Executive coaching that integrates strategic vision, adaptive skills, and systems perspective
Leadership for Complex Times
Today’s leaders face unprecedented challenges: rapid technological change, social disruption, evolving markets, and increasing systemic interconnection. Dr. Cameron Norman brings decades of award-winning experience in executive leadership, innovation, and academia to help you thrive in this landscape.
Our coaching builds capacity to navigate complexity with confidence and vision.
What We Support
Our consultation process is designed to enhance your creative capacity, enabling you to shape your organization and advance your career as a leader. Rooted in design thinking and the behavioural science of leadership and creativity, we support our clients in becoming creative, impact-driven, compassionate leaders.
Seeing Systems
Recognizing patterns, interdependencies, and leverage points within your organization and broader ecosystem. We bring data and evidence to practice to help you lead through complexity.
Fostering Adaptation
Building organizations that sense, respond to, and learn from changing conditions. We’ll help you build skills, plans, and deliver the means to lead and assist your teams in change.
Designing for Resilience
Creating structures and processes that withstand disruption while maintaining core functions is what leaders need to manage in a rapidly changing landscape. We’ll design a plan for resilience drawing on leading-edge behavioural science and health promotion research.
Cultivating Learning Organizations
Establishing feedback mechanisms that transform experience and evidence into actionable knowledge. Learning thrives in systems, not just individuals and we’ll help you build it.
Leading Strategic Change
Guiding transformative initiatives with both vision and pragmatism. We’ll support you in building the confidence, capability, and skill to navigate and lead your team in times of transition.
Our Coaching Process
Drawing on Dr. Norman’s unique combination of academic rigour, practical experience, and design sensibility, as well as over 25 years of experience working in the health system, sessions are tailored to individual needs while grounded in evidence-based approaches. Be build a relationship with you because we are invested in your success.
Each relationship includes:
Systems Assessment
Mapping complex dynamics, opportunities, and constraints within your leadership context.
Leadership Exploration
Assessing challenges, strengths, and opportunities to (re)design your optimal approach.
Strategic Design Sessions
Working through specific challenges using design thinking and strategic foresight tools.
Adaptive Learning Cycles
Structured reflection on leadership experiments and their outcomes.
Implementation Support
Pragmatic guidance for translating insights into organizational action.
Who We Serve
Our custom programs are suited to your needs and situation. We support:
Executives Navigating Change
Leaders steering organizations through significant transitions or transformations.
Innovation Leaders
Those fostering creativity and new thinking within established structures.
Systems Change Agents
Leaders working across boundaries to address complex social challenges.
Emerging Leaders
High-potential individuals preparing for greater complexity in their roles.
The Cense Difference
Systems-Informed: Drawing on complexity science to see beyond linear cause-and-effect.
Design-Driven: Applying creative problem-solving approaches to leadership challenges.
Evidence-Based: Grounding recommendations in research while respecting lived experience.
Developmentally Oriented: Meeting you where you are while creating pathways for growth.
Transformative Impact
Leaders who work with Cense develop not just new skills, but a fundamentally different way of seeing and engaging with complex challenges. They emerge with greater capacity to design adaptive organizations, lead meaningful innovation, and create sustainable impact.
You’re not just improving individual effectiveness—you’re building organizational capacity to thrive amid complexity and change.
Ready to transform your leadership approach? Connect with us to explore how coaching can support your journey through complexity.
