Alan Froggatt

Who I Am

Four decades at the meeting point of human development, leadership and innovation

I’m Alan Froggatt. For almost forty years I have worked with people and organisations to unlock what is possible for them. I remain as curious as ever, and committed to our individual potential and our collective future.

My journey began young. In my teens I trained in hypnotherapy, and in my early twenties I qualified in transpersonal psychodynamics and holotropic breathwork, disciplines that revealed the reach of human consciousness. Soon after, I became New Zealand’s youngest practising psychotherapist, grounded in psychodynamic, Gestalt and integrative approaches.

People and organisations are emergent, always capable of transformation.

That realisation, drawn from early clinical work, has shaped everything I have done since.

What I’ve Built

In 1996 I founded the practice that has become BeGenerative, an advanced coaching and leadership development firm. From it grew the BeGenerative Leadership Development programme, a six-month journey completed by more than 7,000 people in 16 countries and adopted by professional coaches worldwide. It equips leaders, entrepreneurs and executives to master their world, align their commitments and deliver outcomes of real consequence.

I also designed a six-stage meta-model for innovation and delivery, a practical architecture integrating systems thinking, strategic design and completion disciplines into one generative framework. It has guided complex projects, embedded cultural transformation, and trained leaders to design, deliver and complete with integrity.

Experience That Shaped Me

To widen my perspectives, I studied business and entrepreneurship with Robert Kiyosaki, sharpening my strategic and entrepreneurial edge. I have studied late-stage ego development with Terri O’Fallon, whose research brought deeper rigour to how I apply integral theory to leadership. Ken Wilber’s Integral frameworks and late-stage developmental models continue to inform the work.

Philanthropically, I helped build one of the most active startup networks per capita in the world. On the board of facilitators for Startup Weekend (Techstars) I designed processes and mentored organisers, facilitators and startup teams. I founded Startup New Zealand, which became internationally recognised for its mentoring processes and leadership development frameworks and helped thousands of people take their first steps into entrepreneurship.

Today I am a member of the Institute of Applied Metatheory, a global think tank integrating psychology, philosophy, systems theory and complexity science into new frameworks for leadership, culture and human futures. We call this emerging approach MetaIntegral.