Case studies in leadership and human performance
Partnerships in energy, professional services, healthcare and other high-stakes environments.
How do you unify multiple training providers into one coherent leadership programme?
A global standards- and safety-critical organisation risked its multi-supplier leadership programme fragmenting across seven cohorts.
How do you develop leaders at scale while managing a generational workforce shift?
A European defence manufacturer of 10,000+ staff across five countries faced an ageing workforce while scaling up.
How do you lift employee engagement and customer experience under public scrutiny?
A UK regional transport operator faced sustained public, regulatory and customer pressure.
How do you turn early-career professionals into confident leaders who deliver real results?
A state-owned national energy organisation needed to accelerate early-career talent into capable leaders.
How do you move from fragmented training to one enterprise-wide leadership system?
A large North American upstream energy company was stuck with fragmented, role-specific training.
How do you embed one leadership approach across 400 managers?
A European energy supplier needed a consistent approach to leadership and communication organisation-wide.
How do you break down silos in a large government agency?
A large government security agency across EMEA and the US struggled with siloed working.
How do you build a succession pipeline of executive-ready leaders?
A global insurer needed to assess and develop around 150 high-potential senior managers for executive roles.
How do you merge two leadership cultures after an acquisition?
A bank in Asia-Pacific needed to merge two cultures into one leadership practice after an acquisition and reorganisation.
How do you align a dispersed senior team when local and global priorities clash?
A global bank’s EMEA senior team was misaligned under a decentralised European structure, wrestling with “club versus country” commitment tensions.
How do you bring company values to life for a senior executive board?
A global bank wanted to bring its organisational values to life at senior executive board meetings.
How do you design a high-impact graduate programme for a global cohort?
A global bank needed an impactful development programme for a diverse, multilingual, multinational graduate audience.
How do you re-engage employees globally through CSR and development?
A global bank in 40+ countries struggled with workforce disengagement.
How do you design a world-class executive retreat that develops top leaders?
A global luxury hotel group wanted an ambitious event to develop and incentivise its top leadership.
How do you get a competitive sales team to collaborate?
A global HR-services firm needed its EMEA sales teams to work more collaboratively rather than in silos.
How do you build team resilience in hybrid and remote working?
A global humanitarian organisation struggled to manage personal and team resilience in hybrid working.
How do you integrate two company cultures after a merger?
A UK insurer faced cultural integration challenges following a merger.
How do you turn a complacent culture into a high-performance one?
A UK insurer suffered from complacency and lacked a performance-oriented culture.
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- How do you shift a leadership culture from performance management to coaching and empowerment?
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- How do you improve safety culture across a whole drilling fleet?
- How do you strengthen safety decision-making for drilling operators in high-risk environments?
- How do you align leadership behaviour with strategy execution across locations?
- How do you rebuild leadership and strategy after a business downturn?
- LeanUp: Converting Lean Investment into Measurable Productivity and Engagement
- How do you build leadership and safety capability consistently across 80+ countries?
- How do you develop emerging energy leaders to handle uncertainty and disruption?
- How do you restart a stalled Lean programme and boost manufacturing productivity?
- How do you build psychologically safe, high-performing teams under extreme pressure?
- How do you align partners around strategy and double the size of a professional-services firm?
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- How do you drive employee adoption of a new enterprise system?
- How do you deliver leadership development that sticks across multiple sites in a complex market?
- How do you make executive MBA leadership learning experiential?
- How do senior public-sector leaders keep credibility in highly political environments?
- How do you make communication consistent across sales and service teams?
- How do you give a time-pressured executive board fresh insight into its leadership?
- How do healthcare teams make better decisions under pressure?
- How do you speed up digital product launches at scale?
- How do you pivot a traditional support organisation to a hybrid model?
- How do you help researchers turn their work into real-world impact?
- How do you change a whole company’s culture to embrace new technology?
- How do you combine leadership development with community engagement?
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