Experts in organisational transformation & leadership development
We partner with organisations to ensure their vision for transformation becomes a reality.
Most business challenges are actually human challenges…
…and this is especially true when organisations embark on large-scale change. Organisational transformation is extremely challenging, not just because of the high-stakes business decisions involved, but also because of the powerful human dynamics at play. These dynamics can either constrain or accelerate change.
It’s not enough to have a well-crafted business strategy. Change is messy and non-linear, most plans don’t take this into account. Activating change at scale hinges on a leader’s ability to; embrace the mess, focus on shifting the way people think and feel not just how they behave, and harness these shifts to accelerate meaningful progress on their biggest strategic challenges.
We assess the current change capability, develop a clear view on the current mindsets and motivations of leaders that will either support or hinder change success.
We surface the critical mindset and behavioural shifts that are needed to fuel the change and critically develop the practices that will get people there and accelerate the key change initiatives.
Our interventions helpfully disrupt, develop and activate leaders and teams who will create your movement for change. We partner with them to identify and solve their ‘make or break’ challenges, using new mindsets and behaviours, meaning the change is owned by them vs being done to them.
We partner you to create a cultural movement by building internal capability to embed the practices within your organisation and activating a community of change makers to sustain the transformation.
We’ve lived it: Clients trust our consultants because before we were consultants, we ran global businesses and successfully oversaw large-scale acquisitions and change projects. We’ve walked in your shoes and understand the pressure of getting change right, we have also been part of change when it hasn’t worked, so have many learnings to share.
We’re experts in human change: We bring a fundamentally different approach to change compared to management consulting firms. Our approach is human-centred because it’s not enough to just have a well-crafted business solution. Change is messy, we help leaders embrace the mess, engaging the collective hearts and minds to test out and learn from experiments designed to make change stick.
We partner with you throughout the journey: We aren’t just there for solution development. We partner with you throughout the whole journey, from solution to reality, until you see real business results and the change is embedded in your organisation’s DNA.
We enable you to sustain the change: We don’t hand you our solution to your challenges. Instead, we partner with you to develop your organisation’s capacity to generate breakthrough ideas and rise to the leadership challenge, so that you can sustain the change yourselves.
“The first thing I want to understand is what “great” would look like. What are you really hoping for? What are the most important kinds of change you’re looking to drive, and how would those changes create value in your business?
Then I want to explore what’s been in the way so far. What will need to change to achieve your ambition? People often have surprisingly clear answers to these questions, and those answers can help us quickly get on a path that will lead to breakthrough results.”
Lynda Wallace
Client Director
North America
We’ve set a new strategic direction to turn around our business, and we need to quickly orient the organisation toward executing the new strategy. It feels as if everything needs to change at once, from priorities, objectives, and capabilities, to culture, incentives, and ways of working.
We’re embarking on a significant acquisition and we need to quickly integrate our two leadership cultures, figure out what to keep and what to change, and build a culture that enables people from both businesses to be their best.
Innovation is the lifeblood of our business, and our innovation engine has slowed down. We need to break through the constraints of our current thinking and fill our pipeline with fresh and meaningful ideas that will win in the marketplace.
We’re restructuring our organisation and need to develop new ways of working and capabilities and strengthen cross-functional leadership and collaboration to deliver the value we need to create.
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