A Leader you can depend on
Executive Presence and Leadership
Problem: The CEO was known for his exceptional decision making ability, deep knowledge of the business and a way of shutting down dialog, limiting the problem solving ability of his top tier team. He was at risk of losing top talent and producing inferior business results. He thought that's what leadership looked like.
Solution: Working with the Neustadt Consulting team we assessed the leaders' strengths and areas to develop, looked at the ways he was comfortalbe and credible and ways he wasn't. We worked with the CEO to connect with his appetite new ideas, bigger strategies and more interesting challenging ways of using meeting time. Working in a focused way on his presentation of ideas, questions, stating unknowns in high level meetings, we started to see real progress. Others started to sit up and take notice as well. His team started to interact differently and the Board of Directors started to notice the results. The CEO and his team created an agressive strategic plan that could only be acheived with all the players bringing their best to the table. They continue to challenge each other to define their core issues and give each other truthful feedback and problem solve together.