Turning Relationships Into Assets

Glenn is a Research Associate and Fellow of the Morris J. Wosk Center for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University.

Difficult Discussions: Glenn Sigurdson works in the middle of difficult discussions in complicated situations among or within organizations. This work has taken Glenn across a multitude of settings in a wide range of activities and gives him a unique depth of experience.

Participant-Driven: Whether building relationships across diverse values and interests, often with opposing viewpoints, or working across divisions within a company to build a vision or develop an operational plan, it is always Glenn’s goal to work in the service of participant-driven, rather than authority-driven, approaches. He helps people see how they can make differences work for them, not against them, and that this is what it takes to make a difference.

Shared Decision-Making: Glenn helps participants work effectively together to move towards outcomes. Sometimes these are as simple as getting to know each other better; more often, they are explicit agreements. The shared ownership created by the participant-driven approach stimulates a mutual commitment to carry out such agreements much more effectively than authority-driven decision-making.

A Leader, Not an Owner: In summary, Glenn leads without owning. He measures his success by the extent to which those who own the problem develop their own responses to it, and those with dreams realize them.