A Focused Leadership Engagement
For a specific leadership or team challenge that has become difficult to shift.
Start with what's actually happening.
Maybe your team isn't taking ownership.
Maybe you're carrying too much.
Maybe you've delegated and still can't seem to let go.
Maybe one relationship on the team is consuming far too much of your attention.
Maybe the business is changing and the leadership that worked before simply doesn't feel like it fits anymore.
Maybe you built the business without ever really thinking about yourself as “the leader”... and now leading people has become a significant part of your role.
Maybe you've brought ways of leading with you from an earlier career and are beginning to question whether they fit the company you're building now.
We begin by understanding what's actually happening without assumptions about whether the source lies with you, the team, the business itself, or some combination of all three.
We look at the whole picture.
- You…
- the beliefs, stories and patterns shaping how you lead.
- The business…
- the roles, structures, expectations and systems influencing what is happening.
- The relational environment…
- what people have learned about responsibility, trust, voice, decision-making and working together.
Often the answer lives somewhere in the interaction among all three.
Awareness matters when it expands your capacity to lead differently in the situations that matter.
Ways to work together
A Deeper Leadership Engagement
For founders who want to explore more fundamentally how they are leading, what has shaped it and what the next evolution of their leadership requires.
Founder + Leadership Team
Work with the founder and team around alignment, ownership, trust, ways of operating and the relational foundation they're building together.
You don't need to know which one you need before we talk.
Bring me what's happening. We'll start there.
Why this work
I've worked with leadership teams at West Pharmaceutical Services, Comcast, Encana Natural Gas — and Cabela's, back when its leadership team was still small enough to shape.
While most of that work has been inside large corporations, that experience is where I learned the importance of the relational aspects of team development. That's what I now bring to founders and their teams — while the way they work, lead and relate together is still taking shape.