FAQ

Leadership development is the art of closing the capability gap between your leader's current abilities and those required to achieve your company's long-term vision. This can consist of experiential learning, exposure to new experiences and targeted educational opportunities to help equip leaders with the mindset and toolkit required to lead your company through change and transformation.

A leadership development consultancy can bolster your leaders with the skills and experience to execute your business' long-term vision.

A good leadership development consultancy equips your leaders with the capabilities and tools required to lead your organisation through change and transformation successfully.

An excellent consultancy listens and learns, understanding your unique business drivers, motivations and challenges to ensure sophisticated alignment and executive buy-in of any leadership development program.

An outstanding consultancy helps you create purpose-driven leaders who are inclusive, visionary, agile and driven.

I believe tomorrow's leaders are today's fearless purpose-driven change agents. They can anticipate the future - including political, social, economic and sustainability challenges - in a visionary way that other leaders can’t, to create impact aligned to the company's purpose.

They understand the needs of their customers and can foresee strategic internal and external challenges and complexities. They build and leverage an innovative and creative culture that shifts employee sentiment (like mood, engagement, general wellbeing, etc.), promoting connection and inclusivity in the workplace.

These leaders are advantageous over their competitors because they have experienced the type of personal growth and development that has made them curious and open, actively listening to what's happening in the world around them. They have faced setbacks and failures but have used these experiences to become drivers of change. They understand what happens if they don't listen, innovate, anticipate or take calculated risks.

What fuels them is ambition, energy, a need to evolve and an appetite for results. They want to strategically and collaboratively help companies achieve their purpose and vision while promoting sustainable and successful outcomes.

Most leaders don't become purpose-driven change agents by chance but have been transformed organically through experience or leadership development programmes.

My varied experience supports the strategy design and delivery of many global talent and leadership development programmes.

I have consulted, directly and in partnership with other global consultancies, into some of the world's top organisations, including:

ANZ Bank, AstraZeneca, AXA, BMW, CBRE, ENGIE, European Central Bank, General Motors, John Holland Group, Lloyd's Register, Merck & Co., Porsche, Simplot, Solvay, Sberbank, Under Armour, Westrock, and many more.

I typically work with medium to large and enterprise organisations across a variety of private-sector industries.

These businesses are often experiencing an adjustment period and require consultation to align their leadership skills with the company's vision and support with their leadership development strategy, design, and/or delivery.

If you're unsure of the service needed for your HR plans please don't hesitate to get in touch, and we can talk through your current situation.

When partnering with you, I’ll immerse myself into your business, learning about your company's vision and long-term aspirations, unique operating context, leadership needs, and burning platform for change. I will explore pre-existing talent and leadership development processes and interventions, review employee engagement data and HR analytics, employee demographics, team structures, customer satisfaction and financial data. I’ll help you shape your strategic leadership development agenda, which will future-proof your business for disruption.

There is no one-size-fits-all leadership development programme, but there will be a similar process in creating a design that fits your business needs.

First, I’ll help you create the vision for your leadership development program and conduct an immersive talent needs analysis to learn about your company's unique needs.

Then, I’ll make strategic recommendations aligned to your specific context, transformation journey and budget.

My leadership development programme design will focus on developing leaders and gaining important buy-in from the senior/executive leadership team. This is so participant leaders can receive adequate support from their leaders, and HR across the company. My process includes building relationships with critical stakeholders to ensure maximum impact.

Finally, I’ll create leadership development interventions and support their facilitation.

I also partner with other global consultancies, to ensure recommendations are not limited to my abilities and that you implement a robust program that helps your leaders flourish.

Identifying future business leaders can be a complex process due to many factors. A company's operating model, internal political factors, employee visibility issues and lack of opportunity for employees are some of the most common causes for top talent and future leaders to go unnoticed. Without critical development opportunities and the chance to prosper, high performing and high potential leaders will likely end up exiting the company without showing their potential.

I want you to have complete visibility across your top talent and ensure they are engaged, thriving and helping you lead the company towards your longer-term vision.

A framework for helping you identify high potential leaders of tomorrow can include:

• Conducting exploratory interviews

• Analysing current hiring & promotion processes

• Rolling out leadership potential psychometrics

• Identifying relevant simulations & assessment centres

• Assessing existing learning & leadership development data

• Designing a customised solution for your needs

Modern leadership development theory suggests that employees at all levels in the organisation are leaders in their own right. However, some leaders stand out for the right reasons or need extra attention. I develop all levels of leadership who have the potential to grow and develop and evolve your company.

Currently, I work with:

Middle manager high potentials who are successors and getting ready to step into more senior roles over the next few years

Senior leadership individuals and teams preparing and readying to lead the company through a period of change and transformation.

C-suite executive leaders and teams who want to be better prepared to lead their company and have a positive and sustainable impact.

Example offerings include: upskilling and supporting a group of middle-senior leaders within a business unit that is under-performing; identifying and developing talent who lead a service line that is transforming or one that was recently created; high potential identification and development; building a companywide strategic and long term talent pipeline; and senior executive development (CEO, ELT-1, etc.) through to leaders across the whole organisation, at every level of the business.