Drive business outcomes by partnering with us to create a customized leadership development program tailored to your organization’s context and culture.
Organizational Leadership Services
Your organization’s long-term success depends on its strategy, culture, and ability to navigate change. Our organizational leadership advisory services help senior teams build the capabilities to achieve it.
Our Organizational Leadership Services
Organizational Leadership Strategy Advising
Leadership strategy begins with your business priorities, talent, and culture.
Let us partner with your executive team to identify key drivers for your business. Our leadership advisory services are tailored to your organization’s unique challenges and needs. We can help you envision your “future perfect” state for transforming your organization and its leadership culture to scale the leadership strategy at all levels.
The ability of your executive team to work together effectively may be the single most critical element in your organization’s success.
Our experts can help assess and improve team dynamics to maximize the effectiveness of your senior leadership team — because when collaboration of the executive team is at its best, the positive effects are felt across the organization.
Organizational Change & Transformation Guidance
We can work with your senior team to go beyond change management and execute change leadership.
Our senior advisors help shape your strategy and culture to support leading organizational change and scaling transformation effectively across the organization. We’ll partner with you to increase collective capacity for change and drive it forward with the engine of leaders developing leaders.
Organizational Culture Change Service
Culture is what makes your business strategy come to life. Your leadership culture can make or break your organization’s success.
Partner with our organizational culture consulting experts to align your leader your business strategy and priorities. With decades of experience understanding how strategy, talent, and culture are linked, we can partner with you to create a custom solution that’s tailored to your organization’s unique challenges, context, and needs. And we can help you align them all for maximum impact and measurable, sustainable results.
Organizational Leadership Services That Build Capacity & Drive Results
Develop Collective Capability To Sustain Performance
To be successful, every organization needs leaders who can set strategic goals and positively motivate people at every level to accomplish those goals.
Formal or informal, it’s this collective organizational leadership that drives lasting performance and adaptability in changing environments. It’s not something that happens overnight. Organizational culture must be shaped intentionally.
With our organizational leadership consulting services, you can build internal capacity to keep your leadership strategy evergreen. Our experts can help you understand the skills, behaviors, and capabilities that are most important to your future, from nurturing a high-performing culture, to bolstering collaboration among senior leaders.
Partner with our organizational leadership experts to grow the collective capability of your senior executive team to drive business and leadership strategy alignment, organizational culture change, and sustained transformation.
Navigate Organizational Change by Building Collective Capacity
Most businesses are experiencing one or more of the following organizational changes: new or revised business strategies; mergers and acquisitions; organizational re-structures; industry shifts; technological advances; and ongoing, continuous change that is getting faster and more complex.
Our experts in organizational change leadership can help your senior leadership team develop clarity on the direction and need for change, align resources in support of organizational change, and mobilize commitment to organizational transformation.
Build the capacity to approach organizational change as a means for personal growth, development of organizational capabilities, and business success. Partner with our organizational change consulting experts to build:
- Shared understanding of the required organizational change and how to achieve it
- Enhanced change leadership capabilities such as growth mindset, learning agility, and resilience
- Collective capability to drive organizational change and respond to future change
- Clarity of direction, alignment, and commitment for your changes
- Increased organizational agility and resilience
Leverage Organizational Culture To Accelerate Performance
Your organization’s culture isn’t an accident. It’s forged by connected, aligned leadership to support the company’s business strategy. And when the strategy changes, culture must change too — because culture is what makes strategy happen.
It’s easy to revise an org chart and restructure your hierarchy. But revising mindsets, behaviors, and attitudes — in other words, your organization’s leadership culture — is much tougher.
We can help ensure your organizational culture helps, not hinders, alignment, and help you decide whether you have the right culture for your strategy. Because in the end, it’s not about what culture you want, it’s about what culture your strategy demands.
