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Calm, Clear & HelpfulEp. 214 Sonja Blignaut: being a waysfinder in a complex worldDo you experience our world as secure and predictable, or find it overwhelming and anxiety provoking? “Complexity nerd” Sonja Blignaut considers how AfrikaBurn mirrors life’s complexity, becoming comfortable with being uncomfortable, the difference between complicated and complex systems, and developing 4 meta-skills aimed at thriving in an entangled world. www.mariettesnyman.co.za · complexityfit.com · www.morebeyond.co.za · This episode's podcast notes and photograph · www.facebook.com · www.instagram.com · www.linkedin.com2025-06-1742 min
The Quietly Confident Women Podcast - Defining Life and Confidence after DivorceConversations with Quietly Confident Women: #3 - From Rock Bottom to Resilience: Healing after Cancer, Divorce & LossIn this deeply moving episode of Conversations with Quietly Confident Women, I sit down with Sonja Zipser, a woman whose story of strength, survival, and transformation will leave you in awe.After facing a cancer diagnosis, the unexpected departure of her husband, and the devastating loss of her mother—all in the same weekend—Sonja was left to navigate single motherhood while battling for her own life. But instead of allowing these hardships to define her, she chose to rise.We discuss:💫 How she found t...2025-02-2331 min
FuturePodEP 214: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Sonja BlignautThe next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Sonja Blignaut.2024-12-2356 min
FuturePodEP 214: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Sonja BlignautThe next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Sonja Blignaut.
Interviewed by: Peter Hayward & Frank Spencer
2024-12-2256 min
Leading Complexity#10 - Interview with Sonja BlignautIn this episode of the Leading Complexity podcast, hosts Tomas Björkholm and Michael Göthe dive into a conversation with Sonja Blignaut, creator of the Waysfinder framework. Sonja explains how her framework helps leaders navigate complexity by fostering situational awareness and embracing multiple potential pathways forward. Throughout the episode, Tomas and Michael highlight key concepts such as the importance of direction over fixed goals and how to create enabling constraints that guide decision-making. Tune in to explore how leaders can better understand and adapt to an unpredictable world with practical insights from Sonja's expertise.
2024-09-2426 min
Reliability Enablers#52 Navigating Complexity within IncidentsSonja Blignaut is a complexity expert. That might not sound relevant to incident response in reliability engineering. But it is!Our systems are becoming more complex and so are the resulting incidents.Learning about complexity can help reliability folk go into an incident with less anxiety, which we’ll explore in this episode.We'll explore the causes of complexity in incidents and how the Cynefin framework classifies incidents.We'll also deep dive into the concept of complexity itself and dispel a common issue where it gets mixed up with complicatedness....2024-08-0636 min
No Way OutPsychedelics and Sensemaking with Alexander BeinerSend us a textWhat if the key to understanding our complex world lies in altered states of consciousness? Join us as we sit down with Alexander Beiner, author of "The Bigger Picture: How Psychedelics Can Help Us Make Sense of the World," and episode co-host Sonja Blignaut, for a compelling conversation on the intersection of psychedelics, sensemaking, and extended states of consciousness. Discover how traditional shamanic practices and modern research shared by the likes of Stephen Kotler, Robin Carhart-Harris, and Michael Pollan can help us see the world through a more interconnected lens.Explore...2024-07-291h 22
Balcony TalksS3E5 Complexity | Guest talk with Sonja BlignautLet's talk about complicated, complex and chaos. Ecosystems, Cynefin, sense-making and diversity. And of course: COOL (courageous, open, observant and light), with the amazing Sonja Blignaut!
Find Sonja and her work here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonjablignaut/ | Reading suggestion: https://thecynefin.co/library/cynefin-weaving-sense-making-into-the-fabric-of-our-world/ | Support the podcast on Patreon: patreon.com/MargaridaSilva2024-04-1944 min
The Brazilian BA GuestHow to be nimble in complex contexts?Are you feeling stuck in a complex mess or overwhelmed by continuous change in your business environment? Do you fell the need to be nimble as an individual and/or as an organization? The Brazilian BA guest Sonja Blignaut will help us to you get unstuck and become future-ready.
#Nimble is the ability for organizations to sense and respond to change with speed and precision.
Sonja is the founder of More Beyond and co-founder of ComplexityFit. She is also the ex-CEO of Cognitive Edge (now The Cynefin Co). She is a globally sought-after teacher and speaker on topics related...2024-02-151h 00
MetadoxosEP02 - Deep listening to the near future with Sonja Blignaut #METACRISISPara encerrar com chave de ouro, lançamos mais um episódio da nossa série #deeplisteningtothenearfuture, e junto do meu parceiro e co-host Sean, convidamos Sonja Blignaut, um dos grandes nomes da atualidade que pesquisa, palestra e trabalha com complexidade e inovação. Perguntamos para a Sonja como ela se relaciona com a #metacrise e sua resposta foi muito certeira e um tanto inesperada! O termo metacrise te causa ansiedade?!
