Leadership Builders and Strengtheners
1. Enhancing their abilities to identify and seize potential / opportunities
We help people strengthen their capacity to spot and act on opportunities – to see what others might overlook and turn potential into progress.
This includes…
- Developing reflective habits that encourage regular pause, learning, and deeper insight.
- Creating environments that foster high-quality thinking, curiosity, psychological safety and open dialogue.
- Building a work-in-progress / growth mindset, where work-in-progress is embraced and learning never stops.
- Addressing barriers that block the ability to see emerging possibilities or hidden risks.
- Using lenses, AI, and technology to expand awareness and uncover new perspectives.
- Exploring different perspectives, looking beyond familiar viewpoints to uncover deeper insights, fresh ideas, and richer understanding
- Cultivating creativity and foresight skills to imagine and shape what’s next.
- Exploring how the future of work and life could be – new industries, new jobs, new ways of living and working.
- Prioritising and planning which opportunities to pursue and which challenges to tackle first.
2. Developing and strengthening their Leadership Core
We help people cultivate their Leadership Core — the command centre, engine, and fuel that powers a purposeful and fulfilling life.
This work focuses on developing three essential components: Self-Leadership, Core Capabilities & Behaviours, and Core Support & Resources.
Self-Leadership
At the heart of strong leadership is self-awareness – understanding who you are, what drives you, and how you show up in the world. We help people deepen that understanding and strengthen their ability to lead themselves with intention, authenticity, and balance.
We help people with the following:
Defining a personal brand identity
Clarifying what they stand for, the unique value they bring, and their key differentiators.
Understanding and managing presence
Using voice, body language, and energy to create the desired impact.
Building and shaping reputation
Aligning actions and words to build trust and credibility.
Exploring formative influences
Understanding how their background, environment, and experiences shape their worldview.
Managing self-concepts
Developing confidence, self-efficacy, compassion, esteem, and a grounded sense of identity.
Recognising strengths and vulnerabilities
Learning to harness both for growth and authenticity.
Clarifying values, beliefs, and mindsets
Including identifying and overcoming self-limiting beliefs.
Understanding personality patterns
Becoming aware of traits and defence mechanisms that influence behaviour.
Understanding and developing their intelligences
Expanding awareness and skill across the full spectrum of human intelligence (from cognitive to emotional).
Caring for overall wellbeing
Strengthening physical, emotional, and mental health to build resilience.
Gaining deep insight into what truly drives them
Their personal and professional needs, aspirations, values, and sources of motivation.
Discovering the knowledge, skills, and capabilities that matter most
The ones to cultivate in education, career, and life to unlock potential and purpose.
Exploring the future they want to help design, build and contribute towards
Defining purpose and vision
Crafting a clear life and career direction that aligns with what matters most.
Designing balance and blend
Reflecting on and creating the blend of priorities that leads to a fulfilling life.
Exploring career paths and routes
Including different levels of seniority and proficiency.
Identifying and designing ideal roles and environments
Aligning strengths and passions with opportunities for impact.
Making big life and career decisions
The decisions that shape their lives and impact those around them.
Setting SMART goals and objectives
Spanning success, wellbeing, and positive contribution.
Creating agile strategies and plans
Ensuring they’re desirable, feasible, and viable in real-world contexts.
Securing the right resources
Leveraging both internal and external support to bring plans to life.
Executing with focus and flexibility
Overcoming barriers and using enablers effectively.
Managing competing demands
Balancing time, energy, and priorities across life’s many roles.
Reviewing progress and performance
Reflecting on results and assessing whether current roles remain the right fit.
Navigating life transitions
Adapting smoothly to new chapters and emerging stronger through change.
Dealing with loss and grief
Navigating the deep waves of loss and the journey through grief.
Building resilience
Learning to “bounce forward” from challenges, setbacks, and failures.
Embracing change
Seeing evolution not as disruption but as a natural part of growth and leadership.
Core Capabilities & Behaviours
These are the essential, transferable skills that power performance and impact across every role in life and work. We help clients develop and strengthen these capabilities so they can think more clearly, act more decisively, and connect more effectively with the world around them.
While there are many, below are some of the core capabilities and behaviours we help people cultivate:
Enhancing thinking abilities
Developing sharper analytical, problem-solving, creative, and systems-thinking skills to approach challenges from multiple perspectives. Increasing their ability to identify and address biases and thinking errors.
Building foresight and innovation
Learning to anticipate change, imagine possibilities, and design creative responses to emerging opportunities.
Exploring the unthought
Surfacing overlooked ideas and perspectives that deepen the quality, breadth, and diversity of thinking.
Being the best possible thinking partner
Helping the clients become a great thinking partner to the stakeholders in their lives
Strengthening decision-making
Cultivating clarity, confidence, and sound judgment in complex or uncertain situations.
