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How I Work: Critical Leadership Transitions

Strategy to Behaviours

Defining the behaviours and actions required to successfully execute your strategy


The Challenge: You have a strategy, but turning it into reality feels elusive. Your leadership team may not be fully aligned on what it means in practice. Even when the direction is clear, you struggle to identify the specific behaviours that will make it happen. The gap between strategic ambition and operational execution remains frustratingly wide.


How I Help: I work with you to build leadership alignment and define the specific behaviours and actions required to execute your strategy successfully. Through structured discovery and leadership development, we uncover what needs to change in how people think, decide, and act to bring your strategy to life.


You might need this if:

  • You have a strategy but struggle to define what it means in practice
  • Your leadership team isn't aligned on priorities or execution
  • Leaders understand the strategic intent but can't translate it into action
  • You see inconsistency in how decisions are made across the operation
  • Strategic initiatives launch well but don't embed into daily work

Directive to Adaptive

Evolving from command-and-control leadership to enabling, empowering approaches that unlock team capability


The Challenge: The leadership style that got you here—decisive, directive, hands-on—isn't working anymore. Your operation needs more capability, more ownership, more adaptability. But shifting from directing to enabling feels risky, especially when performance pressure is constant.


How I Help: I work with leaders to evolve from command-and-control approaches to enabling, empowering styles that unlock team capability. This transition is practical, not philosophical—it's about developing the specific leadership behaviours that build capability in others while maintaining high performance.


You might need this if:

  • You're the bottleneck in too many decisions
  • Your team waits for direction rather than taking ownership
  • You know you need to delegate more but struggle to let go
  • You want to build capability but don't know where to start
  • Your business context has changed and requires a different leadership approach

Transition Navigation

Transition Navigation

Structured discovery work that helps leaders and organisations chart their path through major inflection points


The Challenge: You're at an inflection point. New role. New strategy. Organisational change. The pressure to deliver is immediate, but you need to understand the reality of what you're working with before you can chart the path forward.


How I Help: Through structured discovery work, I help you understand what's really happening, define where you need to be, and navigate the leadership journey to get there. This isn't a theoretical exercise—it's practical work that uncovers the cultural dynamics, capability gaps, and organisational realities that will determine your success.


You might need this if:

  • You've stepped into a new senior role and need to understand the terrain
  • Your organisation is facing significant strategic or cultural change
  • You know something isn't working but can't quite diagnose what
  • You need an outside perspective to validate what you're seeing


How We Work Together

Discovery

We start with structured conversations to understand your context, challenges, and what success looks like for you.


Design

Based on what we uncover, we design the right approach—whether that's leadership development work, transition navigation, or a combination.


Delivery

Through leadership programmes, discovery work, and ongoing mentoring, we work in partnership to create sustainable change.


My approach combines:

  • Two decades of operational leadership experience at Royal Mail Group
  • Practical expertise in Lean Six Sigma and World Class Manufacturing
  • Leadership development grounded in what actually works in demanding environments
  • Structured discovery methods that uncover reality, not platitudes

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