Sonja questionou o termo #metacrise e ressaltou a importância de deixarmos para trás uma linguagem estática e linear, e procurar mais fluidez, baseada em verbo...2023-12-2952 min
No Way OutSonja Blignaut & Nigel Thurlow: Human Factors in the Age of AI (World Agility Forum 2023)Send us a textPrepare to have your mind expanded as we journey through the intricate relationship of complexity and AI in the ever-evolving world of business. Join our esteemed guests, Nigel Thurlow and Sonja Blignaut, as we confront the inescapable realities of uncertainty and ambiguity that loom in our world. We delve into the rise of what Thurlow labels as "bullshit jobs," and the importance of understanding our environment, relationships, and human factors in this era of AI. This discussion is not just enlightening; it's a stepping stone in unraveling the enigma that is complexity.2023-09-2833 min
No Way OutBefriending Complexity: Agile, Flow, and the Art of Wayfinding with Sonja BlignautSend us a textFrom Lisbon, Portugal, Brian "Ponch" Rivera sits down with Sonja Blignaut to discuss her upcoming talk at the World Agility Forum. Sonja shares her process of preparing for the talk and the challenges of navigating complexity in the Agile world. They also delve into the importance of embracing complexity instead of viewing it as a problem to be solved. Sonja shares her insights from her visit to the John Boyd archives and how it has influenced her understanding of perception and wayfinding. Sonja is the founder of More Beyond...2023-09-2440 min
Advanced Executive Leadership#12 Reactions to Advanced Executive FluencyToday’s episode follows the long awaited publication of the Advanced Executive Fluency CEO report. To coincide with the report’s launch I hosted a webcast with a number of executives and development professionals to get their initial reactions to the research. If you want to access the report, you can download it at: https://waldencroft.com/download/4121/If you’d like to hear more either about our Advanced Executive Fluency development programme for executive teams or our programme that helps your executive team develop the foundations capabilities of enterprise leadership, called Zenith, you can reach out to...2022-05-1941 min
On The Edge#042 Sonja Blignaut - Crossing ThresholdsIn this conversation I connected with Sonja Blignaut.
Originally a meteorologist, Sonja now partners with people who need to navigate, make sense of, and lead in uncertainty. She spans the boundaries of leadership, organisational development & change, strategy, risk, innovation, and marketing. In short, she works wherever there is complexity, which nowadays is more or less everywhere.
Sonja is internationally recognised as an expert on Complexity, the Cynefin Framework, Waysfinding, and Complexity Fitness. She is certified in various individual and systemic coaching methods and a sought-after speaker, with experience at various conferences locally and internationally, including Te...2022-05-0339 min
Being Human#165 Letting Go of Certainty - with Sonja Blignaut> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/
In this episode of Being Human, I speak with author and complexity consultant Sonja Blignaut.
Meteorologist then IBM consultant, Sonya took a varied path to her latest role as CEO of leading complexity practitioners, Cognitive Edge.
Sonja is a born-and-bred South African. As she points out, things don’t get much more complex than in the Rainbow Nation.
In this episode, we talk:
Complexity and mindfulness
The individual versus the system
Letting go of the certainty merchants
The diversity within
Facing your triggers ...2021-05-281h 21
MeetMyPotentialHow to Live and Thrive in Complexity with Sonja BlignautWhat does a “good” leader look like? What do you want from someone who is leading your organization? Times are changing, our environment is always in motion, our world is forcing us to think outside of the boxes we have created. As humans we create these boxes in order to give ourselves a sense of control and certainty, but the time has come to rethink the way we lead.Sonja Blignaut joins me today to dive into our complex world and talk about how we as leaders need to reframe what we think is leadership. Sonja provides a ve...2021-01-2543 min
Morphosis in conversationsSonja Blignaut "Alignment is not a good thing in complex systems. Coherence is"Morphosis is a space for transcontextual exploration of an emergent narrative. On our journey, we, Petra Trobäck and Lina Fogelberg, talk to people who in one way or the other challenge status quo and existing truths and beliefs.
We meet Sonja Blignaut, founder of More Beyond, partner for Cognitive Edge in South Africa and a complexity worker at heart. With Sonja we explore why alignment strips an organisation off its diversity, how today's companies are addicted to control and how curiosity can be turned into a deliberate and personal practice.2020-04-0134 min