Strategic Leadership and Change Enablement
How I can help you
Coaching
As a founding member of Executive Arts I bring more than 25 years of expertise in a family of maps for transformational conversations.
Whether at a turning point in your own life or career, or in circumstances where your team or organisation needs to change direction, my support can provide a framework for reflection, learning and growth.
Team Development
Organisations and teams develop new capability through successful delivery, as well as through training programmes. My focus is on the former, with learning a by-product of strategic excellence.
Successful teams have clarity of direction, an instinctive awareness of risk and opportunity, capacity for reflection on past performance, well-defined roles and accountabilities, integration of individuals’ efforts into collective responsibility, and established mechanisms for measuring their progress and refining their execution.
I will work within your team, rather than as an external advisor, to help you bring each of these characteristics to life in service of your strategic aspirations. I will provide programme-level support, oversight and reflection, maintaining focus on the big picture.
Project Delivery
My consulting work is underpinned by the belief that changing circumstances and changing aspirations require us to change our minds. New clients and new projects come about because of the desire to change something - to take advantage of an emerging opportunity, resolve an organisational tension or risk, or to embark on a new strategic direction.
I help manage the conversation as leaders think the challenge through and begin to engage others. Good facilitation gets us a long way, and whilst managing these conversations I introduce ways of diagnosing the situation, re-framing the challenge, and integrating diverse aspects into a coordinated approach:
Conceptual frameworks for hearing and seeing patterns between all of the different elements
Identifying where we should focus our attention
Getting to work on things which are stuck and will otherwise hold us back
Managing resistance to change, and developing shared commitment to new directions
Overcoming organisational boundaries, planning pathways of action, and engaging others
I help leaders and teams develop and implement their strategic aspirations.
I encourage them to shift their perspective and develop new insights into their biggest challenges, engaging their teams, customers and stakeholders along the way.
I focus on practical approaches to change management, because success rests on navigating uncertainty and exploring new possibilities.
