Nik Beeson

Nik Beeson

Disruptive Discoverer

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Nik is a Change Consultant specialising in curiosity, disruption and resilience. He is the director of the Curiosity Culture project, co-founder of Toronto Change Days, co-director of Change Days in North America, and an associate at Capillary Consulting. He’s a Professional Coach and Certified Change Agent (ACMP), with 20 years of experience in change and technological migration in the field of Digital Communications.

Previously Nik was a Spiritual Care resident on the Intensive Care Unit, Emergency and Neuro Wards at the Toronto Western hospital, worked in Palliative Care, and was a live-in staff person in homes for the homeless and for people with mental health challenges. His university studies (Theology & Ecology) focused on consciousness, addiction and love. He has cultivated a compassionate, sophisticated and pragmatic approach to identity, limitation and transformation that he applies to his change work with individuals and organisations.

Nik also composes and occasionally performs adventurous and exploratory music, writes prose and poetry, and is an ever-curious practitioner and initiate of Kundalini Yoga, mindfulness awareness and Contact Dance.

He’s also Pop to two marvelous teenage boys.

Rich Batchelor

Rich Batchelor

Curiosity Cultivator

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I have been working in a world of increasingly disruptive change for over 20 years, supporting, managing and leading through the successful transition from past challenges to future opportunities.

I began my managerial journey as a 22-year-old first time team leader and over the following decade and a half, I progressively to more senior roles within the UK government. I then took my own entrepreneurial challenges and set up my own business focused on change management learning and advisory services working with public, private and not-for-profit organizations of all sizes worldwide.

During my career I have developed and delivered four competency frameworks for large public sector organizations. I have delivered successful change in multimillion dollar IT infrastructures, realising benefits of equivalent magnitudes. I have worked across global organizations, undertaking restructures and centralizing of services in financial services, pharmaceutical and educational providers.

I have always believed in challenging the status quo and encouraged others to do so. Whether it was staff involvement in the many Kaizen events I’ve facilitated, leading teams into new and different technologies or developing personal goals and challenges for individuals I have coached and counseled, I encourage the individual and collective need to question ‎as a significant tool in future successful outcomes.

I’ve built up communities of change through my own application of curiosity. Developing core parts of the Association of Change Management Professionals and leading a fivefold ‎growth as president of the Toronto Chapter.

I now regularly provide change advisory services, coaching and learning facilitation globally. I deliver my own certified change agent program and provide a catalogue of other ‎development opportunities through my business.

I entered the journey of Curiosity Culture with a desire to take curiosity from a passing thought to a proven practice. I want to enable its practice to benefit individuals, organizations and communities in their growth towards great futures.

Have a quest-ion? You’ve come to the right people!