Our Specialist methodology

Our specialist methodology integrates our process and five areas of expertise - sharpened by deep experience partnering with large organizations. Using this, we help decision-makers assess the strengths and risks in their leadership pipeline, ensuring they can meet both current and future business goals.

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Scope Success Metrics

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Confirm Strategy of Approach

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Conduct Analysis

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Execute Strategy

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Advise on Long-Range Plan

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OUR FIVE AREAS OF EXPERTISE

We focus solely on leadership capabilities - assessing, benchmarking, and developing them to drive growth, transformation, and crisis resilience. Five areas of expertise integrate with our process to deliver results.

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Senior Leadership Focus

Success in the highest levels of leadership is based on different capabilities to more junior leadership levels. We specialize in the skills, behaviors, and qualities required for effectiveness in senior leadership teams and roles.

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Quantitative Analysis

Leadership capabilities can be measured, described and predicted with a high level of accuracy. Our specialist methodology provides you with clear visibility on hidden, hard-to-assess skills - to benchmark leaders, anticipate capability gaps, and build leadership skillsets for the future.

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Succession Development

Succession planning is often no more than names on a page. Our expertise in succession development equips your talent pool to chart their progress and strengthen specific skillsets to prepare for more senior leadership roles.

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Transformational Mandates

Growth demands strategic and visionary leadership that can transform obstacles into opportunities. We have expertise in developing these transformational leadership capabilities - helping leaders to align their profile, vision, and impact to meet the demands of business transformation.

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Stakeholder Engagement

Building and sustaining buy-in is non-negotiable for business transformation and growth. We are experienced in stakeholder engagement and behavior change in corporate contexts, and regularly partner with internal communications and legal teams.

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OUR PROCESS

Our process has been honed by countless projects, each shaped by the challenges and ambitions of clients across industries and geographies. We don’t waste time chasing distractions; we isolate the critical levers that guarantee success. This isn’t just an approach, it’s a promise, built on experience and delivered with precision, to produce results that speak for themselves.

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Scope Success Metrics

Meet with us to discuss your goals, your situation - what you’re dealing with right now. We’ll look at what’s worked for others in similar positions and tackle the hard questions straight on. By the end of the meeting, we’ll know if this partnership has the makings of success and you’ll have answers to the questions that matter most.

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Confirm Strategy of Approach

We develop a strategy of approach and pilot it to make sure it hits the mark and speaks directly to your audience or needs. We calibrate and elevate the planned strategy using the pilot results.

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Conduct Analysis

We gather insights that matter - validated through psychometric assessments, stakeholder interviews, and data benchmarks - to pinpoint your strengths and uncover areas for improvement. By the end, you’ll have a clear picture of where to focus and how you measure up against the competition.

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Execute Strategy

From there, we’ll deliver a solution tailored to your unique situation, built to achieve your goals and crafted with your audience in mind. Every step of the way, we’ll collaborate to ensure the approach is as effective as it is precise.

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Advise on Long-Range Plan

Once the work is done, you’ll receive customized recommendations to take things further - embedding key value drivers across your organization and laying out actionable next steps to build on the successes we’ve created. You’ll leave with a plan to amplify impact and keep the momentum going.

THE CLIENT PERSPECTIVE

As ever, your insight is so valuable. You put data and science to the things that we know our leaders need to be. It has helped us make so many critical decisions.”

CEO, LIFE SCIENCES COMPANY

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