Lead at the edge

Developing leaders to meet the challenges at the cutting edge of your transformation with uber-relevant, just-in-time capability building. Grounded in the latest research, peer learning, and growing conversational fluency to coach, facilitate, speak candidly and tell compelling stories.

Building leadership capability at the leading edge of transformation

This global manufacturing company has been a household name for nearly a century; but needed to transform rapidly to address disruption in its core business.

The situation was pressing and constantly evolving. Built a rapid sensing system to understand the challenges at the leading edge of the change. Designed experiences to be delivered across a population of 15,000 managers to address these needs. These focused on the critical conversations required to challenge inertia and unlock innovation and momentum. The sessions then built leader capability to hold these conversations at the leading edge of the transformation effectively. After all, the primary place transformation happens (or doesn´t) is through the conversations of line managers.

Clarifying the future of leadership at the frontier

Transformation is fast for everyone; but nowhere is it faster and more opaque than for the tech giants at the very frontier of AI. In that context, how do you develop leaders for the future?

Through extensive conversations with executives and tech gurus, literature reviews and the partnership of one of the leading talent assessment consultancies in the world, developed an executive success profile for the top 200 leaders of this iconic company. This defined what the future of executive leadership would require in a BANI world over the coming decade. It has enabled the organization to future-proof the development of current execs, as well as accelerating and diversifying the pipeline of leaders to thrive in an uncertain future.

Developing leaders in a way that sticks

To continue to grow and innovate, a shift and elevation of leadership was required in a major investment firm.

Designed a programme to develop their 30 most senior leaders, based on a needs analysis and in close partnership with the CEO and Global HRD. The program delivered results through a series of interactive group sessions over the years. The secret sauce of the programme wasn´t the content; it was the conversations which drove application. Following these sessions, each leader had one-on-one coaching to clarify next steps. Each leader held team discussions about their learnings, so expectations were transparent, and their teams could hold them accountable. The pulse results showed sustained and significant impacts on leader effectiveness; and innovation thrived.

Developing leaders while driving innovation

One of the key challenges in growing high potential leaders can be to expand perspectives and strategic insight beyond their current role; to ready them for future roles.

Designed and delivered business conferences for high potential leaders around the world. These were focused on exposing them to key strategic challenges, and inviting them to ‘hack’ on these with peers from across the business. These were hacks integrated with intense leadership development and feedback. Executives brought significant and pressing strategic challenges to the event. Working groups of high potentials, collaborated with executives and subject matter experts to unpick the challenge, and develop new and innovative proposals for the organization. Not only were these conversations great perspective expanding leadership experiences; they also generated many innovations for the business.

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Who is Tony anyway?

Tony Crabbe is a Business Psychologist who accelerates adaptation in a business and technological environment that just keeps speeding up and getting foggier. He applies the best psychological research to the very latest transformational challenges in a practical and creative way. Curating the conversations that matter to trigger a-has, generate energy and grow change capacity.

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