With 50 years of expertise, we identify and develop the leaders who will shape your future. As business psychologists we blend our knowledge of what great leadership looks like with understanding your business context and challenges.
We do this by defining what leadership capabilities organisations need, assessing leaders against these capabilities, and delivering ambitious acceleration programmes to ensure you hire and retain critical talent.
Find out how we assess and accelerate the right leaders for your tomorrow:
Organisational challenges we help solve
The context has shifted dramatically for leaders in recent years.
Business’ operating contexts look markedly different from a few years ago, but leaders are also facing new challenges. Be this mastering hybrid working, navigating wellbeing issues, integrating technological advancements, and understanding the impact of domestic and geopolitical issues. This has increased pressure on leaders and the need to do things differently.
Through the work we do with organisations we find that:
- Existing assessment processes don’t always measure the right things or consider organisational culture and fit.
- Organisations are changing and growing more rapidly than leaders can evolve.
- Assessment and development programmes struggle to accommodate both global and local context.
- Organisations do not know their ‘bench strength’ and struggle to develop ‘ready now’ successors.
- Leaders want to develop but don’t know how.
- Leaders and key successors move on due to lack of personalised development and investment.
Do you want your business to thrive and not just survive?
Our solution
Our Activate, Assess & Accelerate model forms the foundation of our approach across every assessment and development intervention we design and deliver.
This methodology was developed to enable us to truly embed a participant first approach, ensuring engagement and accountability. Central to our approach are the leaders we are working with.
We focus on their experience, ensuring that they are fully engaged with the process, take ownership throughout and therefore ensure that the assessment is a positive catalyst for development, as well as providing rich and meaningful organisational insights to aid decision making.
The organisations we’ve helped
We’ve helped unblock the talent pipelines of these leading organisations. For each we’ve tailored our approach to their context and priorities, delivering highly successful programmes both in person and virtually.
Functional talent: BAE Systems
Their problem: Did they have the bench strength needed to win business in an increasingly competitive marketplace?
Our solution: We developed and ran development centres simulating the future business and personal capabilities required. Our assessments gave individuals insight into their strengths and development priorities, as well as providing actionable insight for the functional leadership team.
Senior leaders: SAB Miller
Their problem: How would they enable their Country MDs to embrace the shifts in mindset and behaviour required for their new operating model to succeed?
Our solution: Using one of our benchmarked business simulations we enabled their MDs to experience and get feedback on how they would need to operate in an organisation requiring more collaborative, consumer centric behaviours.
Mid-level leaders: Philip Morris International
Their problem: Faced with the transformation of their entire business, which of their leaders were willing and able to lead that change?
Our solution: We aligned our approach to Philip Morris’s transformational attributes, and ran half-day developmental leadership assessments to activate and accelerate their leader’s development.
Emerging talent: Aberdeen Standard
Their problem: How would they develop their emerging talent as leaders of change rather than pure technical specialists?
Our solution: We designed a global programme to equip their emerging leaders with the leadership and management skills required to accelerate their contribution to business growth.
Talent acquisition: Britvic
Their problem: Needing to bring new senior talent in, who could they safely appoint with the capability to transform the organisation while fitting Britvic’s culture?
Our solution: Our experienced psychologists carried out deep dive interviews to assess whether the individuals had the critical leadership capabilities and personal qualities to be successful in Britvic.
Leadership potential: HSBC
Their problem: Which of their senior leaders really had the potential to succeed as a senior international manager?
Our solution: We carried out comprehensive assessments of leadership capability and potential, using behavioural observation, a deep dive interview and psychometric assessment.
