ORDO LEADERSHIP
Stewards to Leadership in Change
Origins
“Ordo” takes its roots from the old and rich Kyrgyz language. The literal meaning of the word is a ruler’s (Khan) headquarters that was usually a well-adorned nomadic yurt. It served as a forum where important decisions were made about the fate of the people and country: with peace treaties signed, marriage nuptials witnessed, and the grievances of the people settled. It symbolized a space where the authorities exercised leadership for the benefit of all the people.
We take that ancient meaning of Ordo into the new century to promote a new kind of leadership. Where people see conflict and disagreement, we see an opening for learning. Where people walk away from discussing important issues that face them, we create support structures and space to listen and have meaningful conversations. All of this is in the name of helping people reach their aspirations and goals that can improve their current predicaments. We facilitate this change.
Our Founder
Umar Shavurov brings close to two decades of hands-on expertise in guiding transformative leadership development and change management across diverse sectors worldwide. His commitment to empowering individuals, teams, organizations stems from a belief that a new kind of leadership -one that bridges the gap between reality and aspiration is possible. Umar draws his wealth of experience garnered from collaborating with governments, businesses, non-profits, and international organizations.
Drawing from a rich tapestry of insights spanning adaptive leadership, organizational behavior, social psychology, system dynamics, and immunity to change, Umar orchestrates tailored strategies that propel entities towards their objectives while surmounting barriers.
Drawing from a rich tapestry of insights spanning adaptive leadership, organizational behavior, social psychology, system dynamics, and immunity to change, Umar orchestrates tailored strategies that propel entities towards their objectives while surmounting barriers.
- Public Sector: Umar led the global review of the leadership culture of the World Health Organization to shed light on the roots of its systemic challenges. He worked on unlocking the potential of businesses by introducing smart and efficient regulations as part of the World Bank Group. While working on tax policy and administration reforms in Colombia, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Umar focused on the complex intersection of public finance, change management, social contract, digital transformation and inclusive socio-economic development. Umar also held various advisory roles with the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic focused on transforming and modernizing the economic policies, civil service, and digital transformation.
- Business Sector: Umar understands first hand the challenges of being an entrepreneur from the days when he successfully traded rice and produce in the mid 90s in the markets of Osh, Kyrgyzstan. His passion towards entrepreneurship then took him to work with businesses in building their skills and capacities through setting up start-up accelerators and incubators to designing digital solutions that match employers and job -seekers. Umar led the International Business Council, the largest business association in Kyrgyzstan, through turbulent times in 2006. On the leadership front, Umar has led programs with Sarawak Energy, USG Boral, and the National University of Singapore Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, as well as a number of small businesses in Central Asia by helping them solve their strategic challenges.
- International Organizations: Umar worked with a range of international organizations, including: World Health Organization, the World Bank Group, International Finance Corporation, Development Alternatives Incorporated working on USAID and UKAID projects; projects funded by the European Union; German Technical Assistance (GIZ); Asian Development Bank; United Nations Women; and the United Nations Development Programme.
- Education: Umar holds a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from the Harvard Kennedy School where he trained under Harvard Professors Ronald Heifetz and Dean Williams in Adaptive Leadership. He also received a MA in International Relations and Conflict Resolution from the Universidad del Salvador in Argentina and Diploma in International Relations from the Kyrgyz State University. Umar is also an alum of Harvard Law School’s Executive Negotiation Program.
- Geographic Focus: With a geographical focus spanning North America, Latin America, Western Africa, Central Europe, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia, Umar brings a global perspective to his engagements.
- Interest: Beyond his professional endeavors, Umar is an enthusiastic ultra-trail runner and holds a profound passion for culinary arts, further enriching his holistic approach to life and work.
Track Record
We work with individuals, companies, and organizations around the world using various leadership frameworks and offer unique and bespoke solutions. Among international organizations, our clients include the National University of Singapore, United Nations Women (UN Women), German Technical Assistance, and others.
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Our Offer
We don’t believe in pre-defined solutions or one secret framework. Instead we believe in partnering with people, companies, and organizations to shape solutions that will be tailored for them and owned by them.
Leadership as practice to bridge the gap between reality and aspirations is best exercised from within the system that calls for change. The cornerstone of our approach is to create an experiential and deeply immersive environment that helps participants to internalize the mindset of practicing leadership pertinent for their context. We draw our inspiration from the Adaptive Leadership, System Dynamics, Organizational Behavior, Theory-U, Immunity to Change and other frameworks that put tough problems at the center of the attention. The curated experience facilitates the clients to deal with real problems pertinent to their professional or personal journey. This method allows clients to diagnose and deploy their solutions- a more sustainable and meaningful way to enable change and transformation.
Our boutique leadership and change facilitation advisory services include:
Leadership as practice to bridge the gap between reality and aspirations is best exercised from within the system that calls for change. The cornerstone of our approach is to create an experiential and deeply immersive environment that helps participants to internalize the mindset of practicing leadership pertinent for their context. We draw our inspiration from the Adaptive Leadership, System Dynamics, Organizational Behavior, Theory-U, Immunity to Change and other frameworks that put tough problems at the center of the attention. The curated experience facilitates the clients to deal with real problems pertinent to their professional or personal journey. This method allows clients to diagnose and deploy their solutions- a more sustainable and meaningful way to enable change and transformation.
Our boutique leadership and change facilitation advisory services include:
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ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE REVIEW
We design and conduct a comprehensive scan of the existing culture, structure and defaults to identify key drivers that enable the current success or failure.
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ONE TO ONE
One-to-one coaching and leadership facilitation for personal transformation in a private and/or professional setting: challenges can range from helping you diagnose the root causes of what is holding you from implementing your New Year’s resolutions to lose weight to managing personal fears of losing control in a small and large team setting.
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GROUP WORK
Group work centered around a specific problem in the context of a company or organization; for example, a recent merger and acquisition in a tech company brought together two different cultures that led to clashes and hurt the bottomline, necessitating mediation and resolution.
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Youth Leadership Academy
Youth Leadership Academy- we design and run customized programs for youth between 18-23 years old to improve their personal leadership skills. Young people improve their situational and contextual awareness and ability to mobilize their peers to address important social, business, political and cultural challenges
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Leadership for Tech
Leadership for Tech- we help tech talent to develop soft skills that can help them orient better in team settings and deliver project results.
Our Partners
The ethos of CALI is more than partnership. It is a way of life. Umar and Sam Kim, founder of Center for Asia Leadership Initiative, conspired in the hallways of the Harvard Kennedy School, its libraries, and over long dinners on how to share their insights and learning with people and organizations to solve their diverse leadership problems. Since then, Umar has appeared as lead or co-facilitator over two dozen times in CALI-organized workshops, offline and online, as long as a few hours to multiple days and months. He has also moderated and participated in CALI conferences with presidents, business titans, academics and global thought leaders.
Tell us how we can work together
- Send us an email at umarshavurov@gmail.com or send us your email address and we will reach out to you
