Organisational Development

Nurturing Organisations That Can Renew, Adapt, and Flourish

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At Viridus, a resilient organisation is more than its strategy, structure, or systems. It’s also the living web of relationships, purpose, and culture. Our Organisational Development (OD) work helps organisations renew from within — building leadership, clarity, trust, and capability so that organisations and their work thrive sustainably.

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Why Organisational Development Matters

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Organisations have to navigate complex social and economic systems. They have to respond to broader external and environmental challenges while, at the same time, building cohesive, responsive, and sustainable organisations internally. The internal challenges that they face are: 

• Misaligned roles, unclear processes, or power dynamics that erode morale.

• Leadership siloes; low distributed leadership, over-dependence on a few individuals.

• Change fatigue: people are asked to do more without being supported with clarity or capacity.

• Little space for reflection, experimentation, or collaborative design — making organisations fragile in dealing with complexity.

At Viridus we believe that these challenges are opportunities for redesigning organizations to achieve their purpose while enabling people to work at their full potential.

 

Our Approach

 

We design OD as a journey, not a one-off event. Through immersive, experiential, and reflective processes, we help organisations:

• Diagnose their real challenges: culture, structure, leadership, process.

• .Design change collaboratively: engaging leaders, staff, and even stakeholders to ensure ownership.

• Build leadership at all levels: not just senior leadership, but distributed agency across people.

• Foster safe, inclusive spaces: for dialogue, ideation, experimentation — where people feel. psychologically safe to speak and try.

• Reflect, adapt, and sustain: seeing what works, modifying what doesn’t, so change sticks.

 

What We Offer

 

Leadership and Organisational Design and Development Capacity-Building Workshops

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• Understanding the fundamentals of Organisational Design and Development.

• Discovering tools and frameworks for purposeful Organsiational Design and Development.

• Developing a deeper understanding and appreciation of leadership, culture, inclusivity and sustaining change

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Ongoing Learning & Support​

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• A one year fellowship program for civil society leaders to understand and practice the fundamentals of purposeful organisational design and leadership development in a supported environment.

• Online Community of Practice: webinars, peer learning, case studies, shared tools.

• Guided reflection and check-ins to integrate learning in daily work.

• OD collective.- An open space for dialogue, sharing, reflections and learnings from peer OD practioners​

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Implementation Coaching & Change Projects​

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• Hands-on design and support with experimentation of changes.

• Facilitation of cross-team collaboration to align roles, values, and strengths.

• Support in change implementation, monitoring and adapting as contexts shift.

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WorkWise Pod

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The Workwise Pod is a podcast that explores how to create more fair, empathetic, and fulfilling workplaces. Through conversations with experts and practitioners, the podcast explores the complexity of modern day work and work practices  and seeks innovative ideas to creating  flourishing, just, equitable and more sustainable work places for all.
 

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Why Organisations Partner with Us

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• Greater resilience — organisations are better able to navigate complexity, shifts, and adversity.

• Stronger leadership at depth — not just top-driven, but shared accountability, ownership.

• Improved employee engagement & commitment — people feel more seen, valued, and involved.

• Better alignment of strategy, structure, culture, and values — less friction, more flow.

• Sustainable change — not quick fixes, but transformation that endures.

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The Viridus Promise

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We accompany leaders and organisations in their change journeys. We co-create spaces and facilitate them such that people come together to share and reflect on real life challenges in an open, collaborative way. We recognise that each organisation works in their own unique contexts, both internal and external and and meaningful change requires contexually relevant solutions. Our promise is to bring together research, real-world practices, and deep compassion so that organisations become living systems: adaptive, compassionate, honest, and capable of fulfilling their purpose sustainably.