Winning Solutions

We use the word “solutions” quite deliberately. We shy away from talking about products or services, per se, but can easily talk to the approaches and methods we employ to achieve outcomes, seize future opportunities, or solve problems for our clients in the leadership and organizational space.

Below are a few examples of what our partnership with clients can accomplish.

"We interact with the most senior decision-makers across any sector with a data-driven and direct approach to generate tangible and observable results."

Irene McPhail, Founder & Senior Principal

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Developing sustainable pipelines of leaders equipped with the right skills and behaviors for tomorrow’s challenges

  • Identifying highest-potential leaders (individuals and cohorts)

  • Leadership assessments (qualitative, quantitative, psychometric)

  • Individual and cohort development planning

  • Defining future leadership capabilities

  • Design, development, and delivery of management and/or leadership academies

  • Follow-up integration into internal and external training/developmental programs

  • Certifying senior leaders as “leadership coaches”

  • Individual and team leadership coaching

  • Ongoing progress/impact assessments and recalibration

2.
Ensuring the success of leaders transitioning into more impactful roles

  • Complete landscape assessment

  • Forward-looking leadership assessments

  • Intensive executive coaching and consultation

  • Executive team-building design and facilitation

  • In-depth consultation on typical transition-related topics such as change leadership, team-building, focus on key priorities, managing expectations, navigating new relationships, professional re-branding

  • Ongoing maintenance programs for enduring impact

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Eliminating barriers to organizational effectiveness, from leadership team misalignment, failure to achieve diversity goals, resistance to change, adapting to global perspective, institutional sustainability, etc.

  • Conduct and/or consult on data from colleague engagement or climate surveys

  • In-depth, custom qualitative and/or quantitative assessments of organizational conditions

  • Weaving business and/or strategic themes into an organizational optimization roadmap

  • Identifying the fewest and simplest integrated solutions and/or interventions that will yield optimal results

  • Execution of solutions (training, facilitation, consultation, coaching, etc.)

  • Measuring results, recalibrating, remeasuring

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Transforming enabling functions (e.g., HR, IT, Finance, Legal, Compliance) toward strategic business contribution

  • Complete landscape assessment

  • In-depth qualitative assessments of organizational conditions and enabling function impact

  • Weaving business and/or strategic themes into an organizational roadmap

  • Identifying the fewest and simplest integrated solutions and/or interventions that will yield optimal results

  • Execution of solutions (training, facilitation, consultation, coaching, etc.)

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Assessing leadership effectiveness and impact

  • Board-commissioned executive assessments

  • Selection criteria development and assessment

  • Succession planning consultation

  • Custom-tailored research that captures the truth, mitigates risk, and optimizes success

  • Governance-level briefings

  • Linkage consultation among executive assessment, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness metrics

  • Customized support for transitioning executives