Transformational Leadership
Simply put, we strive to co-create with our clients the most transformative—and so effective—leadership development programs on the planet.
We aim to transform how your leaders sense, feel, think, act, interact, relate, communicate, collaborate, and innovate—while we support them as a group to unlock innovation opportunities, land significant team and culture change, and drive forward business transformation.
We do this through designing and delivering experiential, customized, and exceptional transformational leadership development journeys—our flagship leadership experiences—tailored to your unique culture, industry, history, strategy, and ambitions.
“Huge impact! Outstanding framework and powerful tools.”
President, Kellogg Company, North America
The Next Generation Of Leadership Development
Most leadership programs fail to deliver the results promised—and are locked in an outdated training/education model that fails to deliver business impact.
With our origins in strategy and innovation consulting, we have researched, innovated, and tested over many years a genuinely new approach to leadership development designed to equip leaders with everything they need to solve the challenges they face.
Link Leadership Development To Business Growth
Use your leadership development investment to land tangible business impact through breakthrough innovations, teamwork changes, or culture change wins during the program
Build The Capabilities For Leading Change, Transformation & Innovation
Equip leaders with the skills and mindset they need to drive forward necessary change, innovation & business transformation projects that keep your organization match fit for the future
Radically Improve Sense-Making, Decision-Making & Prioritization in VUCA
Deploy state-of-the-art frameworks for sense-making and decision-making in VUCA realities to help leaders strategize and prioritize resources to drive inclusive and sustainable growth
Tailor Interventions To Fit Your Culture & Accelerate Your Ambitions
Leverage human-centered design to optimize your program for rapid trust and traction and design it to move your leadership team and culture toward more coherence, resonance, and strategic success
Unlock Trust, Energy & Creativity Without Losing Accountability
Boost emotional intelligence, authenticity, kindness, trust, effective communication, and psychological safety without losing accountability and striving for excellence
Provide Actionable & Science-Driven Leadership Tools & Theory
Drive concrete behavior change with tools and theory leaders can trust that are derived from the latest brain, behavioral, complexity, consciousness, and contemplative sciences
Personalize Programs To Meet The Needs Of Each Leader
Meet every leader where they are at and accelerate their development according to their specific challenges, needs, and unique patterns
Rapidly Unlock Growth & Transformation Mindsets
Provoke mindset upgrades and challenge complacency, assumptions, biases, and cynicism to unlock latent potential for innovation and outsized returns
Develop Your Leaders “In The Flow Of Work”
Support your leaders to grow and change on the job in the micro-moments where leadership transformation plays out with peer-to-peer coaching, self-managed toolkits, and daily leadership practices
Go Beyond Education To Drive Momentum & Transformation
Leverage the power of truly transformative in-person experiences that unleash energy, collaboration, and concrete change—along with cost- and carbon-effective virtual interventions, tools/toolkits, and digital engagement
“The most useful and challenging leadership program I’ve been on—and I’ve been on a lot in 30 years!”
COO, Syngenta AME
Our Experience In Leadership Development
100,000+ leaders developed
250+ leadership development programs
200+ leadership capabilities
100+ takeaway tools
“A pronounced and profound impact. Exceptional.”
CEO, HSBC Africa
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“A wake-up call for every leader to become a truly transformational leader today for a better tomorrow!”
Head Of Marketing, Alfa Laval
See What Our Leadership Development Programs Can Look & Feel Like
“Amazing. Really eye-opening and inspirational.”
Regional GM, Zalando
Master The Inner & Outer Games
Of Transformational Leadership
“Amazing, amazing feedback from our global leaders!”
HR Director EMEA, Intel
Examples Of Previous Customized
Leadership Development Programs
Unilever
Global Multinational FMCG Company
Design a scaleable leadership development and culture change program to unlock collaboration, empowerment, and innovation/experimentation in the top 10,000 leaders worldwide upskill HR Business Parrners to spread the customized transformational tools
Smucker's
Global FMCG Company (North America Division)
Design with the Senior Leadership Team and deliver across the USA a program to unlock each leader's leadership purpose of the petfoods division and connect it with the purpose of the business/brands
Intel
Global High-Tech Company, EMEA
Design and deliver across multiple years a pan-European program for senior leaders across 20+ countries to develop next-level and digital-first leadership capabilities (from self-leadership to storytelling) to compete against new and more agile competitors
HSBC
Global Bank International Division
Design and deliver a program to build the capacity of 30+ HSBC Group CEOs to lead breakthrough innovation in their countries and regions whilst developing their relational intelligence and leadership capabilities to resolve interpersonal and cross-functional conflicts
VMware
High Tech Company (China Region)
Design and deliver experiential leadership and innovation program to reduce interpersonal conflicts, increase senior leadership team collaboration, and unlock regional business transformation.
