Big vision requires deep growth
We’ve coached dozens of leaders and change agents from six continents and across business, government and civil society. From grizzled executives and fast-track disrupters to impact investors and boundary-pushing scientists, what they share in common is a profound commitment to transforming themselves to be even more effective in pursuit of their deepest purpose. Step by step, we’ve accomplished that.
“As the CEO of a large social change organization working across 20 countries, I navigate complicated leadership questions each day. Barrett helps me build my skills to do this in both profound and practical ways. As a result of our work, I understand myself better and am able to take in the complexities across the whole, complex system that we work in. The result: More peace inside me and more progress for our organization.“
— Lois Quam, CEO, Pathfinder International
WHO
We work with a select group of senior leaders and global change agents each year. Typically, these are accomplished executives and leaders in their field who hunger for bigger and more meaningful impact in their organizations and the world. We also work with a handful of emerging leaders each year who are committed to significant social or environmental impact.
In rare circumstances, we support top executives facing exceptional internal or external challenges who must make significant behavioral, relationship, and performance changes, fast.
HOW
Deep change that results in significant, sustainable impact takes time. We work with leaders for 6-12 months up to several years. We identify and precisely focus on the highest impact areas for their development. These may be existing strengths in which they want to become world-class, blindspots that sabotage them, or new capacities to stretch into.
Through coaching and advisory, in-person and virtual observation, and a development plan that includes regular reflection and practice, leaders measurably shift both their inner and outer games to the next level.
Our approach to leadership development is holistic. We focus on how leaders think and decide, manage their emotions and energy, engage with their body, access their gut or intuition, and respond to shadow dynamics that undermine their performance. This integrated approach is what ensures deep and durable change.
WHAT
We support executives to achieve to their biggest vision and most important strategic initiatives while living healthy, balanced lives. At the heart of this is learning to: 1) Upgrade their inner game, and 2) successfully navigate complexity, uncertainty and rapid change.
Recent clients’ developmental areas have included courageous authenticity, systems thinking, innovation, visionary storytelling, intuitive insight, and team development.
Most leaders we partner with also choose to develop more than competencies and new behaviors. They use our time together to reflect upon and transform how they think and feel about themselves and their work, and how they engage in leadership. This often includes inquiry into their work purpose and core values, and pressure-testing whether they are in the right job, team or organization to accomplish their vision.
RESULTS
We guarantee improvement for leaders in their overall effectiveness as determined by their peers, their boss, their own perception and through highly-validated assessments. We closely track growth in their effectiveness across the most important leadership competencies and performance on key business metrics.
For leaders that want to go deeper, we also assess and track development on deep changes that are strongly correlated with leadership effectiveness in complex environments.
This includes their capacity to make complex decisions, the complexity of their leadership mental model, or the sophistication of their emotional intelligence.
After decades of doing this work, we are confident that those who whole-heartedly work with us can accomplish these profound changes and become significantly more effective at work and home, happier and healthier.