Mastering time and energy management
Improving focus, productivity, and balance by managing time, attention, and energy more effectively.
Developing learning agility
Understanding how they learn best, embracing discomfort, and turning practice into progress.
Running purposeful experiments
Designing and testing small, actionable experiments to increase success, wellbeing, and positive impact.
Building powerful relationships
Learning to initiate conversations, build trust, expand networks, and understand what strengthens or erodes connection.
Expanding cultural awareness
Recognising and valuing cultural differences to collaborate more effectively across boundaries and contexts.
Having courageous conversations
Developing the confidence and tools to navigate challenging, important, and high-stakes discussions.
Growing political savviness
Understanding dynamics of influence and navigating organisational systems with integrity and insight.
Becoming an effective storyteller and communicator
Sharing ideas with clarity, tailoring messages to audiences, and inspiring through narrative.
Strengthening delegation skills
Both delegating effectively and working productively when delegated to.
Developing influence, persuasion, and negotiation
Learning how to shape outcomes and build alignment while maintaining trust.
Becoming proactive and self-starting
Taking initiative, spotting opportunities, and driving action without waiting for direction.
Owning outcomes
Taking full accountability for actions, commitments, and results.
Acting with courage and bravery
stepping forward despite uncertainty, speaking up when it matters, and standing firm in one’s values.
Core Support & Resources
No one leads – or thrives – alone. Every leader’s core is strengthened by the people, technologies, and tools that surround them. It’s about intentionally building a supportive ecosystem – one that challenges you to grow, inspires you to aim higher, and equips you with the resources to deliver your best.
We help people to:
Reflect on and develop their personal support team
Identifying and engaging mentors, coaches, peers, champions, and wellbeing experts who can guide, challenge, and sustain them.
Leverage technology and AI effectively
Designing a personal digital operating model that amplifies performance, enhances focus, and extends their capacity to think and act.
Harness the power of digital tools
Using data, analytics, and intelligent systems to uncover insights, improve decision-making, and accelerate progress.
Build and activate meaningful networks
Connecting with others across roles, industries, and perspectives to exchange ideas, create opportunities, and expand impact.
3. Being even better in their roles, relationships, tasks and activities in life
Every person has the capacity to grow – to become even better in the many roles, relationships, and responsibilities that make up their life. What sets exceptional people apart is their proactiveness, curiosity, and determination to keep evolving – to show up with greater intention and impact in everything they do.
We help people become the best they can possibly be across the full spectrum of their lives – whether that’s as a spouse, parent, leader, manager, teammate, mentor, or friend.
This work involves helping people to:
Explore what ‘great’ looks like in a given role – identifying the key knowledge, skills, qualities, experiences, and resources that define excellence, then assessing where they stand and mapping the steps to get there.
Identify and develop essential sub-roles and skill-building steps that can be applied across multiple primary roles — for example, serving as a coach (thinking partner), tutor, mentor, facilitator, or ‘practice ninja’ who helps others strengthen and refine their skills.
Build trust and respect – the foundations of all strong roles and relationships.
Identify what’s working and what’s not – surfacing challenges to address and opportunities to seize.
Set and align clear expectations – ensuring shared understanding with stakeholders and teams.
Get crystal clear on priorities – focusing energy where it matters most.
Understand and engage stakeholders – understanding needs, perspectives, and dynamics, and handling conflict or disagreement constructively.
Understand the systems they operate within – from organisations to industries, communities, and the wider world – and how to work effectively within them.
Develop deep role-specific, professional, and industry-focused knowledge, skills, and capabilities to enhance expertise and effectiveness in their field.
Strengthen core business acumen by building advanced knowledge, practical skills, and strategic capabilities that drive organisational success.
Set SMART objectives – for both individual and collective success.
Solve problems and make timely decisions
Create robust, agile strategies and plans – that are tested, aligned, and ready for execution.
Delegate and deliver effectively – ensuring plans translate into meaningful action.
Understand what peak performance looks like – and what they personally need to operate at their best.
Effectively, manage and operate within highly volatile and uncertain environments.
Adapt, change, and evolve – leaning into change as an opportunity to grow, transform, and thrive, rather than something to resist. Turning uncertainty into momentum and resistance into readiness.
Have courageous conversations – addressing important or difficult topics with honesty and respect.
Elevate performance conversations – creating open, constructive, and accountable dialogue.
Address underperformance compassionately – rebuilding trust, commitment, and follow-through.
Spot opportunities for greater success, wellbeing, and positive impact – both individually and collectively.
Prepare for what’s next – whether it’s a promotion, a new challenge, or a career transition – by planning, reflecting, and stepping forward with confidence.
You’ve got one shot at life
Maximy it!
Discover how we can help you and/or your organisation with your leadership journey to enhance your impact today.