The Future Is Adaptive.
In today's complex and rapidly changing world, traditional organizational development models often fall short. The Organa™ Framework offers a transformative approach, guiding organizations to evolve by integrating leadership, culture, and systems into a cohesive, adaptive framework.
What I Do
I help leaders and teams move beyond surface-level solutions to unlock lasting change.
By revealing the invisible forces—like unspoken group dynamics, identity tensions, and cultural blind spots—I help organizations become more self-aware, connected, and adaptive. Whether through coaching, workshops, or strategic consulting, I create space for transformation where it matters most: how people think, relate, and lead.
The Organa™ Framework guides this work across four powerful pathways:
Leading Self strengthens personal awareness, identity, and resilience.
Leading With improves team dynamics and psychological safety.
Leading Across drives culture, strategy, and systems change.
Learning in Practice embeds growth through experimentation and real-time reflection.
Together, these pathways create a developmental journey that aligns people, culture, and systems—so organizations can thrive in complexity, not just survive it.
Why It Matters
Because complexity isn’t going away—and leadership as usual won’t cut it.
Today’s organizations are facing fast change, messy problems, and increasing pressure to do more with less. Traditional leadership models—built for predictability and control—break down in environments filled with ambiguity, competing priorities, and constant disruption.
That’s where Organa™ comes in.
When leaders and teams understand what’s really driving behavior and decision-making—beneath the surface—they stop reacting and start leading with clarity and intention. They learn to navigate tension, uncertainty, and change not as threats, but as invitations to grow.
This shift changes everything:
Cultures become more responsive and resilient.
Collaboration becomes deeper and more authentic.
Strategy becomes action—grounded in purpose, not panic.
The result? Organizations that don’t just survive uncertainty—but thrive because of it.
Behind the Organa™ Vision
DR. MATTHEW DUNN
Matthew is an Organizational Psychologist, Master Certified Professional Coach, and seasoned leader with a doctorate in Organizational Leadership Psychology. After nearly a decade as a collegiate soccer coach—where he honed his skills in high-performance team dynamics—Matthew founded Performance Rising in 2016. Today, he combines deep psychological insights with real-world leadership experience to empower leaders, teams, and organizations to thrive amidst complexity, adapt with agility, and achieve lasting growth.
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Services Rooted in the Organa™ Framework
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Leading Self
Personal Leadership Development & Coaching
Unlock the inner resources to lead in a changing world. Through personalized coaching and Organa™ tools, you’ll clarify your leadership identity, deepen emotional intelligence, and build the resilience needed to lead with confidence and authenticity, no matter the uncertainty around you. -
Leading With
Team Dynamics & Collaborative Practice
Great teams don’t just work—they adapt. I help teams develop psychological safety, strengthen communication, and navigate power, roles, and boundaries with clarity. Using the Organa™ framework, your team will become more connected, more courageous, and more capable of facing complexity together. -
Leading Across
Culture & Systemic Change
Culture is more than values on a wall—it’s how your system makes meaning and adapts. I partner with you to map cultural patterns, uncover systemic blind spots, and guide purpose-driven change through dialogue, story, and experimentation. With Organa™, transformation becomes a shared journey, not a top-down mandate. -
Learning in Practice
Boutique Learning, Built for Your System
Build the capacity to learn, adapt, and evolve in real time. Through custom-designed modules and experiential learning, you’ll embed new skills through reflection, experimentation, and feedback — turning complexity into a space for growth, not overwhelm. Empower your team to think systemically, act intentionally, and keep learning forward.Description goes here
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Organa™ for Athletics
Building Culture. Developing Leaders. Elevating Performance.
Organa™ for Athletics brings a systems-based approach to leadership and team development, designed for the unique pressures and dynamics of sports environments. This service helps athletic departments, coaching staffs, and teams become more self-aware, cohesive, and adaptive—on and off the field.
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The Organa™ Leadership Experience
My Signature Leadership Development Program
The Organa™ Leadership Experience is my flagship offering — a transformative leadership journey designed for today’s complexity. Rooted in the Organa™ Framework, this program helps leaders at all levels strengthen their self-awareness, build relational capacity, and lead adaptively across dynamic systems.
Through immersive learning, reflection, and experimentation, participants grow not just as leaders — but as catalysts for meaningful, lasting change.
