Leadership Development
Developing the awareness, judgement, and emotional intelligence needed to work with complexity, tension, and emerging potential.
Circularity One
Sense and develop emerging potential.
Circularity One works with visionary business and community leaders who sense that more is possible. Together, we surface unseen patterns and help emerging potential take practical form.
The systems we build shape who we become.
Organizations are more than structures for coordinating work. They are places where people learn how to relate, work through difference, share power, and participate in something larger than themselves.
Every organization has a visible structure: its roles, stated values, and decision processes. It also has a less-visible life shaped by relationships, history, unspoken tensions, and informal authority. This is often where decisions really get shaped.
What operates beneath the surface cannot be separated from the structures we create. This is where soul and systems meet. Lasting transformation asks us to develop people, relationships, and structures together.
Organizations are also building blocks of our economic and community systems. How they bring leadership, ownership, investment, and purpose into relationship shapes how value and power move through the communities around them.
Where the work begins
Organizational Development
Aligning people, structures, governance, and financial realities into relationship with organizational potential.
Community Systems
Helping people and institutions work across boundaries to develop community initiatives and viable models for collective benefit.
Circle is an ancient social technology.
A symbol of wholeness
Bringing the whole person, group, organization, and system into view.
A relational practice
Gathering in ways that deepen listening, share voice, and unlock innovation.
A governance practice
Distributing authority and responsibility through clear roles, consent, and feedback.
A community pattern
Connecting participation with ownership, enterprise, and shared purpose.
How the work unfolds
Begin to understand the whole dynamic
Attend to leadership, relationships, organizational structures, and operational and financial realities. Develop a shared understanding of purpose, what matters now, and the potential beginning to emerge.
Work with what lies beneath the surface
Bring unspoken tensions, informal authority, recurring patterns, and competing needs into a form that can be understood and worked with.
Develop viable form for transformation
Shape emerging potential into an adaptive path forward, supported by viable business models, organizational structures, governance, and practical action.
“When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate.”
C.G. Jung, CW 9iiThe same is true of our organizations and community systems.
Community systems in practice
Okanagan Circular Society is a community-systems application of Circularity One’s work. Through its Community Enterprise Framework, participation, enterprise, shared ownership, investment, and community benefit are brought together in one practical model.
Community Solar is the framework’s first funded application, moving from community dialogue and collaborative design through feasibility, financial modelling, partnerships, and implementation.
Explore Okanagan Circular SocietyDownload the feasibility study
Practitioners
Shane Lapp P.Eng., M.A.
Lead practitioner · Practice integration and applied systems
Shane works at the intersection of depth psychology, organizational life, and community systems. His background combines mechanical engineering, renewable energy, business development, financial modelling, organizational design, and community depth psychology.
Shane’s work brings soul and systems into relationship, attending to inner life, meaning, and unseen patterns while developing practical organizational and community forms.
His ongoing research explores how inner development and systems change can support greater wholeness in leadership, organizations, and communities. His applied work includes the Community Enterprise Framework developed through the Okanagan Circular Society, Community Solar, leadership development, and collaborative approaches to governance and ownership.
Shane’s training in community depth psychology brings attention to what is operating beneath the visible life of organizations and communities: recurring patterns, unspoken tensions, inherited histories, and possibilities that have not yet found form. This depth-informed perspective is brought into relationship with practical organizational, financial, and systems work.
Contributing practitioners
Denise Young MAct
Leadership development and facilitation
Denise brings more than 15 years of experience in project management, facilitation, communications, emotional intelligence, and inclusive leadership. Her work helps leaders develop greater self-awareness, strengthen relationships, communicate across difference, and create environments where people can contribute and grow.
Within Circularity One, Denise contributes to leadership development, facilitation, learning design, and the connection between emotional intelligence and organizational capacity.
Barri Harris CPA/CMA, M.A.
Organizational transformation and finance
Barri is a consultant and former CFO with experience leading organizational transformation across technology, health care, and private enterprise. She brings practical depth in finance, organizational design, leadership, and the realities of translating human-centred intentions into durable operating structures.
Within Circularity One, Barri contributes to organizational transformation, financial and structural design, and the integration of people, purpose, and performance.
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Begin with what is present.
A tension. A possibility. A sense that the current way of working is no longer enough for what wants to happen next.
Let’s explore where the work could begin.
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