Structure & Process operates with an explicit company purpose. We use words to invite clients and new members to our community and to guide ourselves in what we do.
We recently changed our purpose from “beautiful work“ to “Organisations worth belonging to.”
Or, more verbose:
Beautiful work
on things that matter
in thriving collaborative communities.Organisations worth belonging to.
I shall explain why we made the change and it means to us.
“Beautiful work” was the condensed form of what we were about: work in all its forms, and a sense of beauty which went far beyond aesthetics, but included purposefulness, connectedness with other people, and sustainability.
However, I felt that we needed to move to a more concrete expression of what we are about and especially what we bring into the world. I realised that beyond “beauty”, we actually create something very tangible in Structure & Process and in our client organisations:
- Organisations – stable structures that provide a framework for people to do work in. (More on “organisations” in this 2015 blogpost.)
- and a sense of belonging.
When we started Structure & Process seven years ago (in 2012), we had come to the realisation that that most existing organisations were simply not attractive to us:
- Their purposes were often vague or non-existent, their behaviour sometimes openly evil
- Their value systems rarely fit ours
- Their social environments were unhealthy or uninspiring
We wanted to build something better: A company to belong to, in the best sense of the word. A purposeful organisation that one would be happy to work in. (“Purposeful organisations in which people love to work.” became our company purpose in 2015.)
Over the years, we realised how precious our time is: we need to make very conscious choices what to spend it on. This is one thing we emphasize in worth belonging to: Every person has a choice to make what to work on and who to engage with. It is a valuable choice. Which organisation is worth belonging to? Is yours?
With the new focus on organisations rather than work, we emphasize the tangible and a long-term intent: We are building something, not simply doing. We are building organisations, not just consulting.
This will give us a renewed focus on our own structures and systems, putting effort into making Structure & Process an organisation worth belonging to and a beautiful structure & community to do meaningful work in.

We shall also look into our long-term relationships with clients, and into new forms of cooperating, e.g. as joint-ventures rather than within transactional consulting project relationships.
While we work on giving this shape, please already consider our invitation: You are welcome to join us, as a colleague or client, and work together with us building organisations worth belonging to. It could be yours. It could be ours. It could be a new one we start together. What would you like to work on?
We vow do to it beautifully and in line with our values.

We are organisation builders, coaches, consultants, process facilitators and human beings. If you would like to work together with us, please get in touch!