Offerings

The Executive Partnership

For CEOs and executives holding a mandate of consequence

As a CEO, managing director or member of the executive team, you hold responsibility for the organisation as a whole. Your mandate now asks more than your current way of leading can consistently support. It might be a transformation that has to land, or a role that asks more of you than any before it. You bring the live work as it unfolds, and we work directly with it.

The Work

At this level the organisation takes its signal from you, and your state travels into decisions and culture well before any strategy does. We work with the live terrain of your mandate, including the enterprise vision you hold and the relationships at the top that shape how decisions land.

The partnership also works with what this level of responsibility asks of you inwardly. Leading at this level can be isolating, and the weight of your decisions can narrow what you see without you noticing. We work with what you are carrying that no one else in the organisation can hold for you. As your relationship to that responsibility changes, perception sharpens and what you transmit to the organisation changes with it. The work draws on the eight vertical capacities in the Arc of Leadership Consciousness, with particular emphasis on State Regulation, Field Awareness, and Systemic Impact.

Structure

Six to twelve months, built around your mandate. At the outset we agree the measures the work will be held to, with you and, where appropriate, your chair or board. Deep sessions run at a regular rhythm, and I work alongside you in the field during critical periods. At the close we review progress against the agreed measures.

Outcomes

In your leadership

  • ·You stay clear and steady under the full weight of the role, and your decisions come from what the moment requires
  • ·You sense emerging shifts in the organisation and respond before they become problems
  • ·Your leadership presence has a positive influence across the organisation, extending well beyond the decisions you make directly

In performance

  • ·The organisation moves towards a clear, shared vision that your executive team owns, embodies and champions
  • ·The transformation gains traction, with tangible results in delivery and financial performance
  • ·The culture you seek becomes embedded in how the organisation thinks and acts
  • ·The board’s confidence in your leadership deepens, creating room for more candid, strategic dialogue

I hold a small number of Executive Partnerships each year. This offering is available for groups of executive leaders or as an individual partnership.

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