Off-site design and facilitation
Get the most out of your off-sites with an agenda that ensures you make wise decisions on your top priorities and grow trust between the team members.
Individual executive coaching
Improve the quality of your interactions on the executive team and beyond.
Executive team revamp
Speed up execution of top priorities.
Increase quality of decision-making (including big or contentious decision facilitation).
Improve trust and team dynamics - work together to run the business, rather than operating like separate silos.
ABOUT Me
Clients typically say the following about why they hire me:
Intuitive – very quickly picks up on and figures out how to improve team, organization and business dynamics
Pragmatic – no-nonsense approach – focuses on what you can actually get done
Courageous – tells you what you need to hear that others aren’t telling you - and might be hard to hear
Funny – makes coaching, team meetings – even contentious discussions – amusing
Knows what she’s talking about – 20 years of experience with CEO’s and Exec teams of Fortune 100 organizations and successful Start Ups. 10 years of partnership with Ivy League Business School professors in the US and elite universities in the UK.
For more detail about my background and experience - check out my LinkedIn Profile:
Executive team clients across most industries: tech, finance, media, pharma, design/ manufacturing and law including mature organizations and start ups. Example clients that can be named: Intel, Wiley, Lexis Nexis, Dunkin Donuts, News International, War Gaming and Deutsche Boerse/ MNI.
““Elspeth developed and implemented a strategy to engage a highly skeptical and entrenched group of senior managers to not only contemplate change but detail out the high-level approach. She is an excellent listener and communicator who tailors her approach and message so it can be heard without glossing over hard messages. We are deeply grateful to Elspeth for her partnership in shaping and driving our massive transformation program.””
““She’s a team whisperer!””
““We were behind budget - now we’re not. The only thing that changed was the work we did with Elspeth.””
““She deftly navigated the egos, characters and peculiarities of our firm and got us to talk about and more importantly act on, the “elephants in the room”.””
Increase your Executive Team decision-making quotient
A practical, real-world, lively training program to improve your individual and collective ability to make and follow through on the decisions that will ensure your organization achieves success in the current market conditions and innovates to be successful in the next... and the next.
Increase the quality of dialogue
- Get better at listening, asking good questions and expressing your opinion in a way that others can hear.
- Understand and learn skills to respond to each other's prefered archetypes.
- Face up to and resolve any tensions or "elephants in the room" that otherwise get in the way of frank and exploratory dialogue.
Increase the quality of the decision process
- Jeff Bezos has banned PowerPoint from meetings. He's on to something.
- Get better at:
- defining the problem,
- creating parameters for the discussion,
- assigning roles,
- confirming the decision,
- following through.
increase the quality of INNOVATION & creativity
- Make the most of the two brain systems: Gut and Reason (otherwise, as per the work of Nobel prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman, Gut wins but disguises itself as Reason!)
- Rewire the outdated shortcuts your brain and the team wants to make that tend to blind us to what it will take to respond to the disruption in our markets.
