Leaders today need help.

Standing at the intersection of Leadership, Communications, Strategy and Positioning, it is clear that the magnitude and complexity of today’s noise is unmatched. 

Engaging stakeholders effectively in this sea of noise is incredibly difficult, and most leaders don’t get the candid and nuanced feedback that enables them to elevate their performance — all at a time when the voice and behavior of a leader carry more weight than ever.

In the face of this, do you have the clarity of narrative that success, and your constituents, demand? If you don’t, or if you’re just not sure, help is available.

What We Do

At the intersection of Leadership, Strategy, Positioning and Communications sits Leadership Clarity

We bring this to life by defining your Leadership Narrative.

Our Approach

There are Six Factors that together influence and shape the Leadership Narrative:

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    Context Drivers

    What are the primary forces shaping both your current state and organizational future?

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    Stakeholder Dynamics

    What is the map of your priority stakeholders, and the current and desired perceptions that will shape your collective success?

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    Strategic Intent

    What is your organization’s strategy, and does it define the basis on which you will successfully compete?

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    Change Agenda

    Is there clarity around your “Point A” and “Point B” and what must happen to get there?

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    Brand, Culture & Values

    How should the organization’s Brand, Purpose, Culture and Values influence the approach?

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    Leadership Identity

    Who are you as a leader – not just your capabilities and leadership style, but you as a person … your motivations, blind-spots, vulnerabilities?

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    The Six Factors

    Context Drivers > Stakeholder Dynamics > Strategic Intent > Change Agenda > Brand, Culture & Values > Leadership Identity

Those factors are applied through a four-phase process:

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    Understanding the Forces

    robust and systemic analysis

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    Distilling the Imperatives

    interpreting the defining contours

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    Crafting the Narrative

    finding resonance and cohesion

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    Envisioning the Activation

    putting the work into action

The leadership clarity journey is about understanding those forces, synthesizing and distilling the emerging imperatives, and then crafting the leadership narrative required to improve the performance of the leader and their organization. You have to change what people think if you are to change what they do. This is what we help leaders address.

We do not develop strategy, create your operational change management plan, or identify your culture or values. We work alongside you – employing your building blocks – to uncover and sharpen your leadership narrative. At that point, we can then help envision how the narrative might best be activated given an organization’s stakeholders, culture, pain points, potential channels, time line, and priorities.  

Leadership clarity is not optional … it’s essential. Without it, employees are not aligned and engaged, and stakeholders do not hear — let alone understand — where you are going. Effective Boards are focusing more on its importance, and demanding it. Leaders used to face less noise, fewer stakeholders, and more autonomy; the challenges, and their complexity, will only increase.

Having the right Leadership Narrative is an imperative that magnifies the power of the network and of human potential. It can be a critical catalyst for clarity. It does not replace all of the hard work that goes into being a successful leader moving forward, but it does enable the pace, scope and impact of progress.

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