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Ensuring Leaders and their organisations Thrive

Drive High Performance and Sustainable Growth

Reach your Leadership potential with our Focus on High Performance

All of our developmental journeys are adapted to your specific needs and can be run for an individual or a team

“Leadership is Action not Position.”

Donald H McGannon

Super CEO

An unparalleled leadership development journey, specifically designed for CEOs and those preparing to step into the role for the first time, who aspire to reach the highest levels of leadership excellence and make a significant impact. This transformative experience empowers CEOs to become exceptional leaders akin to superheroes in the business world. Equipping you with extraordinary skills and strategies to overcome challenges and achieve remarkable success. This customisable journey along our proven pathway is tailored to your context and success.

Exemplar Focus Areas

  • Setting and communicating a Compelling Vision
  • Leveraging Networks
  • Creating a High Performance Culture
  • Recognising and Retaining Talent
  • Emotionally Controlled Decision Making
  • Leading Change

Elite Executive

Our elite executive journey is designed to provide comprehensive and advanced training to high-level executives, enhancing their leadership skills, strategic thinking abilities, and decision-making capabilities. We will unlock your potential as the complete corporate athlete.

Exemplar Focus Areas

  • Moving from player to Coach
  • Enterprise Leadership
  • Leading Teams
  • Developing High Performance
  • Seeing Opportunity in Chaos
  • Boardroom Performance

Leading through the Matrix

The prospect of Matrix Leadership is increasingly common in today’s corporate landscape. This requires a unique set of skills. Navigating complex organisational structures and leading through influence with multiple reporting lines can create ambiguity and conflicting priorities. All of which impact decision making capability and the ability to deliver the desired results. With training, feedback and deliberate action, Leaders can develop the necessary approach to thrive in a matrix environment.

Exemplar Focus Areas

  • Strong communication skills
  • Collaborative an open mindset
  • Influencing and negotiating skills
  • Adaptability and flexibility
  • Strategic thinking
  • Problem solving and decision-making
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Continuous learning and development

Moving on Up

Ensuring a smooth transition by preparing leaders for the evolving demands of each specific leadership level. Focusing on the required behaviours and skills for each leadership stage greatly enhances the individual leader’s overall effectiveness. Aligning all leaders’ actions with the company’s mission, vision and strategy, promotes improved decision-making, collaboration and overall success.

Exemplar Focus Areas

  • Leadership Levels
  • Coaching Skills for Leaders
  • Developing Resilience
  • Critical Decision Making
  • Enterprise Awareness
  • Bringing the Right Mindset

Positive Leadership 101

Positive leadership fosters a supportive work environment, inspiring and empowering individuals, and promoting the wellbeing and growth of the team and its members. It emphasises authenticity, empathy, collaboration and a growth mindset. Benefits include increased employee engagement, productivity and satisfaction. Positive Leaders build trust, create a sense of purpose, and nurture a culture of innovation and resilience; they recognise and appreciate their team members’ contributions, leading to higher morale and motivation. Positive Leaders create a Positive Ripple Effect, enabling individuals and organisations to thrive and make a meaningful impact.

Exemplar Focus Areas

  • Establishing the Foundations for Growth
  • Your Compelling Vision
  • Authenticity and Trust
  • Empathy and Compassion
  • Collaboration and Teamwork
  • Recognition and Appreciation
  • Resilience and Wellbeing
  • Positive Psychology Basics

Empowered Resilience

Empowered Resilience is not only the ability to bounce back, but to bounce back higher, stronger and better. Utilising strengths to overcome weaknesses and removing unwanted patterns, replacing them with chosen, effective behaviours. Our tried and tested processes come from the worlds of neuroscience, high performance sport, positive psychology, Stoicism, elite military units, emergency response teams and some of the most successful coaching and personal development training there is. Only bouncing back is a wasted opportunity for growth. Learn how to thrive during uncertainty as an individual and a team.

Exemplar Focus Areas

  • Resistance, Resilience and Antifragility
  • Overcoming Evolution
  • Clearer Perspectives
  • Handling Pressure
  • Turning Threat into Challenge
  • Utilising High Performance Habits

Active Onboarding

Ensure your new stars are shining bright the moment they join. Merely onboarding is something done for passengers, not for a valued member of the crew. Our Active Onboarding process is about integration; taking deliberate action, anticipating and proactively planning to ensure a valid contribution from day one. Ensuring your new hires feel valued and welcomed, giving them the clarity and support they need to perform with confidence. Allowing them to show why you hired them.

Exemplar Focus Areas

  • Providing Clarity
  • Countdown to Integration
  • Mapping the Journey
  • Instilling the Confidence to Perform
  • Joint Commitments
  • Integration Guides
  • Supporting the Supporters

Assessment & Benchmarking

Before embarking on an important journey, it is vital to know your start point to ensure you take the optimum path. Our assessment and benchmarking allows targeted development, individualised coaching and objective feedback. We take the time to establish the Ground Truth, creating the conditions for accurate self-evaluation alongside recognised strength and value assessments. With additional contextual application we are able to tailor recommended improvement action plans. Our benchmarking further benefits from our extensive data access from our sister Executive Search company.

Exemplar Focus Areas

  • Effective Task Mapping
  • Reducing Bias
  • Increasing Diversity
  • Predictive Validity
  • Development and Succession Planning
  • Consistency and Standardisation
  • Sustainability

“I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.” 

