Our aim is to make trust, autonomy and openness the default style of leadership.
We are proud to align and support Goal 4: Quality Education from the United Nations Global Goals
who we are
about Stephen
Speaker, Agile Coach, Facilitator
For more than 15 years Stephen held senior leadership and consulting roles in cloud computing and other complex, high-scale organisations. He was named “Most Influential Business Leader” in the 2016 UK Agile Awards and one of his teams received “Most Improved Agile Team” the same year.
From that experience, Stephen is convinced that success in teams is most influenced by the environment that leaders create. Get that right and teams will amaze you, Customers will love you and your teams will rock!
Stephen is an award-winning Agile Leader and is a regular worldwide speaker on Change and Agile Leadership.
- Most Influential Business Leader and Most Improved Agile Team (Agile Awards)
- Chartered IT Professional (BCS)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM1Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner
- Kepner-Tregoe (KT) Programme Leader and Consultant
- Agile Coach and Speaker
about Juliet
Executive & Leadership Coach & Trusted Partner
Juliet is a qualified executive coach and people leader.
For 20 years, Juliet held senior HR leadership roles within 24/7 customer and tech organisations. She has built award-winning talent solutions and founded many communities including Women in IT and Early Careers.
Juliet’s mission is to shape futures (find out more here). To unlock the potential in businesses and help people to believe in themselves and the opportunity that lay ahead.
- Best Global Team Coaching & Consultancy Founder 2021 (International Business Woman Awards)
- Mental Fitness Coach
- Runner Up Women in HR & Recruitment Award
- #IamRemarkable Google Facilitator
- Winner and Finalist for Employer Brand and In-house Recruitment Awards
- Mental Health First Aider at Work
- Member of the CIPD
- ILM Level 7 Executive Coaching & Mentoring
- BPS Level A & B Psychometrics including Myers-Briggs (MBTI®)
Step I & II, TKI™, Strong, 16PF, SHL, Saville Wave Strengths and Saville Ability, GPI Psychometrics & 360 survey
what we believe to be true
Providing exceptional, competitive products and services is not easy, and today that’s more accurate than ever.
Leaders are challenged with hiring, engaging and retaining teams of flexible, expert people. Teams themselves face relentless waves of technology change, complexity, and growing Customer demand. Individually these challenges would be difficult, but together a perfect storm confronts us daily.
The 2018 World Economic Forum “Future of Jobs Report” again points to increasing change:
“The Fourth Industrial Revolution is interacting with other socio-economic and demographic factors to create a perfect storm of business model change in all industries, resulting in major disruptions to labour markets.”
How ready are your leaders and teams to meet this rapidly changing landscape?
In our own experience, traditional and trusted management approaches that have worked well in predictable, controllable functions just don’t survive. We tried. Across sectors, the results were sub-optimal: wasted time, challenges attracting and retaining great people, a reliance on reactive responses, low staff morale and Customer loss of faith and disengagement.
However, with the right skills, leadership practices, and agility, teams can thrive and enjoy success in step with the world outside. And that’s why we created Open Square.
At Open Square, we teach, partner, and coach leaders and teams how to succeed and scale in our changing world.
our values
Achievement – we are motivated by seeing individual and team achievement, valuable action and results.
Inclusiveness – we believe everyone, no matter their background and experience has a valuable voice, and diverse teams deliver beyond their component parts.
Learning – we are always learning, and in today’s marketplace, it’s essential that we do. We expect, and love change.
Openness – we believe in transparency, sharing and open working. Amazing things happen when data is available to skilled and interested people.