Our approach to organizational culture consulting is holistic and has 3 distinct phases, each with measurable outcomes:
- Phase 1: Define a clear landscape for success, with current state identification and gap analysis.
- Phase 2: Use connected, aligned leadership to drive adoption of new mindsets and behaviors
- Phase 3: Transition to a strong, sustainable culture, specifically designed to support your business strategy and assess against the baseline to measure progress.
With over 50 years of experience in the field, our expertise is rooted in rigorous research, and we go deeper than other organizational culture consultants to help you make your organizational culture change sustainable for the long term.
Our Approach to Leadership Strategy Gets Results
Our dedicated leadership strategy consulting experts can partner with you and your senior leadership team to create a custom leadership strategy tailored to your organization’s unique challenges and business priorities.
We understand that leadership strategy begins with business strategy so, speaking your language, we’ll help you determine how closely you’ve linked leadership to the success of your business strategy.
Our clients can expect a holistic approach to leadership strategy consulting, rooted in rigorous research:
- A highly collaborative process that will build internal capability to keep your leadership strategy evergreen and support ongoing leadership development closely aligned to your business needs
- Your executive team’s direct involvement in shaping the company’s leadership strategy and ownership of leadership development
- Understanding and initiation of the collective leadership practices needed to shift to your company’s “required future state” and move the needle of organizational performance
- Development of key organizational capabilities and desired individual leadership competencies and behaviors needed to execute your enterprise business strategy
- Leadership solutions that go beyond “training programs” and include learning and development while doing the real work of the business
- Direction, alignment, and commitment across the entire enterprise
50+ years of rigorous research and field experience gives us the expertise to go deeper into leadership strategy. With our experts on your side, we can help you bridge the divide between performance and strategy long-term.
Why Choose Us for Organizational Leadership Consulting?
At CCL, we’ve shaped the leadership development industry for nearly 6 decades through pioneering research and evidence-based innovation. We’re proud of our extensive expertise and experience serving organizations seeking leadership development strategies and solutions.
As trusted architects of transformation, we partner with clients — from global Fortune 500 companies to regional nonprofits — to help them tackle the leadership challenges they face, including organizational leadership consulting When working with us, your organization can expect:
- Evidence-based leadership advisory solutions, based on over 50 years of research and decades of experience in leader development
- Collaboration with best-in-class leadership experts who have earned many awards and accolades for our partnerships with clients
- Customized white-glove services tailored to your organization’s needs and drawing insights from one of the largest leadership research databases in the world
- Transformational, personalized programs centered on your leaders’ individual strengths, skills, and real-world challenges
- Access to scalable learning experiences that foster new ways of thinking, expand capacity, and drive sustainable growth across your organization
- Partnership with a mission-driven organization working to advance the practice of leadership worldwide through a belief in the positive ripple effect that leadership development can have on individuals, teams, organizations, and society.
Our approach goes beyond skill-building — we help leaders instill new, deeper ways of thinking. With CCL as your partner for organizational culture and change consulting, you gain evidence-based, purpose-driven development that delivers meaningful, measurable, lasting impact for your organization.
What Our Clients Are Saying
As a top-ranked provider of leadership development, we’ve shaped the industry for more than 50 years and are trusted globally to design and deliver solutions that enable individuals and organizations to reach their full potential. Clients around the world — including 2/3 of the Fortune 1000 — have partnered with us for organizational leadership consulting, driving remarkable transformations at their organizations.
But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.
More About Organizational Leadership Advisory Services
How Organizational Leadership Can Strengthen Performance
Great organizations need great leadership, especially during times of change. The best way to drive sustainable, enterprise-wide performance is to go beyond developing individual leaders and build connected, aligned leadership at every level.
Our organizational leadership consulting services can help ensure you have strong, collective leadership capabilities at your organization. Our experts will support you in tackling business challenges, accelerating strategy execution, driving growth, and deepening value as you propel organizational performance.