Zalando
Tech Company (Global)
Design and deliver highly-experiential leadership and innovation program to harness Artificial Intelligence across all functions aimed at emerging leaders and top talent.
Walmart/Asda
Major Retailer (UK Division)
Design and deliver various transformational leadership programs to engage and empower different talent bands across middle management and senior leadership focused on innovation, creativity, and digital transformation.
Kellogg's
Global FMCG Company (EMEA)
Design and deliver a leadership program for the executive leadership team to shift culture, mindsets, and behaviors towards agility and psychological safety.
Syngenta
Multinational Agri-Science Company (Middle-East & Africa Division)
Design and deliver a transformational leadership program for the top 40 to unlock transformational leadership, deepen self-awareness and self-mastery, and radically improve interpersonal communication, trust, and emotional safety.
AbbVie
Pharms & Life Sciences (Global)
Design and deliver an entirely virtual transformational leadership program for AbbVie's Medical Affairs Directors globally, blending virtual masterclasses, weekly digital engagement, and our peer-to-peer leadership coaching.
“Brilliant theory and insights on leadership. The value of the transformation tools was spot on. Thank you!”
Senior Vice-President, SAP
Leverage 8 Powerful Interventions That Drive
People & Business Transformation
Each leadership program or journey that we design and deliver draws upon these powerful innovations in human and organizational development, individual and group coaching, and change management.
By integrating strategic, innovation, teamwork, and culture change activities and by helping leaders change their mindset and behaviors during each program, we turn leadership development from a cost center to a profit center.
State-Of-The-Art Human Development Framework With Deep Design
Cutting-Edge Self-To-System™ Leadership Thinking & Masterclasses
Experiential & Immersive Transformational Workshops
Breakthrough Strategy, Innovation, Teamwork and/or Culture Projects
Empowering Take-Away Tools & Self- & Peer-Powered Toolkits
Transformative Leadership Circles & Transformational Exec Coaching
Life-Changing Embodied Leadership Practices
Generative Teamwork Interventions & Group Engagement
“Switch On Leadership’s transformational leadership framework is very inspiring and impressive. It stimulated our senior leaders to rebuild momentum and align as one team.”
SVP, VMware
The Four Spirals Of Transformational Leadership
In Our Self-To-System™ Curriculum
We use various diagnostics and design techniques to co-create with you a seamless journey focusing on your choice of leadership topics ranging from self-transformation to systemic change.
Together, informed by your leaders’ needs and the needs of management, we choose elements from the four spirals within our Self-to-System™ leadership curriculum:
Spiral 1: Leading Self
Building Self-Efficacy & State Mastery
Developing Emotional & Interoceptive Intelligence
Metacognition & Transforming Biases & Beliefs
Changing Behavior & Building Habits
Mastering Resilience & Sustained High Performance
Leveraging Trauma-Informed Personal Leadership
Managing Time, Attention & Energy
Amplifying Agency & Growth Mindsets
Harnessing Leadership Archetypes & Sub-Personalities
Self-Directing Leadership Breakthroughs & Development
Spiral 2: Leading Others
Harnessing Presence, Attunement & Empathy
Active Listening & Responsible Sharing
Cultivating Team Receptivity, Trust & Reciprocity
Using Clear & Calm Communication
Managing & Renegotiating Agreements
Enacting High-Performance Delegation
Motivating Different Kinds Of People
Leveraging Transformational Coaching
Repairing Relationships & Resolving Conflicts
Managing Effective Boundaries
Spiral 3: Leading Organizations
Making Sense Of Complexity
Leveraging Foresight & Future Insight
Challenging Organizational Biases & Assumptions
Developing Vision & Strategy
Making Strategic Decisions
Mastering Strategic Prioritization
Fostering Belonging & Psychological Safety
Innovation & Creative Problem-Solving
Unlocking Diversity, Dignity & Inclusion
Nurturing Adaptive & Developmental Cultures
Spiral 4: Leading Systems
Unlocking Purpose, Sustainability & Social Impact
Leading From Truth, Transparency & Trust
Cultivating Wisdom, Values & Morality
Wielding & Distributing Power Wisely
Inspirational Storytelling & Developing Executive Presence
Influencing Change Through Ethical Persuasion
Finding Alignment, Resonance & Coherence
Leading Collaborations & Partnerships
Leading Systemic Change
Thinking & Leading Regeneratively
“Uniquely combine deep systemic thinking, an expert knowledge of human behavior, and a strong creative flair. And lots of fun to work with!”
Director of Change, WWF