The World is Changing!

We help organizations adapt
to meet the challenge with
Stakeholder Governance.

Governance: the system by which an organisation is controlled and operates,
and the mechanisms by which it, and its people, are held to account.
Ethics, risk management, compliance and administration are all elements of governance.

Governance Alive

Consulting Services – Facilitation – Mediation – Training

Services in the Art of Consent-based Governance

for Innovative Individuals & Organizations

We are experts in helping individuals and organizations design their own self-governance models. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions. Top-down compliance is insufficient for empowering and engaging all stakeholders and inefficient in an ever changing environment.

Consulting Services

Organizational Change Design & Management
Board Development & Strategy
Group Mediation & Meeting Facilitation
Company-Wide Agility Services

Public & Private Training

Meeting Facilitator Training & Certification
Organizational Change Consultant & Certification
Dynamic Governance or Company-Wide Agility Training
Business Development Workshops

Our Global Network

We have offered Training and provided Business Consulting rooted in Dynamic Governance, Agile Design and related social technologies in over 20 countries.

We plant the seeds of sociocratic, decentralized governance, Agility everywhere we go.

Our global community welcomes you to participate as we transform ourselves and our organizations!

Our Founding Partners

John
Buck

Founding partner, lead trainer, certified sociocracy expert and source of sociocracy for the English speaking world. Consulting, training, and facilitation expertise with agile, open space and beyond budgeting. Decades of IT experience. Passionate about children (and adults) embodying and living in a decentralized world.

Monika Megyesi

Founding partner, lead trainer, certified sociocracy expert and self defined chaos bender. Certified mediator, facilitator and trainer. A life devoted to helping others experience a better life. Devoted to ensuring we embody the Governance Alive core values. Committed to creativity, diversity and giving everyone a voice.

community feedback

Governance Alive training helped our uniquely complex working organization navigate through the process of determining governance. John’s and Jess’s assistance was invaluable.

After having led and sat through many meetings in which anxiety and rancor are the rule, Sociocracy is a breath of fresh air. The Sociocratic process encourages us to listen, self-reflect and find clarity about the group's aim all at the same time. In the end, we get things done, but, astonishingly, all have participated, the loudest voice did not win and we used the heck out of our collective wisdom.

If you are interested in how to change the way communities, businesses, teams, and civic environment work, I can think of few more impactful approaches than, Governance Alive. The emphasis on interactive practice will continue to make this program impactful for changing our broken organization cultures

Dynamic Governance &
Organizational Agility Books

JOHN BUCK & SHARON VILLINES

JOHN BUCK & JUTTA ECKSTEIN

We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy – Our understanding of how the world works was fundamentally altered when the mechanical model of closed, linear systems was replaced with cybernetics and complexity theory. Sociocracy is a governance method that uses these new sciences to design organizations that are as powerful, self-organizing, and self-correcting as the natural world, including the honeybees.

Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting Open Space & Sociocracy -Today companies are expected to be flexible and both rapidly responsive and resilient to change, which basically asks them to be Agile. Lack of an overarching theory about how to expand the Agile Manifesto has led to many fragmented attempts to apply Agile company-wide.

The World is Changing!

We help organizations adapt
to meet the challenge with
Stakeholder Governance.

Governance: the system by which an organisation is controlled and operates,
and the mechanisms by which it, and its people, are held to account.
Ethics, risk management, compliance and administration are all elements of governance.

We are experts in helping individuals and organizations design their own self-governance models. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions. Top-down compliance is insufficient for empowering and engaging all stakeholders and inefficient in an ever changing environment.

Consulting Services