Seneca

Testimonials…

Chris does a masterful job of distilling the intricacies of leadership down to a critical truth. He also encourages everyone to view themselves as a potential leader because, as he reminds us, you do not have to be the best at any particular skill to excel as a leader. Most importantly, Chris reminds us that the evolution of our world has led us to a place where the keys to leadership in business as well as the military include flexibility, the freedom to maneuver, and mutual trust between leader and followers.

Lisa Petrilli,
Author of The Introvert’s Guide to Success in Business and Leadership

Andy helped us navigate the business from start-up to scaled- enterprise. He led several strategy sessions and galvanised the leadership around our vision, purpose and intention, laying out a critical path with behaviours to reflect our values and beliefs. We grew from 3 to 250, from zero revenue to 50 million in 5 years. MAT became the fastest growing, most profitable part of McLaren Technology Group, the “Jewel in the Crown”, as described by the Chairman and CEO of the Group. Andy provided independent advice and guided our leadership team through this period of rapid growth and a merger. This led to the creation of a new Board, which Andy helped us build, and a new strategy. To this date, no other Formula 1 business has been so successful at diversifying as well as MAT.

Geoff McGrath,
Founder and MD McLaren Applied Technology and former MD CK Delta

Chris has successfully delivered talks and training workshops for us on several occasions. He brings his impressive military leadership experiences to life whilst also making them easily accessible and relevant to anyone. His material draws on an eclectic mix of experience, knowledge and detailed research, and the messages are delivered in an uncomplicated, effortless style. He has a calm confidence and reassuring manner which makes for a compelling and thought-provoking experience. Highly recommended.

Michael Brooke,
Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) AFBPs
Former Head of Innovation for Global Markets at BNP Paribas

I have the great pleasure of working with Andy since 2017. He co-created, launched and has sustained our High-Performance journey and narrative. Partnering with me to enhance leadership strength and build an online educational / motivational platform to strengthen engagement. All this across 19 Countries and a team of 350+. One real difference that Andy’s leadership brought was an expansion in creativity; with my team getting noticed across the enterprise. Additionally, the work on resilience and balance was of great value during the pandemic; the programmes Andy set up with us on high performance really came into their own.

Michael Elliott,
Senior VP Gilead

Andy worked with me whilst we were creating a new Product, Creation and Delivery organisation to transform our ability to achieve global growth 2013-2018. We co-created a global transformation strategy and narrative, created an office for transformation and an in-house team to support Andy. He helped us co-create a high-performance leadership and team approach through 4 global architectures, cascaded down to the factory floor. All of this whilst new factories were being built and a new partnership with China negotiated. As a result, we achieved a level of clarity, energy, coherence and fun not previously seen; adopted high performance practices, witnessed significant behavioural shifts and accelerated productivity with greater collaboration cross-functions. In one architecture alone, we transformed our ability to deliver on time, saving millions per year. Andy’s unique style and vast experience helped us accelerate our performance at Jaguar Land Rover and realise exponential growth from 2013.

Bob Joyce,
former Executive Director of Engineering, Jaguar Land Rover

In 2016, Andy supported the growth of Wealth Wizards after series A investment. He helped set up a joint Board with LV, clarified the purpose, vision and helped establish our values. We co-created a strategy & plan and he coached our senior leaders to accelerate their performance and introduced company-wide high performance tools. Last year, he supported a bigger executive to refresh & realign for Series B investment. In sum, we grew from 40-80 people, moved into a new HQ, delivered more innovative products, doubled revenues within 2 years, & increased our valuation 600% (PWC, early 2020.) Our glass door score is 4.9/5 & our office vibe score increased from an average of 6 to 8/10.

Andrew Firth,
former CEO Wealth Wizards, and author of Making financial advice affordable and accessible to everyone.

Andy helped us co-create Vision 2021. This led to greater clarity and unity amongst the leadership team and governors on purpose and vision. Our confidence increased with a simple strategic plan. Decision-making and prioritisation markedly improved. The language we speak echoes the plan. We are crisper, more strategic and focused. We are more accountable. There is greater clarity amongst the wider staff on our vision and purpose, and more support and engagement from parents and pupils. Prospective parents like our sense of direction. In the last 2 years we have enjoyed record application numbers, record examination results, national sporting success, national music success and overcome tough operational challenges. The school is in great shape.

Gus Locke,
Headmaster Warwick School, 2018, now CEO of Haberdashers Foundation.

Andy’s versatile approach to building high performance teams was used for a range of interventions: pioneering McLaren’s first ever product design lab, to our first pro-cycling team and to mentoring on a 1:1 level to help our leaders and teams navigate uncertainty and complexity. Whether it’s a quick call, coffee or several months plotting a strategic journey, his personable, pragmatic approach and ability to get to the nub of an issue fast, leaves you inspired and ready to push on with confidence. Andy is truly unique. His life experiences and approach puts Andy in a different field and class to the many other strategy and performance management options to business leaders.

Duncan Bradley,
CTO Watt Bike and former Head of Health and Wellness at McLaren.

The coaching Andy did on leadership and personal resilience in 2019 was timely given the challenges that evolved through the pandemic, which challenged every part of my experience, skill and resilience to lead a global team through an unprecedented period. As a result, I felt that I was in front of the crisis, not in it.

Managing Director,
American Merchant Bank