How might we create organizational alignment—in a way that builds leadership capabilities & accelerates performance?
Approach:
Delivering results drives the need to shift ways of being and working together. This often requires learning new skills and adopting new beliefs. (e.g. What must our team believe to navigate the tension of competing and collaborating?) Building capabilities is done while doing the real work on key business priorities as well as through experiential learning (e.g. a wilderness expedition). Accordingly, partnerships are often grounded in the following principles:
- Designed to achieve performance outcomes
- Driven from the top
- Builds the leadership capabilities of executive committees, high potentials, and leaders from cross-functional teams
Partnering with leaders and their teams to:
- Create a compelling & shared strategic direction
- Overcome obstacles to execution
- Evolve organizational structure
- Unearth current ways of working together and create new ways (norms, agreements, beliefs, …) of partnering together
- Support the behavior change of individual team members
- Deepen relationships and trust among the team
What Clients say…
“Jamie’s partnership was invaluable. While at the Gates Foundation, I was responsible for accelerating and deepening the penetration of digital financial services in developing markets. Jamie and I collaborated together to transform the organizational structure, operating model, budgeting, cross-cutting processes, performance metrics, and governance of a financial inclusion trust. Following that work, I asked Jamie to lead a second organizational development project for the Executive Director and Board of another organization in a neighboring country. Jamie was a trusted consultant who helped us strengthen the effectiveness and impact of our partner organizations.“
—Janine Firpo, Founder and President SEMBA; former Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
“Jamie was a trusted advisor to the Board. While at DFID, I oversaw a portfolio of infrastructure, renewable energy, agriculture and urban development programmes. During that time, Jamie led a year-long organisational development project for one of our donor-funded Boards. His recommendations were thoughtful and practical, and they helped us strengthen the organizational structure, update the strategy, and improve governance. We extended Jamie’s contract twice. After the Board partnered with Jamie, the Executive Director of the organisation hired him. Jamie was trusted by the Board–and he was also deeply trusted by the organisation. Without a doubt, he helped us improve our support for financial inclusion.“
—Gillian Rogers, Team Leader, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Pakistan; former Team Leader, Economic Development, DFID