An Unflocked Offering
Praxis.
Priming teams to decide under pressure.
Most plans don't fail on paper.
They stall in live conversations.
The Pattern
Meetings slow down. Disagreement goes quiet. Decisions get softened or deferred.
By the time issues show up in metrics, the drift already happened in the room.
Praxis is a short, facilitated intervention that strengthens how teams operate when there is no script. When stakes are real, roles are visible, and pressure is live.
When to Use This
Praxis is useful when:
Meetings feel heavier than the work demands
The strategy is clear but decisions keep cycling
Disagreement surfaces late
New leaders are stepping into visible roles
Teams rely heavily on slides or artefacts to move conversations
The same few voices carry every meeting while others contribute only afterward
It works best when the issue isn't capability. It's the drag that shows up when people won't engage with what's actually in the room.
What Praxis Is
Where ideas meet behaviour.
A structured, live intervention that removes scripts, slides, and preparation. Participants work in short, bounded scenarios that mirror real decision conditions.
Praxis primes real-time decision-making. The session is structured so the patterns of how teams behave under uncertainty become visible and workable.
Praxis builds tolerance for uncertainty, not by reducing pressure, but by increasing capacity to stay present inside it.
Participants leave with a different relationship to the discomfort that usually slows decisions.
It also shifts who speaks. Strategic contribution depends on being heard, which depends on others listening. Praxis primes both.
What it builds
Earlier disagreement
Tension surfaces before it calcifies
Clearer reads
On what's actually happening
Less cycling
More commitment
Broader contribution
One person's bug is another's feature, and awareness is key to sequencing for signal
Reduced artefact reliance
Decisions move by attuning to signals
Stronger engagement
When uncertainty is live
This is about reducing avoidance and strengthening the conditions under which decisions actually get made.
What This Is Not
Not presentation training.
Not confidence coaching.
Not performance or theatre-based facilitation.
No personality assessments.
No grading.
Praxis works directly with what shows up in the room: hesitation, recovery, tension, clarity.
How It Works
Short. Bounded. Real.
Leaders move through a series of structured scenarios that require them to speak, respond, adjust, and decide in real time while being observed.
Reflection connects what happens in the room to actual work environments:
Executive meetings
Cross-functional reviews
Delivery discussions
High-stakes conversations
The focus is on noticing patterns early, before they harden into drift.
Format
Half-day or full-day
Cohort
8–16 participants
Setting
In-room, facilitated
Preparation
None required
Prior relationships
Not required
Scope
Standalone or embedded
Where It Fits
Praxis works as
A team recalibration when meetings stall
A leadership transition accelerator
A way to build readiness before visibility increases
A live diagnostic when alignment looks strong on paper but breaks in conversation
In post-deal or transformation environments, hesitation compounds. What goes unsaid in week one becomes structural drift by quarter two.
Praxis addresses the human bottleneck before it becomes operational drag.
When deeper patterns surface, they can be worked through inside broader Unflocked engagements focused on restoring coherence under pressure.
Co-Facilitated By
Sherryl Tarnaske
With three decades of experience in complex integrations across multiple industries, I focus on the friction that emerges when strategy meets execution. I help leaders identify the drag, clarify decision-making, and restore coherence to protect deal value and drive performance.
Karen Oddson
Kitchener\u2013Waterloo based performer with thirty years of experience working without scripts or preparation. Karen helps participants notice hesitation, recovery, and decision patterns under constraint. Her role is to expose participants to unscripted conditions where behaviour becomes visible.
Unflocked works at the level of system coherence: mapping, integration, alignment architecture.
Praxis works at the level of individual and team presence under pressure. Targeted priming for the human bottleneck inside those systems.
Not sure where to start? Start here. Praxis can be delivered as a standalone programme or as an entry point into broader integration, transformation, or executive alignment work.