About

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Modern organizations are navigating complexity faster than shared clarity can stabilize. This work exists to strengthen orientation under pressure.

Across executive teams, practitioners, and institutions, the focus is simple: detect strain early, expand decision bandwidth, and restore coherence before distortion compounds. 

Behaving Badly HQ exists to study what happens when modern work environments place people inside unresolved contradictions. When priorities compete, expectations conflict, and structures don’t hold, people don’t stop caring. They adapt. Those adaptations often look irrational, inefficient, or unprofessional from the outside. Inside the system, they make complete sense.

This work focuses on understanding those patterns, not to judge, but to see what conditions produce them, and what it takes to restore clarity, capacity, and choice.

The BBHQ Manifesto is here.  

This work supports:

• Executive teams navigating structural pressure
• Coaches and consultants seeking deeper diagnostic tools
• Institutions exploring systemic coherence under complexity

Charleen Johnson
Founder and principal advisor. Two decades of global leadership advisory and executive coaching experience.

Behaving Badly HQ
The public research and investigative platform examining workplace absurdities as early signals of architectural strain.

InSpark Group Inc.
Established in 2005. The incorporated parent company delivering executive briefings, practitioner certification programs, publishing, and enterprise engagements. 

Current focus includes:

• Executive Briefings
• Practitioner Certification
• Annual Workplace Absurdities Report
• Long-form publishing through Behaving Badly Books