The Institute Research Foundation

The research
foundation.

Built on four decades of organisational research from the University of Michigan and the Center for Positive Organizations.

Applied inside corporations, governments, healthcare systems, universities, and executive leadership teams worldwide.

Robert E. Quinn
University of Michigan
Kim S. Cameron
University of Michigan
Center for Positive Organizations
University of Michigan
The Competing Values Framework
CVF
The Fundamental State of Leadership
Quinn
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Performance is determined not only by strategy or structure,
but by the state from which leaders lead.
Robert E. Quinn · Building the Bridge as You Walk on It
The Core Ideas Seven connected disciplines

The work draws from
seven connected disciplines.

The Fundamental State of Leadership
A leadership state associated with deep behavioural change and elevated organisational performance.
The Competing Values Framework
The most widely used organisational culture diagnostic in the world.
Positive Organisational Scholarship
Research into extraordinary organisational performance and sustained cultural transformation.
Positive Deviance
Identifying exceptional performance already present inside the system, and amplifying it.
The Reflected Best Self
A strengths-based methodology revealing leadership identity through the perceptions of others.
Organisational Behavioural Science
The applied study of how groups think, decide, and act.
Executive Coaching Psychology
Evidence-based coaching grounded in developmental psychology and organisational transformation.
The Synthesis

The McFarlane
Paradigm.

Most organisational change works at the level of behaviour.

The Institute works at the level beneath it.

Values. Story. Core belief.

The internal architecture from which leadership, culture, and behaviour emerge.

Change the architecture and behaviour follows.

The McFarlane Paradigm synthesises organisational science, identity-based change, executive coaching, behavioural systems thinking, and twenty-five years of applied transformation work.

The Applied Work

The work moves
simultaneously through:

Research & Delivery Partner

Shawn Quinn

Lift Consulting · University of Michigan

Shawn Quinn leads Lift Consulting — the organisational development firm co-founded with Professor Robert Quinn at the University of Michigan.

For more than two decades his work has applied Positive Organizational Scholarship, executive development, and deep systems transformation inside organisations undergoing significant change.

The Difference

Most organisations try to improve performance through
strategy, systems, and process.

The Institute works beneath them:

Leadership state. Belief. Meaning. Behaviour. Culture.

Because the conditions leaders create determine the performance organisations sustain.

Every engagement begins
the same way.

One conversation begins the work.

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