Sustainable partnerships that deliver
Drawing on our expertise in psychodynamics, neuropsychology, sociology and systems theory, we analyse business’s contexts and hold a mirror up to its leadership, culture and the requirements of roles within it. We’re guided by strategic oversight in supporting companies to become purpose-driven, open organisations that embrace diversity.
Our record is second-to-none, with 50% of the top FTSE 100 trusting us to bring about long-term sustainable shifts in their performance.
We have extensive experience working with Private Equity to ensure that the businesses they back have the right leadership and teams in place to deliver exceptional portfolio performance.
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Purpose-Driven Culture Change
We help individuals find their own sense of purpose to create ownership and momentum at a personal level, which in turn creates an organisation-wide culture shift.
Organisational transformation takes place within a framework of gradually shifting mindsets and behaviours, with a clear articulation of a business’s purpose that goes beyond commercial success. To achieve this, we help individuals find their own sense of purpose to create ownership and momentum at a personal level, which in turn creates an organisation-wide culture shift and forges a shared, purposeful vision of the future. As organisational culture change can be drawn-out and sometimes messy we take the long view, partnering with clients to make sense of the process, regularly monitor progress, take stock and course-correct along the way.
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Leadership Development
We create evocative, immersive experiences adapted to the challenges clients face, allowing them to reflect individually and collectively.
Our leadership development programmes are built around self-awareness and the need for leaders to forge their own personal journeys. We create evocative, immersive experiences adapted to the challenges clients face, allowing them to reflect individually and collectively, make informed choices and learn from each other. Focus and content are directly aligned with organisational purpose, strategy and key objectives, with an important factor being how leadership needs to evolve over time. The programmes are delivered through on-the-job experiences, peer-coaching, action-learning, regular feedback and technology-enabled learning. The results are powerful, personalised, rounded interventions with leaders’ unique development goals at their heart.
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Senior Executive Profiling
We explore thinking patterns, emotional drivers, how the person relates to others, and their overall approach to work and leadership.
Our senior executive profiling begins with a comprehensive interview that covers background and career history. We explore thinking patterns, emotional drivers, how the person relates to others, and their overall approach to work and leadership. This helps us to uncover underlying assumptions and core beliefs, while psychometrics give us a more in-depth understanding of mindsets and other ways in which the individual operates. What results is insightful, accurate, business-focused assessment reports that evaluate an individual’s suitability for a particular role and context. It also increases self-awareness and informs developmental planning and coaching.
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Coaching
We peel back the layers to uncover assumptions and preconceived thoughts.
Our coaching is informed by two principles: the need to serve the individual and the need to serve the organisation they work for. We create meaningful alignment between the two, always within a framework of purpose, values and impact. Working closely with individual leaders to understand their needs and behavioural patterns, we peel back the layers to uncover assumptions and preconceived thoughts. To anchor leaders to a deep sense of purpose and deliver the broadest impact, we also use a variety of methods to track progress over time, sustain effort and create measurable results.
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Building Inclusive Leadership
Unlocking the power of everyone in an organisation depends on a leader’s self-awareness and ability to understand.
We make real connections between inclusion and a business’s strategic agenda, showing leaders how their skills can be used to create environments in which people with different backgrounds, styles and abilities can thrive. Through coaching and workshops, we identify how bias and homogeneity leads to groupthink and hinders innovation. Using a combination of analysis and experience, we demonstrate how unlocking the power of everyone in an organisation depends on a leader’s self-awareness and ability to understand and manage a wide variety of thought patterns, behaviours and values.
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Senior Team Effectiveness
We encourage dialogue and debate, exercising a team’s decision-making muscle in an open, non-confrontational way that ensures everyone’s voices and experiences are heard.
When working with senior teams we take an integrated, strategic approach in order to exponentially increase their impact on an enterprise’s performance. Using a collaborative, energising and challenging approach, we identify specific contextual challenges, diagnose blockers and enablers to success, and clarify future goals. We encourage dialogue and debate, exercising a team’s decision-making muscle in an open, non-confrontational way that ensures everyone’s voices and experiences are heard. We align teams behind a common purpose, harnessing their collective talents so they’re in tune with not just stakeholders but the wider leadership function both inside and outside the organisation.
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Board Effectiveness
We’re able to provide rich insight into how effectively a board is functioning at any given time, and the real impact it is having.
We have in-depth experience of working with board members on a range of issues – including CEO succession – and testimonials have commonly regarded our approach as groundbreaking. Using rigorous interviews, observation and examination, we’re able to provide rich insight into how effectively a board is functioning at any given time, and the real impact it is having. This is often supplemented by developmental feedback to individual board members.