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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
Build the Collective Capability Needed To Sustain Performance
Every organization needs leaders who can set strategic goals and motivate people at every level to achieve them.
Collective leadership helps organizations perform and adapt. Developing organizational culture takes time and intention.
Our organizational leadership consulting services can help you build the capacity to adapt your leadership strategy as your organization grows. We’ll work with you to identify the capabilities that matter most for where you’re headed, including the behaviors that sustain a high-performing culture and strengthen collaboration among senior leaders.
Partner with our organizational leadership experts to equip your senior team to lead collectively, and align strategy, culture change, and sustain transformation.
Lead Organizational Change by Developing Collective Capacity
For most organizations, change is no longer a single event. Strategic shifts, mergers, restructures, and technological advances often overlap, and the pace and complexity keep accelerating.
Our experts in organizational change leadership partner with your senior leadership team to set a clear direction, align the people resources needed to support organizational change, and build lasting commitment to the organizational transformation ahead.
Treat change as an opportunity to grow your leaders, strengthen your organization, and advance your business. We can help you build:
- Shared understanding of what’s needed to achieve organizational change and how to do it
- Stronger change leadership capabilities including learning agility, resilience, and a growth mindset
- The collective capability needed to lead organizational change and adapt to future change
- Clarity of direction, alignment, and commitment for your organization and greater agility to respond quickly as conditions shift
Shape an Organizational Culture That Drives Performance
Every organization’s culture is shaped by how its leaders work together. When leadership is connected and aligned, culture becomes a driver of your strategy. And as your strategy evolves, your culture needs to evolve with it.
Restructuring is the easy part of change. The harder work is reshaping the mindsets, behaviors, and habits that define your organization’s leadership culture.
Our experts can help you determine whether your culture is moving your strategy forward or holding it back. From there, we’ll help you close the gap, because the right culture is the one your strategy demands.
Build a Leadership Strategy That Drives Results
Our leadership strategy consulting starts with your business priorities. Working closely with your senior leadership team, we’ll help you develop a strategy that fits your organization’s challenges and goals.
We’ll help you evaluate how closely your leadership strategy is connected to your business strategy. Our approach is grounded in rigorous research. You can expect:
- A collaborative process to build internal capability, keep your leadership strategy evergreen, and support ongoing leadership development aligned to your organizational needs
- Your executive team’s role in in shaping leadership strategy and owning its development
- Development that that goes beyond training programs, helping leaders build capabilities needed to execute your strategy
- Direction, alignment, and commitment across the entire enterprise
Nearly 60 years of research and field experience have shown us how leadership turns strategy into results. With our experts on your side, you can close the gap between what your strategy promises and what your organization delivers.
Why Choose Us for Organizational Leadership Consulting?
For nearly 6 decades, we’ve shaped the leadership development industry through pioneering research and evidence-based innovation. We’re proud of the expertise, experience, and results we deliver to organizations building leadership development strategies and solutions.
As trusted architects of transformation, we partner with clients of every size, from global Fortune 500 companies to regional nonprofits, to tackle their toughest leadership challenges. When working with us for organizational leadership consulting, you can expect:
- Evidence-based leadership advisory solutions grounded in nearly 60 years of research and experience in leadership development
- Award-winning leadership experts recognized for the impact of their client partnerships
- White-glove customized services tailored to your organization’s needs, informed by one of the world’s largest leadership research databases
- Scalable development that builds new ways of thinking and drives sustainable growth across your organization
- Partnership with a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the practice of leadership and the positive impact it has on individuals, teams, organizations, and society
We go beyond building skills to expand how leaders think. As your partner for organizational leadership services, we help your leaders grow in ways that drive measurable, sustained results 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.
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