CONNECTING THE EXECUTIVE TEAM

 One executive team. Sometimes two companies. Who brings them together?

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Every engagement starts with discerning the true problem.


how i work




Three ways I work with executive teams

Executive team health assessment

Executive team health assessment

Executive team health assessment

 Is your leadership team working effectively as a team? I interview each executive, survey the team, and name what is working and where the team is stuck. You get a plain readout of the dysfunctions that cost you speed. 

Executive workshops and offsites

Executive team health assessment

Executive team health assessment

 I design and facilitate the session around what the assessment found, and how grow beyond there. One day or several, on site or away. Every session ends with decisions, owners, and dates. And a healthier team.

Leader assimilation

Executive team health assessment

Leader assimilation

 A new leader and their team need to learn each other fast. I facilitate a structured session built on six probing questions. The team is assigned a real challenge to solve. The team says what it needs, the leader responds, and both leave better aligned and with an action plan the team owns.

How it runs

Step 1:

  Assess. Interviews with each executive and a short team survey.

Step 2:

 Diagnose. A readout of strengths and fault lines, with the specific dysfunctions named.

Step 3:

 Intervene. A workshop or offsite designed around what we found, addressing the areas of dysfunction head on, and a plan to make the changes stick.

Also in this lane

  

  • Acquisition integration. I work on behalf of the executive team and alongside the senior leaders and teams on both sides, so two companies run as one.
  • Executive team formation and alignment. 
  • Executive team development: ongoing work on how the team decides, handles conflict, and holds itself accountable. 
  • Leadership transitions.
  • Change leadership for acquisitions and restructurings. 
  • Operating model redesign..

As Chief of Staff I designed and facilitated the formation of an executive leadership team and its operating mechanisms, including the first operating playbook. 

 As CHRO I partnered with the CEO, the executive team, and the PE sponsor on organizational health and leadership effectiveness. 

 As CHRO I led post-acquisition cultural and operational integration across eight global business units. 

Most engagements pair an assessment with a workshop or offsite.


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