The purpose of our Leadership Transitions work is to turn the challenge of transition into territory for growth. Our goal is to ensure that personal growth and organisational growth are tightly linked.
Our transitions work is intended for anyone who has or is about to take on a challenging new leadership role, including CEOs, business and functional leaders, and high potential leaders about to step into enterprise leadership roles.
Our observation is that while some organisations help their leaders work through the strategy and tactics of leadership transitions, not many take advantage of transitional space to help their leaders understand themselves better, strengthen their confidence, and elevate their ability to make a significant impact on the organisation’s evolution. In the words of one global leadership development professional, “we promote our senior executives into complex roles in which the chances of failure, even catastrophic failure, are high. It’s our duty to help them use the tension of these transitions to grow.“
Our transitions work includes five essential ingredients to developing the inner coherence that helps leaders deal with the complex challenge of role transition. Each of these ingredients are drawn from the most meaningful research into how our minds, hearts and guts tend to work when we step into transition’s chaos:
Our Transitions work is structured but flexible.
Structure comes from our extensive research into transitions and post-transitions growth. This research integrates what we know from our own exploration into leadership transitions with insights from clinical practice in a wide variety of schools of psychology. Our main sources for our leadership transitions practice include evolutionary psychology (how we tend to act when we are threatened by change), existential psychology (our sources of anxiety, especially during life transitions), narrative psychology (how our narrative-making mechanisms can help us reconstruct our self-image), and post-trauma growth (how dramatic transitions can inspire significant personal growth).
Flexibility comes with our understanding that your stories are unique to you. So is your context. How we work through the different stages of post-transition growth (PTG) will depend on the outcomes you’re after and the pace of change that is useful for you.