About Café Zimmy

Think of your version of the “best change advisor” ever – essentially the inverse of the classic useless consultant typified by the old joke of someone who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is.

That’s Zimmy – the archetypal Jedi warrior of change and transformation you’ve never met. It’s partly a play on Bob Dylan’s given family name (Zimmerman), partly because our birth dates are the same date, and partly because Dylan’s vagabond folk-singer/spiritual-seeker life is a great metaphor for the archetypal consultant. Our lives aren’t necessarily the same, but somehow, they’re not that dissimilar!

Zimmy’s Café is where you can meet the organization behavior expert equivalent of meeting up with the musical fusion of Nina Simone, Prince, Lady Gaga & Bach. Who could ask for more? Not one guru – but access to the whole from which they all come!

I thought of having access to such organizational wisdom... by sitting with Zimmy at a café. A virtual Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for change professionals and a useful application of a literary tool to push the boundaries of my own thinking and explore a shared collective of hopes, fears and anxieties we all have around the changing world we live and work in.

But with a twist – in the best of cases, to hint at the possibility for something really interesting to be revealed – because we have exclusive access to Zimmy!

The focus of the blog is people in organizations engaged in implementing change and transformation. For no apparent reason, Zimmy tends to include a musical reference to accompany posts.

Grab a beverage, click the musical reference link in a post, lean in and...

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