Organizational Leadership Services Tailored to Your Needs
Our leadership strategy consulting experts focus on helping you align your leadership strategy to your vision, mission, values, and business strategy — digging deep into your specific challenges to better understand the leadership capabilities you need to develop to achieve your goals. Partner with us to move beyond generic, one-size-fits-all leadership development approaches.
We can help you build the unique capabilities needed within your specific organization, developing formal and informal leaders at every level, ensuring they work together effectively and in the same direction to help you meet your business goals and achieve lasting success.
Meet Our Organizational Leadership Advisory Team
Alice Cahill, PhD
Director, Organizational Leadership Practice
Alice applies her extensive facilitation and consulting experience to the design and delivery of leadership engagements for executive and senior level leaders of organizations in a wide range of industries. She holds a PhD in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, as well as graduate degrees in several disciplines, including Adult Education and Public Health.
Mark Holt, PhD
Organizational Leadership Practitioner
Mark partners with client organizations to design and facilitate strategic change initiatives that leverage the power of collective leadership. With over 30 years of experience in leadership, team, and organization development, his areas of expertise include executive team development, leadership development strategy, culture transformation and renewal, and organizational change.
Kathleen O’Neill, EdD, MBA
Organizational Leadership Practitioner
Based out of the Pacific Northwest, Kathleen works with executive and senior teams and helps clients develop collective organizational leadership capabilities for leading change, enhancing team performance, and driving innovation and organizational resilience.
Vicki Swisher, MEd
Organizational Leadership Practitioner
Vicki partners with executive teams across a range of industries to define and activate leadership strategy, shape organization culture, and create a collective senior team culture. She has 20+ years of experience in leadership and organization development and has held executive roles in multiple global organizations.
Let’s Talk About Partnering for Stronger Organizational Leadership
Our experts are here to help. Get in touch with us about your business challenges and need for organizational leadership consulting, and let’s talk. We’d love to hear from you!
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Frequently Asked Questions About Organizational Leadership Services
What is organizational leadership and why is it important?
Organizational leadership requires a focus on the leadership and outcomes needed for organizational success. It requires a leadership strategy that’s aligned to the vision, mission, values, and business strategy. It’s important because connected, aligned organizational leadership drives lasting enterprise-wide performance and the ability to quickly adapt in a rapidly changing environment. By developing leadership capabilities across your entire organization, you’re better able to solve your most difficult business challenges, drive competitive advantage, make strategy happen, and ensure successful culture change. If you’re not sure where to start, the expert advisors in our organizational leadership consulting practice can help.
What will your organization gain from organizational leadership consulting?
Organizations that leverage organizational leadership consulting are better able to drive collective, aligned leaders at every level who can execute business strategy with confidence and possess the skills, behaviors, and capabilities that are most important to future success. Our organizational leadership advisors partner closely with senior executive teams to help them better understand their dynamics and the tools they need to collaborate together more effectively to drive organizational performance, strengthen culture, and build internal capacity to keep the business strategy evergreen.
What different factors should you consider when creating a leadership strategy?
When you’re developing a leadership strategy, the first thing you need to do is gather a comprehensive understanding of the current state of leadership and needed competencies in your organization. Ultimately, knowing how formal and informal leaders pull together is key to accomplishing your business goals. Then, you must also consider whether you have a gap between the leadership you need and what you currently have. Learn more about important factors to consider when creating a leadership strategy by reading how to create a strong leadership strategy, based on insights from our white paper and research on the topic.
What is leadership strategy consulting?
Leadership strategy consulting helps your organization create a custom leadership strategy that aligns investments in development with your unique business goals, challenges, and priorities. Our dedicated business strategy and leadership experts engage senior teams in a highly collaborative process that builds internal direction, alignment, and commitment, and they offer organizational development solutions that go beyond the average “training program” to help you create and scale the competencies and leadership culture you need for the future of your business.
More questions? Our experts are here to help. Let’s have a conversation!
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