

Execution mastery:
Excution failure is a high risk faced by any executive team. This statement is born from comprehensive research that execution is still on the top of CEO's minds, in particular considering that, globally, 40% of strategy is lost through ineffective implementation. It is also a fact that business schools and traditional leadership development programs do not effectivelyteach these skills as they are developed through years of experience.

We cultivate a mindset and develop techniques based on Waves of Impact, which ensure agility and delivery of high impact, visible deliverables to build individual and organizational confidence and credibility. Our approach originates in deep turnaround experience and the Transitions Leadership approaches from Harvard Business School.

Personal and Cultural Transformations

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Our passion is personal and cultural transformations that are real. When we decided on the name of our company more than four years ago, we loved the idea of the play of words, a concept that is carried through in all our offerings. Manie is the clever wordsmith in our company, creatively combining letters and images to create new memes.

PACTS could therefore mean a "PACT (contract) with yourself, or a PACT with others (PACTS).
Playing on this theme, we are therefore communicating through our company name that we made a contract with each other and our world to make a tangible difference in the world through combining different disciplines and stimulate new generation thinking and doing.