Leadership Advisory

Your Exec Committee and their direct reports will need to focus on the leadership needed for digital transformation. This is a whole-company initiative and covers organisational, behavioural and technical transformation. Your leadership is what makes the difference.

From Senior Leader to Executive: how to change your Language and your Leadership

From Senior Leader to Executive: how to change your Language and your Leadership

Discover how to move from managing a function to steering an organisation. This guide shows how to think long term, speak in financial terms, and act with a whole business view. You'll learn to influence beyond your remit, make decisive choices, and lead with enterprise clarity.

True North

True North

All change is about people. Success means bringing together and leading many more strands of engagement than is often appreciated. You need clarity on where and how to start, the talent needed and the cognitive capacity to balance the dependencies of transformation. Then you can see your True North.

Change is hard

Change is hard

Changing how your company operates is hard, but can be done. You must create a whole-company focus to empower your people to be self-directed, to major on the cross-functional business processes necessary to create ongoing customer value, and to innovate to stay relevant as the market changes.

Value Streams, Value Chains, and Strategic Differentiation: How Business Architecture Delivers Competitive Advantage

Value Streams, Value Chains, and Strategic Differentiation: How Business Architecture Delivers Competitive Advantage

Value streams deliver customer outcomes. Value chains create strategic advantage. Leaders who master both bridge strategy and execution, turning complexity into competitive edge. This guide shows how to shift from function-based silos to outcome-based architecture that delights customers.

How to Scale Leadership

How to Scale Leadership

Leadership doesn't scale through heroes. This article sets out ten ways to multiply leadership - from coaching cultures and psychological safety to clear pathways, strong networks, and measuring leaders by the successors they create, not just their output.

Building Trust: The Foundation of Effective Leadership

Building Trust: The Foundation of Effective Leadership

Trust does not happen by chance but is the result of deliberate behaviours. Leaders who show reliability, credibility and intimacy, while leading with empathy, humility and inclusion, build teams that innovate, take smart risks and stay resilient. Trust is the true competitive advantage.

Intelligence and the Future of Work

Intelligence and the Future of Work

Intelligence isn't uniquely human, it's any system processing information purposefully. From flint axes to AI, tools have extended our capabilities. Today's challenge: integrating AI into services effectively, redefining roles around human skills like empathy and judgement.

Reinventing Global Finance: From Back Office Control to Market-Oriented Ecosystem

Reinventing Global Finance: From Back Office Control to Market-Oriented Ecosystem

Financial ecosystems are evolving, with market-oriented strategies replacing traditional hierarchical structures, resulting in strategic partnerships, empowered teams, and instantaneous data insights - allowing navigation of today's complex challenges.