The Orange Twist - Shake up your thinking on leadership, culture, and change in 10 minutes.

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Giovanna D'Alessio, MCC

10 episodes

7 hours ago

In this episode of The Orange Twist, Giovanna D’Alessio leads us into an unexpected pairing: ancient oracles and artificial intelligence. From the smoky riddles of Delphi to the sleek dashboards of today, we explore what happens when leaders look to technology for answers—and forget to listen to themselves. Episode 10 introduces the idea of Agentic Leadership: leadership that remains human, present, and awake in an age of algorithms. It’s not about rejecting AI, but about using it without out...

Management

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Episodes (10/10)

The Orange Twist - Shake up your thinking on leadership, culture, and change in 10 minutes.

Agentic Leadership: When AI Meets the Human Heart

7 hours ago

8 minutes

The Orange Twist - Shake up your thinking on leadership, culture, and change in 10 minutes.

The Empty Chair and the Cost of Pretending

In Episode 9 of The Orange Twist, Giovanna D’Alessio shares a striking moment inside a Dutch boardroom: a sleek space, a leadership retreat, and an empty chair placed—deliberately—for the Customer. That silent gesture becomes the thread that pulls us into a deeper exploration of purpose: not as branding, but as an operating system. What happens when purpose is real? What happens when it’s fake? Drawing on examples from Patagonia, Wells Fargo, Volkswagen, and McKinsey, this episode challenges ...

1 week ago

9 minutes

The Orange Twist - Shake up your thinking on leadership, culture, and change in 10 minutes.

The Employee Experience Is a Soul Journey

We talk a lot about employee experience as if it were a design problem: tools, processes, perks, and touchpoints. But beneath the systems lies something more delicate — the emotional and spiritual landscape people walk through every day at work. In this episode, I tell the story of Luca, a rising star who, despite success on paper, felt like a ghost in his own career. We’ll explore why so many employees silently ache with disconnection, why engagement numbers remain stubbornly low, and why no...

2 weeks ago

10 minutes

The Orange Twist - Shake up your thinking on leadership, culture, and change in 10 minutes.

Through the Fire: Conflict as a Doorway

Conflict in teams is often treated as something to avoid, control, or quickly resolve. Yet beneath the discomfort, there is usually something more: a deeper truth waiting to be heard. In this episode, I explore how conflict can become a doorway to transformation rather than a sign of dysfunction. Drawing on the lens of Deep Democracy, we look at conflict not as a breakdown but as the system speaking—offering intelligence that might otherwise remain hidden. We reflect on what happens when team...

3 weeks ago

10 minutes

The Orange Twist - Shake up your thinking on leadership, culture, and change in 10 minutes.

The Two Loops of Transformation

Every organization, every system, even every person, moves through cycles of growth and decline. As one way of working begins to lose energy, new possibilities quietly start to take shape—often small and fragile at first. The Two Loops Model, developed by Margaret Wheatley and the Berkana Institute, offers a simple yet profound way of seeing this dynamic. In this episode, I explore how the model can help us recognize when a system has reached its limits, notice the early signs of what wants t...

4 weeks ago

10 minutes

The Orange Twist - Shake up your thinking on leadership, culture, and change in 10 minutes.

The Many Roles We Play

We often think of roles as fixed: titles, job descriptions, places on the org chart. But in this episode, we explore a radically different view — one inspired by the work of Arnold Mindell and Process Oriented Psychology. Here, roles are fluid. They move between people. They rise and fall depending on what the system needs. Today you’re the visionary. Tomorrow, the skeptic. Sometimes, you hold the energy of joy. Other times, you carry the quiet voice of resistance no one wan...

1 month ago

8 minutes

The Orange Twist - Shake up your thinking on leadership, culture, and change in 10 minutes.

The Emotional Understory of Change

We talk a lot about change in organizations — restructuring, rebranding, reimagining the future. But underneath the Gantt charts and strategy decks, something quieter — and more powerful — is unfolding: Emotions. Today, we explore the emotional undercurrents that shape every change effort — often invisibly. The fear of loss. The hope for renewal. The grief that no one names. And the subtle courage it takes for leaders to hold both clarity and vulnerability. Drawing on the insights of Barry Os...

1 month ago

7 minutes

The Orange Twist - Shake up your thinking on leadership, culture, and change in 10 minutes.

The Team Is Not the Problem: It’s the Space Between

Today, we’re stepping into the invisible. Into the subtle field that shapes every team interaction, every meeting, every moment of collaboration — whether we notice it or not. You know the feeling. You walk into a room with smart, kind people… and something just feels off. Tension lingers. Energy drops. Blame bubbles up. And we wonder: Who’s the problem here? But what if it’s not who… but where? What if the challenge — and the opportunity — lies not within individuals, but ...

1 month ago

9 minutes

The Orange Twist - Shake up your thinking on leadership, culture, and change in 10 minutes.

The Invisible Architecture: How Worldviews Shape Organizational Life.

Every organization has an architecture—but not all of it is visible. In this episode of The Orange Twist, we explore the unseen frameworks that shape how we lead, collaborate, and respond to change. These hidden structures aren’t found in org charts or strategy decks—they live in our assumptions, our worldviews, and the stories we unconsciously tell about what leadership means, how power works, and what change requires. Without realizing it, we’re always operating through a lens. Some of us l...

1 month ago

9 minutes

The Orange Twist - Shake up your thinking on leadership, culture, and change in 10 minutes.

Leading in complexity

What does it take to lead in a world that won’t slow down, won’t simplify, and refuses to fit neatly into strategic plans? In this opening episode of The Orange Twist, we explore what it means to lead in complexity—not just navigate it, but truly inhabit it. When the systems around us feel stuck, when change seems endless and clarity elusive, the impulse is often to tighten control, drive harder, or retreat altogether. But what if the invitation in complexity is not to master it—but to transf...

2 months ago

9 minutes