Dr. Anja Hartmann
Executive Consulting & Coaching

The 4-Column Exercise is a tool developed by Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey to describe & analyze the way an individual (or a team) is - at the same time! - pursuing a goal which is really important to them and getting in the way of them reaching that goal as they are (unconsciously) also held by certain mental structures that push them away from the very goal they want to achieve.

The “Overcoming the Immunity to Change” Coaching Arc is a series of up to nine interrelated exercises that take an individual (or team) through the process of gradually deepening their understanding of their own mental complexity and its limitations, testing ways of expanding the limits of their own mental complexity, and re-integrating their insights into a next level of new goals.

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Background & Theory

My consulting and coaching work is based on the constructive-developmental approach shaped by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey (Harvard University). Based on more than 20 years of research, this approach is well-founded in psychological theories and experiments and has been applied practically in a broad range of individual and institutional coaching situations, ranging from work with Fortune 500 (and other) companies & professional service firms to work with schools, hospitals, associations and public institutions.
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Selected Tools

Over my years of working as a consultant, counselor, and personal coach, I have come to know and applied a wide range of tools and methods to initiate, drive, and implement change processes for individuals, teams, and organizations. Depending on the specifics of each situation, I draw on all these tools and methods and adopt and adapt whatever seems most useful in a given context.
However, regardless of the specific situation and the highly individual context of each client situation, I have come to value a core set of client-centric interventions.
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