The 4.5 Stage of Development (Strategist) Up-Shift from 2.5 Conformist

Leaders experiencing this stage often have these gifts:

• Become skilled facilitators. Often not seen as a "boss".
• Principles ethics used to guide themselves and the entire organization.
• See how contexts shape people and situations from the outside.
• Can see that some environments, containers and systems are better than others.
• Focus on one's own and others development in order to increase their capacity to work with complex contexts and systems and serve their purpose.
• Sees into the long future: Operate in a time frame that encompasses past and future generations.
• Work as hard as their employees
• Have dynamic relationships.
• Sees the big picture: Situated in a space that includes sentient and planetary concerns.
• They can prioritize approaches for the benefit of humanity, the planet, and all life.
• Embrace paradox and projections as unavoidable.
• Adept at creating complex adaptive systems and containers that support the shaping of different developmental visions, resulting in personal and collective transformations across different levels of development.
• Seek feedback as essential to development.
• Understands that communication includes projections, but sees them upon reflection.
• Sees developmental rights-the right to be developmentally at whatever stage one occupies as long as they aren't hurting anyone else (a guiding principle).
• Highly effective change agents
• Can handle resistance to change
• Authentic

Leaders experiencing this stage tend to have these challenges

• Excessive pressure to develop vertically
• May appear as a "know it all"
• Can't see projections in the moment.

Strategist Tools: Developmental models; adaptability and agility