our ambition for Curve is to be a truly regenerative business with a stake in the future, working to help organisations change for good.
We want to give leaders experience that help them to feel differently about themselves, their teams and their organisations, to influence their thinking and ultimately to lead them to make different, more sustainable and equitable choices that benefit all their stakeholders.
At Curve we believe it’s an organisation’s people and their collective potential and abilities that have the power to truly transform it. We focus on facilitation and coaching as the two most powerful ways to empower everyone to create change.
caring for the planet
We believe that every organisation needs to understand and minimise its negative impact on the natural environment and human society. We make deliberate choices to lower our own carbon footprint, and work with our clients to do the same. Sustainability isn’t a separate department; we choose to put it at the heart of our work. We look for opportunities to go above and beyond; such as offsetting 200% of our calculated emissions for 2022-23, rather than simply what we emit, for example. Our goal is to give more than we take, and to use our skills and presence as a force for good.
We measure our own environmental footprint, and look for ways to minimise it, encouraging the people who want to buy our products and services to choose remote facilitation and coaching, incentivising that choice through our pricing and our investment in building expertise in this area, demonstrated in our book, Closer Apart.
people business
Curve is in the people business. All our work champions people and their ability to create change and improve things, for themselves and others. It’s vital that we create a culture, both within our company, and in all our workshops, that is safe, with equal share of voice and fair access to all, educating our team to ensure they lookout and challenge bias that might knowingly or unknowingly cause harm.
This might mean giving a platform to voices that aren’t usually heard, calling out challenging behaviour that limits other people’s ability to participate, or designing and redesigning sessions as many times as it takes to make them accessible to everyone present. It also means being open and receptive to feedback and making it easy for everyone, internally and externally to make suggestions that will make our work better and more inclusive. We do this through a formal process that invites candour without confrontation.
As a business we are invested in the idea of good leadership; facilitator leadership that takes into account a wide range of human and non-human stakeholders and is willing and able to balance and respect their needs. So, when we say we have a stake in the future, we mean that we want to see human and non-human life thrive for millennia to come, and this means addressing the systemic barriers that have undermined society and our relationship with the natural world.
