Find your next (best) step toward growth and sustainability.
IntoWisdom Group guides individuals and organizations toward their next best step by designing and delivering learning experiences and practical resources that build clarity, capability, connection, and action.
- Leadership Development
- Professional Development
- Organizational Development
- Advising & Coaching
- Facilitation
- Workshops & Programs
Sometimes the next step isn’t obvious.
Organizations and people often know something needs to change without knowing exactly what to do next.
Maybe you’re dealing with:
- A leadership challenge
- A team that isn’t working well together
- A difficult conversation
- A new organizational direction
- Training that isn’t translating into practice
- A culture that no longer supports the work
- Too many possibilities and no clear path forward
IntoWisdom helps make the path clearer.
How we help you take the next step
We guide individuals and organizations toward their next best step through six interconnected areas of work.
Who we work with
- Executive leaders
- Leadership teams
- HR and people leaders
- Nonprofit leaders
- Trainers and learning professionals
- Facilitators
- Growing organizations
- Managers and professionals
IntoWisdom Group works with organizations and professionals [across North America] through virtual, hybrid and in-person engagements.
Leadership Development
Build the judgment, relationships and practical capabilities leaders need to lead well.
Professional Development
Help people at every level continue learning, growing and contributing.
Organizational Development
Work with organizations to strengthen culture, systems, relationships and the way work gets done.
Advising & Coaching
Thoughtful guidance and coaching for leaders and professionals facing important decisions, challenges and transitions.
Facilitation
Help groups have productive conversations, make decisions, solve problems and move toward action.
Workshops & Programs
Practical learning experiences around leadership, creativity, communication, quality thinking and other organizational needs.
The IntoWisdom perspective
Organizations are living ecosystems.
Organizations aren’t machines. They are made up of people, relationships, structures, cultures, patterns and environments that continually affect one another.
When one part changes, other parts respond. That’s why IntoWisdom looks at the whole system.
Rather than applying a solution in isolation, we help people understand what’s happening, see the connections, and identify practical places where change can begin.
From insight to action
IntoWisdom’s work is designed to help people move beyond ideas toward meaningful action. We don’t arrive with a prepackaged solution; we work it out with you.
- Understand Clarify what’s happening and what’s really at stake.
- Define Success Agree on what a good outcome looks like and how you’ll recognize it.
- Explore Consider perspectives, possibilities and connections.
- Decide Identify the next best step.
- Act Put the decision into practice.
- Learn Reflect on what happened and determine what comes next.
What you learn becomes the starting point for the next round of understanding, so the work continues as a cycle rather than ending at a single answer.
Meet your guide
John Losey
Founder, IntoWisdom Group
For more than 30 years, John Losey has helped leaders, teams and organizations navigate challenges, develop people and turn ideas into practical action.
John approaches the work as an organizational ecologist. He sees organizations as managed ecosystems rather than machines, and pays attention to the conditions that help people, teams and organizations grow and function well.
Ideas that shape the work
IntoWisdom isn’t just a collection of services. It has a body of ideas, frameworks and practices that inform the work.
Organizations as Ecosystems
A different way to understand organizations, change and sustainability: tending the conditions in which people and work can grow, rather than operating a machine.
Leadership
Practical thinking about how people lead, relate and make decisions.
Facilitation
Ideas and practices for helping people work together more effectively.
Creativity & Innovation
Ways of helping people see possibilities and develop useful solutions.
Useful things to explore
Articles, tools, videos, podcasts and free resources. They’re meant to be useful on their own, whether or not you ever work with us.
Article
How do you know when a team is ready for a difficult conversation?
Signs to look for, and what to put in place first.
Tool
A practical framework for thinking through your next step
A short worksheet for sorting what you know, what you need, and what to try.
Video and podcast
A conversation about leadership, facilitation and organizational life
John Losey on what helps groups move from talk to action.
A separate community
The Facilitators’ Guild
A community and framework for people who make work easier.
The Facilitators’ Guild brings facilitators together around a shared understanding of the competencies, practices and possibilities of facilitation.
The Guild is its own initiative. It is separate from the facilitation services IntoWisdom provides to clients.
The IntoWisdom Store
Learn. Use. Read. Participate.
Want to learn on your own? Explore courses, workshops, books, tools and workbooks designed to help you take the next step.